An Owl's Rise

Two days had passed since Evelyn sent out her letters to Bylur and Rehni agreeing to form a team with them, and she now had their responses sitting in front of her.

'I will read Rehni's first. She is more to the point than Bylur.' Evelyn thought as she picked up the first letter.

Then with one of her talon's she expertly opened up the letter and took it out.

Swiftly she read through the contents and nodded her head.

Everything written was concise and easy to follow and had set the date for their next meeting so long as Evelyn could make it.

'So, they want to meet at the Ranking Hall and go ahead and form our team. I just hope they do not expect to take on any battles on the same day.' Evelyn thought.

Once she was finished with Rehni's letter she opened Bylur's which was filled with far more superfluous detail.

He was certainly far more emotional than Rehni and it came out clearly in his writing. There were lines in his letter such as 'I really cannot wait to get to fight with you' and 'I know we are going to make a great team. You can leave all the healing to me. Though not like I will let you get hit.'

Just reading his letter was a bit difficult with how all over the place it was, and Evelyn was grateful she had read Rehni's first because gathering the same information from Bylur's letter would have been a challenge.

'At least he is enthusiastic.' Evelyn thought as she wrote a brief response.

They had all agreed to meet four days from now and she needed to send her acknowledgement as was polite.

When she had finished writing she stored it away since it was already late and planned to deliver it tomorrow.

'I think it is time for bed. I have already exhausted myself with brewing for most of the day.'

With that thought Evelyn hopped away from her desk and flew up into her bed. Allowing herself to quickly fall asleep.

…

The next four days came and went fairly quickly for Evelyn.

She had pretty much just spent her time using all of the materials she had collected into alchemical items for personal use and to sell.

Her new shop on the second level of the Alchemy Hall was not quite ready yet, but she was making sure to have an adequate stock prepared for when it was.

'I think I have everything I could possibly need just in case.' Evelyn thought as she checked the contents of her storage rings and cuff.

Feeling certain she was ready she left Melisandre's mansion and headed for the Ranking Hall.

Just like all of the halls it was located in one of the largest trees that circled around the central area of the Roost where Minerva lived.

Surprisingly the place did not look too busy in compassion to some of the other halls Evelyn had been to.

'I suppose that those that do not think themselves all that strong will not bother participating until they are confident in their abilities.' Evelyn thought ass eh entered.

Like all the halls there were a few owls standing guard outside, but they only gave Evelyn a quick glance to determine her rank and did not impede her from entering.

Once inside the massive tree Evelyn could see that it was mostly hollow and had numerous platforms going up it just like the Records Hall.

'Huh, I honestly thought that there would be some huge arena or something.' Evelyn thought as she looked around.

However, as much as she spun her head around and observed the place, she did not see any area where it seemed that other owls were doing battle as she expected.

'Well, I can figure out where the matches take place later. I need to go and see Bylur and Rehni for now.'

While scanning the hall she had spotted her two acquaintances sitting in what seemed to be a gathering area and they had locked eyes.

Even though she wanted to looked around more it would be rude not to approach them and she figured that she could get more information out of them anyway.

Flying on over, Evelyn landed next to them and did her best to put on a friendly smile.

Except the expression did not come naturally as she normally wore a black expression or scowl. And she came off as rather unsettling.

"Are you oaky Evelyn?" Bylur asked the moment they made a magical connection.

Apparently, her trying to make a smile instead came off as her seeming to be displeased.

"Yeah, I am fine." Evelyn said, sighing and letting her face go back to its natural expression.

This alleviated the tension that had formed and Rehni and Bylur visibly relaxed.

Now that Evelyn had joined them, the three of them exchanged a few pleasantries, before getting down to business.

"Okay the first thing we need to decide on is a name for our team. We cannot register without one." Bylur said enthusiastically.

He then suggested a series or flashy names such as, Blazing Blizzard Boom, which correlated to Evelyn's fire magic, Rehni's' sound magic, and Bylur's ice magic.

And while he certainly thought they sounded cool, both Evelyn and Rehni were visibly disgusted and turned them down.

"I think something simple is probably best. We can just go by Bylur's Team or Rehni's Team." Evelyn suggested

Yet she received pushback almost immediately just as Bylur had.

"While I believe using one of our names is fine, it should be you Evelyn who leads us." Rehni said.

But despite this not being what Evelyn wanted, Bylur jumped onboard as well and said that if none of his ideas were any good, he was fine with them being Evelyn's Team.

Unable to squash their enthusiasm for taking her name for their team, Evelyn relented.

"Fine we can take my name but remember what I wrote in my letter. My main goal will be to act as support using wind magic. Unless one of us is about to die or be serious injured, I have no intention of using either of my other magics."