Natalie looked around the busy courtyard and took a deep inhale. The smell of cooking bread and the blacksmiths fire filled her nose triggering a comfortable ease. She was back. Her muscles relaxed and her heart slowed for the first time in months. Finally she had encountered a familiar sight. A smile spread across her face as she took another breath and sighed. She turned and headed towards the Ornery Cucco Tavern to see if she would see any familiar faces.

Sovelis was carelessly wandering around the Caslte that day. He had his hood down and was enjoying the sunny day. He bumped into a girl whom he didn't reconized. "Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to bump into you." he said as he smiled at Natalie. "I don't think that we have meet before. My name is Sovelis, I'm a mage of sorts. May I ask your name?" He said as made sure he didn't knock Natalie over.

"Oh hello!" she said cheerfully, nothing could dampen her spirits. "Sorry, I'm afraid I tend to be a bit clumsy its not your fault at all." She could not help but beam up at him in her good mood. "Oh, my names Natalie." she was excited to introduce herself knowing what her name actually was. She felt a flutter of excitement in her stomach as she picked up her bag from the ground.

The samurai laughed, as he dashed through the ally. Dogura turned his head, and saw that the guards were far behind. Slowing his pace a little, he laughed a bit more, and took off up the side of a wall. "Get back here you! You're wanted by the N.C.G.!!" Dogura stopped halfway up the wall, his feet halfway in shadow to keep him on the wall. "You call yourself Hyrule Guards? Ha! You can't even keep up with me." They finally stopped under the wall he was on. They lifted their crossbows to their shoulders, and aimed at the samurai. "Surrender now, or die!" Dogura smiled.

"Surrender to what? I'm innocent!"

"If you were before, you're not anymore! You've evaded arrest for too long now! Men! Fire!!"

Arrows flew from every direction. The ally was crowded with guards and knights, and each of them was firing their crossbow. Finally, the barrage of arrows came to an end... "W-where did he go? There's no way he could have..."


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Dogura now rose from a shadow a few blocks away. He had disappeared into the very shadow he was standing in, and was now standing under the canopy of a nearby coffee shop. He was considering dropping in for a cup of well deserved coffee. Ahh... I haven't had this much fun in a long time... A coffee would do me justice. As he placed a hand on the door, he stopped, and thought. He would surely be searched for... It wouldn't be long. He wouldn't be able to make it out of a cafe without taking lives, and that was simply not an option.

He let go of the door, and turned to leave North Castle, when he noticed Sovelis standing on the other side of the street. A wagon rolled by, and Dogura had lost sight of him for a moment, before his eyes once again rested on the mage. It was who he was meeting with that shocked the samurai. "Azalea?" he muttered aloud, taking a closer look. It is her! I wonder how she's been. Last time I saw her must have been... It was either at Kasei's party, or North Forest...

A smile formed on Dogura's face. He began to move across the street, when a familiar voice pierced his ears. "Hrrrgggg... Dogura... Help me out here will you?" Dogura turned to see a familiar face that matched the tone. Fang was cuffed, and he was being escorted towards the castle by two guards. Fang... What did you do this time? Dogura frowned, and gave him the look of a thousand words. What are you trying to pull Fang?... You know as well as I do that two guards are no match for you... Why do you request help?

The samurai looked back to Sovelis and Azalea, and then back to the cuffed Fang. "Dammit Gengai..." The samurai muttered, before prying into the guard's mind's, and initiating a weak jolt that would knock them out temporarily, just long enough for Fang to escape. Fang took advantage of the situation, and motioned for Dogura to follow him as he opted towards the gates to Hyrule field. Dogura sighed, and decided that he would have to meet with his friends later. Whatever Fang wanted, it wouldn't be small talk. Following his friend. His enemy. He exited North Castle...

OOC: Welcome back!

"Well, Natalie, it is a pleasure to meet you." Sovelis said as he helped Natalie up. "You souldn't blame yourself. I wasn't watching where I was going." He said as he continued to smile warmlly at the girl he had just knocked over a few moments ago. "What brings you to the city?" he said as he leaned on his staff and put his left hand into his cloak pocket to keep Natalie from seeing that his hand was an advanced piece of Mechanical technology that probably would never exist in this world. Best not to wierd any of the locals out... he thought as his smile started to fade from his face.

She thought for a moment while she waited to reply. She delayed catching her balance as her mind searched for the right words. "Well honestly...now that you mention it...I..." she paused trying not to look to confused and stupid, "I guess I just like it here, I think I will start my life here..." she looked far away and dreamy as she thought about it. " No business really." Actually the only business she had thought about was finding her memories, but after the months of tracing all she got was a name and something about a village. She decided she must not have been very important in her old life and this time she would make at least a bit of a mark that she existed.

"I see that you have a sword. You must relize that most people I know are adventurers. Perhaps you and I could go tresure-hunting sometime, It could be fun." Sovelis said as he started to go down the street. "Take care! See ya around!" he yelled at Natalie as he disapered down an alleyway.

"Wow, hello sir," Aureliano said to Dogura. "Hello my name is Aureliano what's your name," he said with a charming smile, now directing his word Natallie.

Link held out his hand saying "Hello! My name is Link".