Day 7 as an Adventurer.

  I was recovering from that weird drug trip of a dream I had. I can't remember much but it was fucking weird as hell. I woke up in the morning to birds chirping and the sunlight in my eyes, it all made my head hurt worse.

  And when the pain went away, I walked towards the campfire and Gregg said "Morning, I was starting to get worried about you, not that I actually care about you, Jailbait."

  I rolled my eyes and replied "You do know that I have a name, right?"

  Gregg then said "complain all you want, I'm still going to call you Jailbait… even if we decide to stab each other."

  "Go fuck yourself, Gregg." I said.

  "I don't think my member is that long enough, dick." Gregg replied. "Well, grab a stick and jam it back up there." I replied back.

  Azihana returned to the campfire with a darkened expression on her face, Gregg noticed this and raised his eyebrows and asked "is there something wrong?" Azihana continued to stare at us before she spoke in a low voice "Come…"

  We followed her, and Gregg was confused, he had never seen Azihana like this. As she came to a stop, we saw the same bandit camp that had snatched me and sent me through a bullshit mission, the same camp that Gregg has been doing errands in for a long time, the same camp that Azihana fixed food at, the same camp where the two lived at the most of their lives… burnt to ashes, flooded with the bodies of bandits and no sign of life except the vultures that came to feast on the carcusses. We walked around the camp, it was pillaged from top to bottom, no sign of treasures and gold. "Damn it…" Gregg said to himself, he looked around where his family once lived, he looked around to try and find what's left of his family. He walked to a pile of what was a hut.

  Me and Azihana went to what's left of Cauldron's tent, we started looking around the place and we found a medallion of some sort. Azihana darkened in recognition of the symbol of the medallion and she mumbled "The Inquisition…"

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  We walked out and we noticed horse tracks and kept note that it wasn't any ordinary raider band that burnt everything down.

  And out of the sudden, Gregg was screaming in anger "THOSE BASTARDS TOOK ALYNDRA!!!!" He ran out of the camp in a flash, and we chased after him.

  8 minutes later, he found a small camp of mercenaries. Two of them were forcefully spitroasting a woman from the bandit camp, one was drinking beer while watching them, Gregg lunges at one of the mercenaries and starts beating him into a pulp, the two Mercenaries shoved the woman aside and pulled out their actual swords, however Azihana slices them in half with her sword. Gregg continues to pummel the man before landing the finishing punch, finally killing the Mercenary. Gregg looks down and cries as he breaks down in front of us. Azihana checked on the woman that was raped by the Mercenary, trying to calm her down.

  Two hours later, everything was calm, although Gregg was deep into despair and the woman was traumatized by the actions from earlier.

  Azihana was reheating the stew that was originally supposed to be eaten earlier. I cleared my throat and said "Gregg… what's wrong?"

  Gregg continued to look down in despair, however he said one word "Alyndra…"

  The Woman then spoke for the first time "They took her…"

  Azihana then joined in "What do you know about the raid back at the camp?" The woman then replied with hesitation "...Those Raisen bastards broke into camp and burnt everything… they killed my husband… and took every woman with them… including me… "

  Gregg looks at the woman "do you know where they took Alyndra, Miss Semolina?" He asked. Semolina replied with "The Raisen plan to take your sister to some 'nunnery' up in Cucurbita. And I hope it's a church and not some brothel…"

  Gregg grips his own blade handle hard as he starts fuming with anger, but Azihana says "No. Take deep breaths and think about something else. We will have to deal with the Raisen later." Gregg starts trying to calm down and says "The Raisen are mine, I don't want no one interfering with my affairs… However, I am thinking about rescuing Alyndra from whatever they are trying to put her in… I am not letting her become one of their whores… I'm letting you all into my scheme, no ifs, no buts, and no howevers. I'm going to bring her back in one piece as the temporary leader of this group."

  An hour later after his speech, we went to sleep in the wagon. Semolina is sleeping next to Azihana for protection. Azihana was clinging on to me in her sleep. Gregg slept away from the rest of us. And I was hoping for tomorrow, the day that would either end with saving his sister or becoming known as criminals for the rest of life as we rot in a cell. I hope it ends with saving someone.