The sound of boots clattering against the carved stone path below Equan filled through the air, meshing along with the countless other people in the Northern Freznov Market district at that time.
Kaylynn who was practically dragging Equan along by the leather armor around his wrist: Was mumbling something unhearable in the crowds of people at what Equan could have sworn was noon in the packed shopping district, but he was so tired that he couldn't really come to a logical conclusion such as that.
Equan himself was wearing a straw hat with his medium length knotted black hair hidden beneath the hat in hopes of concealing his identity as Actor, the Coliseum Gladiator of Seh Jenah.
If this were another world, Equan would have been freely exposed of his identity and flaunting his status in the streets of the city, but he sadly knew better than that, as the look that Chase had at the pavilion showed that this was dreadfully not another world.
Equan nearly stumbled over his own boots between two jesters who had gone sprinting through the crowd of people.
'The hell?' Equan thought, before feeling a strange static sensation rummaging through his prefrontal cortex.
He felt like throwing up with how many overstimulating things were going on simultaneously, but he persisted having gotten used to any feelings of energy or static.
This adaptation had simply came with the affinity that Equan and his family had held for decades. Although he had not been born with such a gift as to withstand thousands of volts of electricity at once. In fact, Equan could feel the energy from even his weakest abilities, when he had been in grade school and first accumulated his much expected affinity, which his family had prepared him for since near infancy: Equan had been playing in a lake with some of his friends, and as many know when electricity and large bodies of water mix...
Fortunately none of his childhood friends had been in the water at that exact moment, but Equan hadn't been so lucky... As even though he had been exposed to electric torture since he was a toddler, the energy outburst from his accumulation had been enough to kill the entire ecosystem inside of the lake and even the animals that would visit for a supply of hydration were fried alive when just touching the water.
Equan had immediately gone unconscious in reaction to his dangerous accumulation, putting him under the ocean of electricity, slowly descended to the bottom of the lake's bed, as the voltage of the water threatened frying his undeveloped brain.
But because he was a child of the great clan of Lightning, which the clan referred to themselves as the Astrapi on the inside: Help came in time, so when his mother and priestess of the Astrapi arrived...
Equan recalled his mother retelling the memory of the arrival, and how the lake had been shrouded in a golden storm...
"Earth to Equan!?" Kaylynn kicked the archer in the shin, instantly shocking him out of his trance.
They were standing in the shade underneath a large mangrove tree in the center of the shopping district, this location seemed to be a large tourist point of interest, as it was surrounded by ten or so different blocks with extravagant and flashy stores on every side of the octagon shaped pathway between everything.
Countless people filled the streets, some dressed of costumes with masks to even full suits of armor with many in expensive attire as well.
It was a varied mix of many different types of people as Equan could see people who were clearly from Solis, and even more who had the look of an Equusian.
"Where do you think sells healing items?" Kaylynn asked, holding a hand over her eyes as she surveyed the shops around them.
"I doubt what were looking for is in a healing shop..." Equan grumbled, fixing the aviator sunglasses over his own eyes.
"Than enlighten me..." Kaylynn turned to Equan with a frown and the slump of her shoulders.
Her brunette hair was tied back with a flower and a deep green tether of silk, as her light mage armor that struck of dark iron and emerald trimming covered everything from her neck to her gauntlet covered hands. Yet somehow, she moved with an impossible swiftness underneath the heavy appearing armor.
Equan scratched his chin as the wind gently tugged against the straw hat on his head.
"I would say like an herb shop... Ya know? We're trying to reverse the affects of a disease not really heal someone..." He muttered through the exhaustion of having been sleeping on a cramped wooden floor for the last however many weeks.
"Fine... Let's go to that one." Kaylynn mumbled, pointing at a shop with a large mossy overhang with countless different variations of flowers within ceramic pots out and around the shop.
Vines were strung from the rafters inside from what Equan could see through the large clear windows at the front of the shop.
As the two walked through a large parade of musicians towards the shop, the aroma that resembled the jungle oasis within the mountains of Frostfang: Struck Equan's breath.
He almost fainted at first, sensing the terrible reminder of something that he had tried so desperately to forget...
"You okay?" Kaylynn asked, stopping to a halt in the direct center of the parade, which for some reason everyone seemed to just move around the two of them, not even bothering to tell them to get out of the way... Or even pay them the benefit of a glance.
Equan shook his head and felt the muscles in his face start to tremble as the nerves around his nose suddenly flared up and then...
Zap...
Kaylynn yelped as several sparks of golden electricity shot out from Equan's nostrils.
"What the hell is wrong with you!?" Kaylynn yelled, kicking him in the shin again, meanwhile Equan could no longer feel any sensation of smell, as the sense had been completely eradicated by Equan himself, having used his affinity to remove another...
After all, he was on a mission for a friend's sake... He had no time to think upon his past.