If you asked Miriko if any of this was entirely with in her actual plans in the coming future the answer would be no, But she would make do with what has been places before her. So Miriko would pack up all of things she had worked on in a carriage that Alistair could transport, All of the paintings, the various books of drawings, her supplies to draw and paint all packed up neatly to carry them over. She would not sit on the back of Alistair but on a section of the carriage, With her umbrella open and covering herself as the normal of her and she would be arriving to Blue Pegasus.

Pondering to herself if she did this now if Alisa and whoever else at the guild. Alistair was ready for this shift around but then again Alistair adjusted to most things easily. But as always set up for travel Miriko did have stop to make sure Alistair drank and ate things when he needed them. for the most part Miriko had been quiet the entire trip most likely because she did not know what else to talk about, Not that Alistair and Miriko were not use to long times of quiet. Miriko for the most part was honestly a bit nervous at first, But she was never the bravest woman. But at least Hargeon for the most part was fairly quiet and settled. Alisa also could maybe set up a few things she had yet to do so herself with setting up that art gallery. But it was things to go through later when she get the main part of her arrival out of the way.

When she was a few feet from the main door of the build of Blue Pegasus,She would stop Alistair. Get out a large container leave water in for him to drink out of. Then she would mention to him that she would be back in a few minutes. Then she collect her umbrella looked around for a moment standing at what she assumed was the front door, Pondering for a moment.

Then she opened the door and looked around for a moment pondering if anyone was around. Closing her umbrella it almost seemed as if no one was around for the moment. But she would at least speak up."H-hello?"The meek nature of Miriko just taking place as always.

Flapping sounds could be heard from behind Sofia. They were soft, but they were also a bit abrupt and wavy, almost as if a bird was readying a solid, gentle landing next to the two babies… which just happened to be the exact case here. Coda was thoroughly curious as to why these two infant-looking entities were located in Blue Pegasus, and Coda being Coda couldn’t put two and two together on her own. Gazing closely at the two sleeping beauties, Coda felt a sudden, rising instinct to go out hunting and bring back food for them, but they weren’t exactly chickens. Still, were they cold? Coda’s feathers could warm them up a little, but Coda felt reluctant to really… do anything other than just gaze at them with wide, intrigued bird eyes. Who were they? Sofia had sat with them a moment ago, maybe they belonged to her…

The people of Blue Pegasus knew the deal; if Coda was here, then her falconer was somewhere nearby. Those two were glued together at most times, but Coda was acting on her own accord for now, more curious about the babies than about the giant cat outside. Daiko, on the other hand, was enamored by the feline creature and found no fear in moving a hand down and stroking its furry chin. “Hey there, kitty cat… Coda, don’t panic, I think it’s friendly… C-Coda… Coda?”

Meanwhile, Coda began glaring straight at the two ladies inside the guild hall. Coda looked worried for the babies, not knowing exactly what to do.

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If there was anything Miriko could mention with these situations, She did not know entirely what she was getting too, When it was not Alisa who was at the door. She seemed like she was about to answer then her brain just froze upon being called pretty, But it was for a quick moment something you just had to be sure you picked up on."I..I am looking to join your guild."Yes because these people were still slightly new, Miriko was unsure about herself, But as time progressed Miriko would be okay. It was just her typical why of being, She was just a fairly meek person that way."My previous guild is gone, Since I know Alisa as a client who has gotten a painting form me and know of the guild by name,I figured It would be fitting to be here."It was a bit longer winded then most people just out right saying it but she was here to join the guild.

But for now enough momentum was build up that she would speak normally."But it is pleasant to meet you, I am Miriko Rinmizukmi."She would at least start with because it was the normal too."I often travel the lands to see the many site and recreate them on page or canvas for people to see."She mentioned this a bit more casually, But almost like she was use to saying this in terms of a business person as well."It would have been Mimi of Empyrean Divine, But as earlier mentioned the guild is gone now."For now Miriko seemed fairly delighted and happy to be talking, until something most likely froze her mind for a moment with in the conversations, But that was easy to do even if Miriko was an adult.

Outside Alistair was being treated like a normal cat, Even if Coda was not around or even in site Alistair did not but he would say."Most people at least ask me or Mimi."In which he right away laughed about it. Even having to add in."I do also have name, It is Alistair."He was also kind of normal and casual about that too, Alistair must have been use to it by this point. After all he was not a normal cat. Standing there Alistair should have asked to maybe remove the things that he used to pull this light carriage, until he just kind of got himself to slip out of it since it was just a loose fitting collar. Then he just sat like a normal cat, However consider Alistair was 6 feet tall and 13 feet in from head to tail in length, it was needless to say he was a big cat, At least he was friendly.

… Oh snap, Daiko did forget to ask for permission first! Then again, since Coda wasn’t able to speak any human language, Daiko had little experience that would’ve led him to believe that the feline could, so he was… understandably taken aback by the exchange. “… Oh, Alistair. That’s such a fancy name,” the Fire Mage quickly let the surprise die down and returned to normal, watching the tall creature relax from the shackles of his carriage. “Well, this is Coda. She’s not as big as you, but she’s vicious and not edible.”

Somehow, he felt like he needed to add that last bit. It was one of those… unexplainable hunches that jumped out from his belly, y’know, without a proper origin that he could pinpoint. He just felt like saying it, but the force that brought him to utter those two words was a mystery.

… Aw, that’s not fair. Sofia had the most companions out of the trio by now; Daiko did also count her very first companion, the giant water serpent Blue. Along with the Pegasus that she rode on back when they freed Blue, and with the dainty twinkle-toed Exceed in their company, Sofia could easily be mistaken for some kind of Summoner or one of those… uh, what was the term again? It was like falconer, but it involved all manners of creatures…

Z-Zoologist? Something along those lines, yeah.

“Wait, Carla’s an Exceed? They’re super rare, aren’t they?!” Daiko asked upon approaching the two ladies, spotting the one who accompanied the giant cat outside, “A-…”

Those… those hair buns on her head intrigued him a bit too strongly. They looked quite like bunny ears from this angle, or onigiris attached to one’s hair. A solid moment passed by where he just… glared, until he realized his doings. “… ! Sorry, uh, forgive me. It’s a bad habit.”

So it had not been spread around that much? It did not seem to bother Miriko all that much in the end, It just meant down the road she found her mother and sister again. As well as eventually checking up on Emil to see how he was doing, But she would continue being busy."It was a bit beyond my knowing or doing either, But..I will adjust and make due some way."She did sound a bit disappointed but not anything she could not just move on from. But it now in some way made sense why she was here.

Now this subject came up, given the mention of my lisa, it seemed she countered her in law, She was unsure if she wanted to admit what she wanted to say in this moment with Daiko next to her staring at her, But alas maybe it was good to mention just in case."Yes...Alisa is some one I have met before while I was travelling, she also bought a painting of mine."She would at least start with that to ease into it. But she was not getting to shy with her words."Also according to my mother, Alisa....is my aunt..."She did seemed a bit more nervous admitting that, But she got that out of the way. Hence why she was looking for her first, But now they knew that when Miriko generally kept that quiet. Might be just because she felt Sofia should know that about her, Daiko just was in a happen stance part of the moment to learn it.

But now Alistair parts."I am not interested in eating your bird, I prefer fish."Alistair said with a bit of a laugh about it. It seemed eating Coda was never on his mind to start with, Nor was playing with her even if the idea of chasing was there. But Alistair was drawing attention like he did sometimes."We both have seen a few other Exceed's before."Alistair also mentioned since it was brought by name but Alistair seemed delighted still."If perhaps they both really wanted, I have no problem walking around with them on my back."The Cattian laughed about it slightly because it was just what he did normally, After all he did just carry over all these supplies, paintings and drawing here with out much help at all.

But with being stared at Miriko seemed to start slowly leaning away from Daiko because she was nervous and a bit unsure of him. But she was trying to keep herself in check and relaxed. Then she would explain."Alistair is a bit different. From what he has told me he is a Cattian. Any information on them I have not been able to find...So far I assume he is the only Cattian on these lands."It was an interesting fact about the light hearted and happy talking cat that seemed to be always ready to just take a nap.

… Hold up, was this Alisa’s niece?

That notion stirred up many questions in Daiko’s head, because when he thought of the term ‘niece’, then he often imagined a far… younger girl? Uh, was he confused? Yes. But was this confusing? Maybe? If anything, this lady looked like she was around Alisa’s own age, so h-how so? How old were Alisa’s siblings now? Wait, Alisa had siblings? He had never heard of them! Did Sofia know? Maybe, yeah, actually, it’d be obvious of her to know at this point – they were married, remember…

Coda decided to rest on Alistair’s fluffy back, taking her time in gathering strength as per usual. Daiko couldn’t help but reflect on the name ‘Cattian’, which was Alistair’s race… names. They were silly, at times. It was pretty cool to hear that he was a rarity, however, but maybe that wasn’t exactly a cool trait in the eyes of the Cattian.

Also, damn it Sofia, could you catch him a break for a moment? He wasn’t leering at her, he was just curious about the hair buns on her head. Obviously, he wasn’t going to say that and simply pouted to the side with a few words: “I wasn’t leering… I wish I was an uncle, too.” Sofia seemed all the more delighted to meet another member of her family, which begged the question-

“Alisa should be coming back soon… planning on joining us? If you ask me, people would already think you’re a Blue Pegasus mage just from looks alone. It’s kind of a theme.” Hey, Daiko felt pretty handsome lately himself – whatever growth spurt he suffered from during the last 5 years had paid off tremendously. He wasn’t going to comment on the other girls’ growths, because he didn’t want to be pinched or bullied too much, but what he tried to get at was that this bun girl (or whatever other nickname he’d get for her) felt very welcome in their ranks. Call it intuition, something that he must’ve picked up from their fatally beautiful Mistress…

With Coda resting on Alistair the cattian would get up and walk over to Carla. More just to make sure he met some of the distance for Carla, At least still shown Alistair was a friendly and harmless."You have two to be exactly little one."Alistair did seemed to call people little ones to insult them, more for fun."Unless you do not know Coda already, That I am unsure of since I just got here."Alistair seemed to manage the balance of walking around with Coda well, But he would sit back down eventually after find a good spot to be, some where a bit closer to Miriko while still giving some room.

Miriko would take a slight step to the side from Daiko so she was not leaning away from Daiko so much, but she had in mind she had a few things she could explain. Since it was mentioned by Sofia that she was Alisa's wife."Yes I would be your niece."It was a plain reaction to the question, But she knew it would lead into  some questions, But first she would accept the hug offered to her and hugged Sofia. Later on as things go on hugs and affection would not be common form Miriko but it would happen every once and a while. But she was in way a fairly different person in that manner of physical expression.

With at least Miriko giving that distance she wanted between herself and Daiko and after the hug. She would just mention to Daiko."It is a simple wish, I do hope some one with in your family allows you to achieve that dream one day."You do have to keep in mind Miriko knew very little about Daiko, she did not know if she hit a sore spot or not.

Well with that remark she would actually explain why she was here, any questions about relations and what all has happened to her in life between her and other people for now would have to wait."Well, It is why I got a small carriage for Alistair to carry all of my completed: paintings, Drawings, Supplies and materials to carry over."Yes in that carriage was a lot of paintings and drawings, Given the calibre of Miriko's art talent, it is just a giant collect of things to sells."With what happen to my previous, This was my next ideal guild to go to."It was hinting to Daiko she was here to join this guild.

But she could admit."I am here to join the guild, I might have hoped to talk to Alisa first, But I am glad I have made other people as well."Pointing out the positive of the situation. This way the introductions where not strange later they might have met a very shy and really unsure of herself Miriko if she had talked to Alisa first. But there was little worry, because Miriko started to feel like she fit in here.

Coda was dozing off on top of Alistair’s back. The bird had no qualms about sleeping on top of strange people, and now even other creatures as well. She lived by her own rules, that rascal… thankfully, Alistair didn’t seem to mind it one bit.

Yeah, hopefully one day, Raeden might even become a mother. Then Daiko would become an uncle, just like he recently wished for. “Oooh… if Raeden becomes a mother one day, that should make me her kid’s uncle, right? Deal,” he noted with a quick peace sign flung out. Also, did Miriko… fear him or something? He sensed some kind of fear from her; perhaps it was her making distance despite him not thinking that he had gotten that close. Had he done something?

While she didn’t go into detail about her previous guild, she had confirmed to wanting to join Blue Pegasus. Daiko followed them, but he kept feeling some kind of magnetic repulsion – was he getting on her nerves or something? They had just met! What was the deal? Did she have a problem with him?

No, no, no… she seemed far too timid to want to start issues with people. Maybe he was being scary to her?

“… Wait, you draw paintings, right? Is that your Magic or something; can you… wait, let me guess… can you make your paintings explode?”

Sofia was correct, Alistair meant rather harmless things."I only called you little one, Because most things around me are small."Which was answer he felt fair. But Alistair would remarked."At least I am not calling you a kitten and treating you like a child."He also meant this as a joke as well. It was still entirely harmless, But maybe they were likely every once and a while to butt heads as being but Alistair would still never hurt Carla. Just give the exceed a smile for the moment."You can join us if you want Carla."Just leaving the offer open, After all Coda seemed to resting on Alistair and he did not mind at all.

With Daiko's remark."If you have a sister and they have a child, Then yes that would be you becoming an uncle."It was to affirm what he said, since Daiko figured it out.But she had more things to answer anyway."Since I last  saw her, She is well it has been a few years. So I am overdue to visit her again since it has been a few years...I get lost seeing things and making things."She did not get too embarrassed with admitting that, After all it was just how she worked just normally does things and forgets how much time has passed. But as far as she knew, her mother is well.

Before getting to the guild tattoo part Miriko would make sure to mention the way her magic works."if you want a basic summary of my magic...I could paint a carriage to carry people and it could exist to do such a task."She did not do it in this case because it would a lot of energy magic wise to travel from the east to the south and it would just be more effective to do what she has done."If I were to paint a bomb as think and had it work as my magic intended, Then yes it would blow up."Daiko was kind of right, But there was a few more steps."The ink or paint bomb would just splash ink or paint all over a person." So not an actual bomb that blew people up just a bit differently.

As for the guild tattoo part it would be pretty simple."I get my guild tattoo on the centre of my back." The old guild tattoo should be their, Since she had not done anything about it yet. But because sign of it were already shown."When we do go placing the guild mark on me, Can we maybe consider a more of a private area...I do not enjoy being too exposed."It sounded silly, Even if Miriko was a fairly pretty woman and she knew it, It was just how she was. She was a more conservative typed of woman and tended to feel a bit more happy in her dresses and gothic clothing as they saw her now. It was a simple request in her mind.

Yay! Uncle Daiko… that had a ring to it. However, that was him assuming that his sister would, one day, bear children. Whenever that would happen or if that would happen was up to fate. Funnily enough, Daiko had desires of becoming a father, too. Just like his mother raised him, he wanted to raise some of his own chickens one day. His own, little sparrows.

“Raeden! My sister, she joined a few days ago,” Daiko casually informed Sofia with a raised eyebrow, confused as to why the aqua lass hadn’t already been drawn to his sister’s beauty and charisma and already gotten to know her, “… W-Wait, you haven’t met yet?”

In all honesty, the notion of Daiko having a sister was quite a bomb to drop. He didn’t know whether here and now was the time to explain that, though.

This gothic lady’s Magic sounded batshit amazing! So she could just paint it, and it would become real? Could she paint another Coda, and then there’d be two Codas? That was sick! The sudden rise of sparks in Daiko’s wide, hopeful eyes relayed his feelings clearly; he was far too intrigued by the notion of how her Magic worked. So a bomb would become a paint bomb with ink and all… so a painted Coda would have wings of ink?

Wait, ink was pretty dense… right? Could a painted Coda fly? Also, wait, was she going to bomb him just for being curious? Because this girl… she did still appear quite distant from him, as if he did get on her nerves. “I- wait… I can live through that.” Yeah, after that egg time, what was going to kill him?

While wondering about that ink, a vein did pop up on Daiko’s forehead along with a sulky pout. “Hmmh… if anyone’s a lecher, it’s Coda,” he protested quietly, almost looking a bit hurt by the words. Sofia did know him better than that, and perhaps she just wanted to put the new girl at ease, but it still rubbed Daiko in a weird way. It… almost made him blush, which was weird as hell, ‘cause being called a lecher was a bad thing, right? Was it because it was Sofia of all people who labeled him that he felt this sort of way?

“I’ll make sure Coda doesn’t bother you too much. You hear that, chick?!” Coda responded quickly, turning into a bird missile and jamming straight into his forehead, causing his torso to bounce like a spring forward and backwards. Once he sat still, he contemplated the bird’s antics once more, realizing that Coda really was into chicks far more than she was loyal to him at this point…

“Okay, enough playing around, Coda! Behave,” Daiko demanded, quickly pulling the bird’s beak off from his bleeding forehead that immediately began lighting up in healing flames to patch it back to normal. This kind of scene was normal at this point, and he was resilient like lead. “You go get your Guild Mark on, and I’ll bite my cheek in the meantime…”

Finally some form of relief from the situation at hand, mentally there would be a chance to explain eventually that Miriko just had a fair amount of a personal space to new people and had a few other ways she acted a bit different compared to most people of the guild.But she let out a sigh of relief."I am ready to go into the office and get the stamp."With that Miriko would most likely head off with Sofia to get that fancy mark she had drawn once before. But just on her back, It was weird considering how different the situation was now to be in, For she never thought her previous guild would go the way it did. But Miriko walked inside.

As for Daiko, There was still a ever lingering cattian there too, he was not really watching the stuff there because he assumed it was safe."So...is your friend always this spicy?" Alistair meant this more of the way of personality not even considering the food part of spicy, So he at least it sounded funnier in his mind to mentioned it that way."So far everyone here seems pretty nice here, Less for me to worry about for Miriko."Daiko had a different chance here, A chance to talk to the Cattian about Miriko it was a good way for him to maybe learn how things work for Miriko and why she might be the way she was now, If the idea connected in his mind but for now it seemed it was the normal and open situation for Coda,Daiko and Carla if she stuck around.

Before seemed Miriko just went inside quietly and sound a place to take her time make her the centre of her back was easily seen, Her previous guild mark was still there, However this also showed that Miriko often avoided sun light because her skin on her back was just as pale as the rest of her, She was trying to keep it matching."It will have to replace that old guild mark,I assume."Miriko just seemed to mention it as she settled in and waited for it to happen, However she seemed to just manage to settle into sitting quickly, only thinking about what else she could draw or paint that day, But as her time progress with in this guild, That would be completely normal of Miriko.

”Yup.”

Daiko didn’t even attempt to sugar coat it; Coda was always this spicy… she really was his bird pal. Coda, on the other hand, noticed the unintentional food metaphor and began chirping loudly at the big cat, to which Daiko ruffled her head feathers a bit to calm her down. “Relaaaaaaaaaax, he won’t eat you…”

It was a sport to train Coda. Falconry was always a sport, but there was something uncommon about carrying around a lesbian bird with an attitude and temper the size of Era. Still, she and Daiko got along like siblings. They were inseparable at this point.

“Really, there’s nothing to worry about here! Okay, well, maybe Alisa and Sofia can be a little tricky at times, but they really appreciate all us mages here, and I’m sure they’ll make Miriko feel at home here too,” he felt like speaking up for the power couple out of, y’know, knowing them better than most, “Besides… does Miriko fear me? I kept smelling some kind of paranoia from her, but I haven’t done anything, I swear… d-don’t take what Sofia just said at face value, she was just joking! Please, I mean it, I’m not that kind of person…!”

Now it just felt like he was at court trying to defend himself. Poor lad. “I-I’m sure Carla can speak up for me! Isn’t that right, Carla?”

Miriko seemed delighted with the tattoo even if she did kind of miss the thought of her old guild and it's mark she did have to quickly move on, Because at it stood Miriko would feel better in a guild with a place to sleep and work away slowly as it did, It was nice how the mark did work well and was pretty fitting with in the area she kept it at."It is wonderful."She did not forget to actually finally say something as well about it, It seemed the personal and feminine touch worked with Miriko a lot better, she was a strange lady that was for sure, But at least she would fit in here.

as for Alistair's conversation with Daiko it would maybe give him a bit of a good look into Miriko."I am interested in Fish and not bird to eat."which maybe was a good settling point for the bird to listen too."I would say it isn't that she is scared of other people."There was a better way of being mentioned of how it works for Daiko to understand."Miriko's is just does not being stared at by other people for too long when she think a persons seems to focus on her beauty and looks."Which was a good way of mentioning it to Daiko, But there was still a bit more to add into it because it might be needed, Alistair might not be the best to explain it over all because he had different ways of looking at it."Staring for too long and mentioning how pretty she is seems to bother her, she is overly shy to new people she carries some kind of shyness over all."Maybe it made sense maybe it did not.

It seemed for the moment Miriko had that moment needed to kind of just gather herself and put herself into one place mentally, it seemed to for the moment solve the minor problem at hand for Miriko, It at least in the end showed it was not that she did not like people, she just needed her distance and space form them to start with, after all it was just how she was, as might and tall she looked did not mean she was the strong type at least then again you could honestly just say it was Miriko having her flaws and unable to be able to hide them.

After making sure she was her attire was back to her standard of being comfortable it seemed Miriko was happy for now."Yes,I think I will be okay to return now."It seemed she was also just telling herself that as well slightly since she did have to do this with herself at times to make her continue on figuratively, Miriko: the painter, beauty always just making herself around for creative ventures. Always had her worries that people at times viewed that she was only popular just not for her works, when it was entirely for her work she wanted to be remembered. But she got up form where she was sitting and started to walk back out to join the rest of them.

As for the conversation outside."I am not worried about how you are, For I gather you, as most people here are harmless towards Miriko."Alistair mentioned in general. For he might watch over the meek painter, only because he understood how people worked and could mention it."Best advice, give Miriko sometime to be around you and give her the space she needs, I promise you she will be much more friendly."Alistair mentioned as a safe and logical way for Daiko to maybe be around Miriko.

Alistair seemed delighted so far with how he was explaining things to Daiko and whoever else would listen, because it seemed fairly simple maybe to see it off of her reaction, but the misunderstanding."In the end Miriko has yet to really express hate in anyone."Or if she has, Miriko was not openly showing it around Alistair.  but alas maybe that was better and helpful towards learning how to interact with Miriko, Not that she was hard to get along with once you kind of get the weird factor of her out of the way.

But Miriko took this experience differently at this point, she was learning about family she never thought up front she had before. After all side from her mother and Tempris, She only just knew her father's name and that was it, maybe that was somethings that effected her in some way that she did not know about thus she just kind of managed and got by.

But now she saw a lot more family then she ever expected, Even then she had no idea how to deal with small children, But she would keep that to her self. However Miriko would not be rude, Even if she was not much of a drinker she would take the wine glass and after toast take the smallest of sips of it, As it if she was not trying to be rude but not show she was not overly fond of anything with alcohol in it. "It seems, with joining a new guild, I learn more and more of the people out there I am related too."Miriko said casually about it. to Alistair still quietly watching as he always does.

It seemed in the end Miriko would be content and settled into her choices about what happen and moving over here, Then again safer then to end up here in a guild rather then just casually strolling upon the lands as she normally did with out a guild brand for it might cause her more problems.

At least in her mind but for now, Miriko just had to not think about the what if's for she had settled into it for now, Since she had made a choice that for once did feel a bit right and ease with in her mind. For now she did not have much to think about with the rest of the day, she could enjoy these drinks and be delighted she had another place she could stay at, Then she could casually go about her normal life while learning about other parts of her family.

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