Ummm.. Stone ceiliing... uaaa.. stone floor.. comfy, warm bed. I'm not fucking getting out. Let's roll up in it.. boring. Hm? My boots are next to the bed. Oh well... I wonder how my swords are doing.

Rose willed her sword and saber out of the pocket space. In her left hand appeared the swords, as it should have, but in her right materialised a saber-mace with a white magic crystal at the end. Curious, the girl put down the sword, and swung the mace. As a small ripple appeared around the maces tip, Rose collapsed to the ground, panting for breath.

Fuck!! Breath in, breath out. God fucking damnit. Breath in, breath out. I guess.. I won't be using that bloody thing for now. Few more breaths.. I wonder if those twats have something to eat, this was goddamn exhausting.

Having collected herself, Rose fixed her clothes, hanged the sword in the sheat she pulled from the pocket space, and the mace back in there. Then while stretching and yawning she made her way to the office.

- Hey old man. You know where those two idiots are? I'm starved.

- I'm afraid Guild Masters won't come for a little while longer, I could share my breakfast with miss Rose.

Steven gestured for Rose to take a sit at Guild Masters desk, and put his plate, with some Wooden Golem salad on it, in front of the girl. After he came back to his sit, he looked at Rose enjoy herself, and got back to work while having a small smile on his face. After a few minutes there was a light knock at the door.

- Come in.

In came a tanned, stern looking medium height man, carrying the same meal Steven gave earlier to Rose, and two glasses of water. He put one in front of the girl, and the other and the meal in front of the secretary, afterwards he excused himself and left.

Rose looked at Steven questioningly, waving her right hand towards the door, while stuffing her face with food.

- That was one of our clerks, Norbert, he has the morning shift.

Rose shrugged, and focused back on the food. About an hour later, when bored girl was in the middle of trying to take apart the very immobile crystal cluster on Guild Masters desk, Jack and Cindy finally came in. Both looked rather sleep deprived, but energetic, and were discussing something while laughing.

- Hey Rose, everythings alright?

- Steve gave me his salad, but I'm still hungry.. Why won't the crystals move like they do on his desk?

- Ah.. You need to - said Jack while materialising a black robe-like coat with a blue shine to it onto himself - charge a little mana into them. Uhm.. They won't respond to people who aren't bound to them though.

- We could grab something to eat, while looking for travelling supplies for you. Come Rose.

Cindy wore a coat similar to Jacks, though hers had much dimmer blue light, and a little bit of red to it. While Cindy had light, black leather armour beneath her robe, Jack had simple white suit shirt, black slim pants, both wore similar long leather boots.

- Suuure!

- We will come back later to say our goodbyes...

- Hurry damnit!

Jack patted Rose who run up to them, on the head, and the three left. They went for about two hundred steps towards the Barking Dog, and stopped in front of a shop with a needle and thread signboard.

  They're going inside. I hope motherfuckers won't need me to turn of the music, it's a nice bloody tune. What are you opening your mouth at me for Jack? Caaan't hear you.. Oh, he's pointing to the corner with a stand. Another pale person... Oh, she brought some jackets.. What are those twats shooing her away for? Those were pretty. Eh? I will drown in this one! 

 - Yes, this should be good. She will grow into it. What do you think Jack?

 - Blue Bat hide - said Jack while looking at belts of all sizes - uhm.. does last a long time. With those... - he continued while pointing at the belts.

 - Sir, and madam thought of everything, I will attach them quickly.

 - Then we will come back to pick it up later, if you could also add some shirts and undergarments so she would have some change.

 - As a discount for the Guild Master, I will include them in the price for the jacket.

 - You are a - said Jack while smiling at the tailor - a dear Jannet.

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  Cindy waved at Rose to come, and the three left for the general shop on the other side of the street. Rose was again lost in her own world, paying minimal attention to the adults, but as they were leaving she waved around her sword and pointed at the very clear lack of one on her left.

  The smithy was around fifty steps further towards the Barking Dog. It was made from much darker stone than other buildings, and had an open front. Instead of a signboard. the entire space of the first floors wall was taken by pieces of metal golems, and a red shining skeleton of some wolf like creature.

 - Rose?

 - I'm listening, I'm listening. Can I get a half of a saber here?

 - Why a.. - said Jack, but didn't get to finish.

 - I'm not used to swinging any bloody longer ones.

 - Sir, ma'am, miss. I'm afraid I do not forge halfs of blades, but maybe a curved dag..

  Rose run into the smithy, and began shifting through a collection of blades on, and beneath the right wall. Jack and Cindy went in deeper to talk with the smith in the storage in the back. When they finally chose two short swords, one straight long dagger, and two curved ones, they heard a load sound of something breaking. Back in the main space of the smithy, they saw a very proud girl swinging a broken saber while standing next to a magical anvil, with it's hammer shining rather brightly. Beneath the anvil were two other sabers, one with only it's tip broken off, and another broken close to the handle. The girl seemed to have broken all three of them at the same time.

 - This one will do!! The length is just fucking right!

  Rose pulled out three damaged specter cores, put them next to the anvil, and began fitting the saber to her belt. Smith quickly run up to give them back, but the girl didn't even notice her, so Cindy took them, and paid some silver coins. Jack patted the girl on her back, and the two Guild Master left with Rose following close behind them.

  When they reached the Barking Dog, Rose snapped at the barking dog, while Cindy took a large bag from Vladi who was just leaving the tavern. He tried to say something, but only mumbled beneath his breath, and run back inside, after giving Cindy an awkward hug. 

  Cindy divided food from the bag between the three of them, so they could each put their portion into their pocket spaces, and they slowly walked back to the tailor. 

 - Do you think we will have any trouble in Mountainfall?

 - Hmm.. hard to - said Jack while organising his pocket space - say. We will - he said as he looked at Rose behind them - probably have to look for someone to take care of her.. Just in case.. hmf..

 - Good thing I didn't sleep with their Guild Master at least.

 - We should send him a message when we will be close ah.. - said Jack while scratching the back of his head - Guard Captain may be against seeing me pass by.

 - At lest we won't be coming back here.

  The two laughed for a bit, having walked for about two hundred fifty steps went into the tailor shop. Clerk gave them the clothes for Rose, and they had the girl go into an open space again to see how her new jacket fits. Cindy helped Rose adjust belts on the arms, and back, the girl attached her swords to a belt on the outside of the jacket, while buckling belts on her waist and chest. After some more adjustements the jacked finally allowed for reasonably free movement. Jack paid the tailor a gold coin, and they left while a red-ish haired girl was skipping around, while watching her currently calf long jacket flip about.

 - Rose, Rose? Before you tune out, I'd like to ask you something.

 - Sure, shoot.

 - You can chose to take different training at the Guild. Children usually are sent straight to the advanced training, but you are a little old for it..

 - What's the other one?

 - It's basic training. It's mainly to help prepare your body for proper training. Most adults and adolescents take it when they decide to...

 - I already cleared a fucking dungeon.

 - I understand, advanced it is.

  Cindy smiled at the girl, who now was adjusting lower ends of her swords sheaths, so they wouldn't flop too much when jumping.

 - It's a little ah.. - said Jack, while taking in the Road - late for her to join, but she is right. She should fit in well..

 - We will need to reign in her swearing a little though. Trainers won't mind, but if other kids pick it up...

  They were suddenly interrupted by a pale youth jumping in front of them. The scrawny more boy, than man had a twisted scowl on his face while looking at the Guild Masters and the girl.

 - Why can that brat join advanced training?! You told me! The Bernard Roadish of Ungodly Heroic I can only take the basic training!

 - Bernie.. I told you many times, even if you want to be a mage..

 - But I was in a dungeon!

 - You watched Jeff kill monsters for you, and messed up numerous times when trying to skin them. Rose had killed a boss on her own. It is not a thing child should be allowed to do, but she nor anyone else had a choice in that. If you want, pack up, and tag along, the basic training doesn't take long.

 - How?! You..

 - Sit the fuck down!!

  Interrupted him Rose, and continued hopping towards the Guild, which was about fifty steps away. Cindy followed her, while Jack tried to talk some sense into the boy, who did sit down.

  Jack caught up to the women as they were walking into the office, and they sat down to drink their last beer with Steven. The two Guild Masters grabbed few books, and withdrawn their mana from crystal cluster on their desk.

Jack, Cindy and Rose waved their goodbyes to Monica who came to replace Norbert, and left.

  They took exactly five hundred steps towards the dungeon Rose lived in until now, and then took exactly thousand and one steps towards the Barkin Dog to find themselves out in an open field stretching towards the horizon. Rose gave the sight a tired look, while Jack and Cindy each grabbed her by her hands, and another thousand steps later they were at a path leading into forest beneath a large mountain range.

  The fuck? That stupid town is like.. five meters from us now... 

 - Wait! Rose, it takes much longer to get to Road, and it's easy to lose someone if they step differently.

 - Okay! Stupid fucking road. Will there be more steppy things like that?

 - Ah.. Road - said Jack while breathing in the forest air - is rather unique like that.

 - Stupid fucking Road, and dumber fucking road.

  Rose had equally excited look in her red on black eyes, wether she looked back towards Road, or at the path leading into the forest.