First Job

21st of Horsebow Moon, 1173
 
Sorry I haven’t been able to write much over these past couple of days but so much has happened! We (as in the people I fought Achilles with, along with the metal owl bear himself) got hired for a job! Saving this money for my travels and cost of food/lodging I need along the way will be a nice security blanket!
 
Originally we thought it would just be a simple bodyguard job for Lord Sebrezal because most of the time we were patrolling. My first watch was with Vestele for just making sure everything was on the up and up at the mansion. My next watch was when we were going out to the Lord’s shipping warehouses. I was paired with Quilletta for that one. Achilles couldn’t go inside so he got to stick with me! (Thanks Therion!) I was considering holding his metal paw for a split second, just to see what it would be like. Ultimately I decided against it because I didn’t know how he would react and also probably would get a weird look from Quilletta who was weary of the metal creature.
 
I ended up talking to Quilletta about her horse for a little bit. The most prominent question my brain kept bringing up though was why he was named Felon exactly and not something like Valor, but I didn’t want to be rude and refrained from asking. Maybe one day I would learn how he got his name. (There's a list of horse names in the side of the notebook.)
 
It turns out though the Lord had angered a local criminal organization and soon found ourselves protecting the guy by fighting them off. I was hoping we wouldn’t fight as there seemed to be a lot of them… but we did alright! They ended up attacking first and from there it slowly seemed to spiral out of control a little bit.
 
They fought for what they believed in as we fought for what we had been contracted to do. I would never consider taking a life, as all life is important and has a purpose… however being in battle really opens your eyes to what could happen to you; how quickly life can end and how you have to protect yourself. Watching your new friends slowly get hurt over and over again seeing no end to the bandits, only to find yourself being surrounded with no one to immediately help. It all happened so fast: getting stabbed. I panicked. I was scared. I curled in on myself. Clutching my amulet I thought, ‘would this be it?’
 
But I wasn’t truly alone, warmth filled my body and I shoved my amulet out in front of me shouting for the bandits to get away from me. Radiant energy erupted around me killing a couple of bandits... I was chosen and given these powers to help those around me, but to do so I had to be alive. I wasn’t killing in the name of a god or anything like that, I was protecting myself so in return I could save more. I will not forget them, I will live on for them and save more than the amount of lives I have taken.
 
To rub salt in the wound we also found out that the group of bandits we fought were trying to get the leader’s sister back because the Lord had kidnapped her. We found this out later because the bandits attacked the mansion at night and captured us. When we escaped we interrogated a couple that were left behind and became aware of what was truly going on.
 
The rest all happened in a whirlwind: We met the bandit’s leader, helped her get her sister back, and then they left the city. It has been a long day but I wanted to get this all down before I forgot! Until next adventure!