[The Dreamer]

IC: Dreamer
On remote mountainside.

Exiting from his portal, Dreamer landed on a small plain residing on the top of a steep mountain. The light from the night sky seemed to reflect off the tall grass that went to his waist, and the wind rustled it just so that it resembled the waves of an ocean. Tilting his head to one side, he could almost relax, when suddenly he heard the sound of footsteps. Turning he could see a dark clothed Asmodian woman walking towards him. It was rare for them to send a female assignor to him.

"There were to be three escorts for you, Mad Wolf. Could you kindly tell me where they are?" Her demeanor took on an air of arrogance, and the tone she used was as if she expected him to acknowledge her as an superior. She must be new...I'll teach her different.

"I'm afraid," Dreamer said turning the other way, "That I cannot converse with a female too stupid to be able to figure out such a simple question herself. Now please be a good girl, and relay your message that you are to present to me. I'm quite busy and have no time toying with a ignorant such as yourself." He could guess what was to happen next.


"Y...You dare talk to me with such insolence! I'll make you PAY!" Screaming at him, she shot a bolt of lighting strait towards his back, "You shall kneel to ME!" There was her mistake. Turning swiftly he caught the lightning with a magic grasp in his hand, and flung it back at her, catching her off guard. Then using his left hand, he levitated her up into the air. He then began to make the wind form into slashes, just dull enough that they wouldn't give her a mortal cut. Caught in the this tornado of pain, her screams pierced through the howling winds. Sweet, lovely screams...

It was not until that he became concerned that she might suffocate herself from her incessant cries, did The Dreamer let her down. She collapsed to the ground, too weak to stand. Her clothes now in rags, she barely looked anything like the woman that had initially presented herself to him. Kneeling down to her and lifting her face up to him by the jaw, he spoke very softly, "Now you were to present a message to me, yes? An assignment?" Her tear glistened eyes shown with nothing but fear; through the sobs she tried to answer him, "Yes...P-Please just...no more...I was sent...to tell you that..."

"Hurry now my dear before I become impatient." He truly hated waiting.

"O-f course, yes...anything you want...," Breathing in deeply she blurted the next out as if her life depended on it. It most likely did. "You are t-to go to a Elyos guarded fortress in the abyss. T-there you must infiltrate it and follow this map to this secret room, where...where we believe there will be a tome. You must take it and bring it to us." Taking the note and map from the woman, he still did not let her go.

"It's no simple task simply running into the enemy's heavily fortified building, grabbing a treasure and waltzing right on out." Gasping she quickly answered, "We have already planned for this. We have sent a a squadron of Asmodians to the location already, assigning them to be on sentry duty. The Elyos are soon to find them, and while they are in battle, you are to enter the fortress admits the chaos."

"Sacrificing so many, for something such as a tome...that's quite a treasure. could you tell me what it is?" He already had a hunch what it might be. His heart began to beat with excitement.

"I..._c-can't!" Instantly the tears began to stream down her face again, "It's class...classified information s-so they won' let me...P-please, l-let me go."

"Of course my dear, you have been most helpful. I do hope to see you again soon." Staggering, to her feet she quickly summoned a portal and practically fell on through. Dreamer barely noticed as he was lost in thought already. This could be it. This artifact might be exactly what I've been looking for, and if it is...He began laughing hysterically. Taking out the map, and looking only furthered his laughter. The location was the same fortress he had just been to. Quickly he summoned a portal and ran on through. Soon I will have it. Soon my true quest will begin!