We're Off To See The Wizard (Adelaide and Joric)

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The market was bustling despite the early hour, the people of the small town flowing around each other like a well practiced dance as they went about their daily business. Adelaide moved through them just as fluidly, but rather more aimlessly; she drifted from stall to stall idly looking over things, trying to find the herbs and such she might need to top up her medicinal supplies, as well as good cloth for bandages and anything else that might be useful. She lingered around stalls with more magical ingredients and items as well, looking longingly at the more esoteric things on sale and dreaming of a day she would be able to understand and utilise them all.

It was there that she overheard something of interest - a man she didn't recognise, new to town she suspected, asking one of the stall holders where he might find a particularly adept mage. She couldn't be much help to him in his search, she knew that, for she had no more information than he did in that regard - but if there was some way of, perhaps, travelling with him to meet the mage in question, she might find somebody willing to tutor her in the arts she so desperately desired to learn.

She'd spent long enough in this town, apprenticed to the healer and learning to treat illnesses and injuries through more mundane methods, never quite daring to leave because they said the roads were not safe to travel alone - with someone like this man, clearly a fierce warrior? What would be not safe about that?

"Excuse me," she said softly, approaching the newcomer "Did you say you were looking for a mage?"