The Adkynn Report (Adkynn, Yvette)

[Yvette Jooren]

(huuuhuuhuu see what i did there)

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Yvette was at her desk, finishing paperwork. Ugh! Why did such responsability come with so much paper work! She wanted to go out and do stuff! Make sure her town was 100% crime free and stuff. She wanted to show off to the recruits and spend some time with her special guard - her elite forces. She also wanted to check on the dragons. But no, the council had shoved piles and piles of paperwork to do. This was not what she signed up for.

Distracted, she looked at the Deserter files. It was a list of people who have simply 'disappeared', and not by the military's doing either. With strict border controls, only those with a difficult to aqcuire merchant's permit could leave the land. The mountains were blocked off by dragon riders and the Raider Unit. There weren't many deserters, but some had found their way out. Yvette found it both annoying and curious. She wanted to know who they got out. They must have been smart. Though for some cases, before she had got power, the systems were a lot more relaxed. She had a lot of respect for these escapees, but at the same time, the rules had been set and when found, they will be punished. They will be found.

Suddenly one of the Articul servants burst through the door, surprising Yvette and knocking her pot of ink over, spilling black substance everywhere. She cursed loudly and erupted from her seat, more at the blotches spattered on her preciously-finished paperwork than the boy.

"Argh! Quick! Get something to clean this up before it stains and gets everywhere!" Ink was already oozing on the floor. The poor lad hesitated, he was supposed to be delivering a message to Miss Joore.

"Uhm..." He was going to interject, but was met with an urgent deathglare. Those frigid eyes almost petrified him, if they hadn't intimidated him to get a move on. He stammered himself into silence before disappearing. Yvette quickly rushed to the washbasin in her office and used the towel that was hung nearby. About time, that rag was needed for a change anyway. The boy quickly returned with cleaning stuff. He set the stuff down and then saw what Yvette had done. "Oh- That's the Articul's finest..." He got cut off again by her glance.

"Clean this mess. This is your doing." His superior ordered bitterly, going to rid her hands of ink. "You're supposed to knock and be let in."

"I-I'm sorry Ma'am," He started, as well as beginning to work. He was told about her reputation and he was now fearing that today was going to be his last day. "It's my first day, Ma'am. I was sent to deliver you a message." He managed to finally cut that part in. Getting in trouble here and also not doing the job he was asked to do could cause serious trouble. It was his dream to be a part of the guards, and he needed to start somewhere... Yvette was piqued by this, and made a motion with her hand to finally allow him to speak further. "Yes, Ma'am. I was told to tell you that someone called Adkynn has arrived in the courtyard of the Articul. She wishes to see you."

The Captain rushed to the window. She saw that orange-coated Nadder of hers being lead away for food and such things. Yvette tweaked a smile. It had been a while since they had spoken.

[Adkynn Vhardenhal & Copper]

Nothing had changed in Red Rock, nothing ever changed. Well, things changes all the time it was just changes that the people never saw.

Adkynn walked down the streets with Copper at her side, making their way down to the Articul that laid at the end of the road that they traversed across. She could feel a smile tug at the corners of her lips as they continued to draw closer and closer to the seat of the towns government. Then large fortess of a castle was always an impressive sight to see, and it still impressed Adkynn every time she saw it. The thick walls that surrounding the perimiter of the castle, then the towers that rose from the ground to the sky as if to reach for the clouds. The actual castle itself was none more impressive then the rest, the large dome that laid over top of what would be the throne room, the many windows that were scattered across the walls of the castle made it seem like you could see everything inside from the outside.

As the pair made it to the start of the bridge that crossed over the river that cut the Articul off from the rest of the town, (Yes, I'm putting a river in Red Rock now) and she looked over to the guards that approached her from the midway point on the bridge. She nodded her head and smiled at them as they approached, giving the all clear for her to continue once they noticed who it was. Adkynn and Copper continued their way across the stone bridge and up to the gates. They opened up quickly and the pair ventured inside before the gate shut behind them and left them in the courtyard of the Articul.

Adkynn glanced around and noticed one of the servants, "Hey! You!" She yelled out to the boy as she caught his attention, "Go find Yvette for me and tell her that Adkynn is here to talk to her."

She was the nod of the boys head before he made his way inside the castle, now all they had to do was wait.

As Adkynn waited around she noticed one of the more known and more liked servant girls walk by her, "Teresa! Could you be a dear and do something for me?" Adkynn asked curiously as Teresa walked over to her. Teresa wasn't that much younger than Adkynn herself, likely only a year or two.

"What is it you need Ma'am?" She asked with a smile on her face.

"Could you quickly braid my hair for me? Nothing fancy, I'd just like it collected together is all." Adkynn asked with a kind smile on her face and she saw the nod of Teresa's head as she walked behind Adkynn and began to braid her hair back. Usually Adkynn didn't braid her hair and she just let it free on it's own, but it was bugging her today so might as well tame it.

It didn't take very long before Adkynn saw Yvette walk out the front doors of the Articul and towards her, at the same time Teresa finished the braid and patted Adkynns shoulder, "Thank you dear." Adkynn said and motione gently for Teresa to head off. Adkynn looked back towards Yvette and put her hands behind her back, "Well, there's a face I haven't seen in some time. How have you been?"

[Yvette Jooren]

Yvette left the lackey to clean up the mess, and rushed down to the courtyard. She slowed her gait slightly, she needed to look professional, after all. That, and she had a reputation. Acting super giddy at the arrival of a good friend of hers was going going to make her peers take her seriously. They had eyes everywhere, after all.

"Adkynn!" She greeted with a smile, hugging her Best-Friend-Forever-With-Government-Backing. "Yes! It has been a long time! You will have to catch me up on your adventure with Copper! Come! Let's get a drink!" Yvette proceeded to lead Adkynn into the maws of the Articul, to a small office she knew of. Her main officy-office was a bit of a mess right now, and was definitely not presentable. She motioned a hand for Adkynn to sit whilst she prepared them a good drink. Fancy glass bottles sat in rows on the shelf. She picked an expensive-looking one with a golden liquid in, pouring two small portions for both of them, enough to get the tongue waggling for a while.

Yvette came and sat down with her. "So! Tell me everything! I'm sure whatever you have stumbled across is more exciting than this heap of rocks." She encouraged. There was a subliminal side to it too, though. She had assigned Adkynn a job whilst she was out there. She wasn't just going to let anyone go outside of Red Rock's territory, after all, espcially for just recreational purposes. It just wasn't the done thing. And if one person could do it, then everyone else would want to as well. And, well, Yvette didn't want to think of the consequences. She didn't want her perfect little world to be ruined by a small mistake.

[Adkynn Vhardenhal & Copper]

Adkynn smiled as Yvette guided her into the Articul itself. As they walked into the main doors she glanced around at the familiar pieces of artwork that lined the hall, quickly her gaze was brought back to Yvette as they made their way to her office of sorts. Once they arrived Adkynn was shown a seat that she could occupy, and she did so with pleasure as she took her seat in the chair. When handed the glass of liquid she smirked and took a small sip of it, it stung with a strong taste at first before it slowly died away after first contact.

"Well, I must say I did not expect so many different villages to be so far into the northern seas. Adkynn started off with, "And of course there was some more larger then others, particularly Hysteria and Berk. She said as it had quickly rolled off her tongue. She smiled to herself as she looked around to some of the various objects and pictures hanging up on the walls of Yvettes office. "But of course, as one might say. Nothing in all the lands can compare to the beauty of Red Rock. She agreed and disagree with such a statement. Red Rock was a very pleasant view to the eyes, but there were other places that could bring no air to someones lungs if they were to see it.

"There wasn't a whole whack of things that were of true intrest. I mean I helped a younger boy learn how to properly hold a sword, figured out that Berk had a decent amount of weapons, and that living in what might as well be a shack is not fun especially in Berk. Adkynn added in with the rest of her previous comments.

[Yvette Jooren]

Yvette listened to Adkynn, looking mostly at the glass in her hand. "Heh," She said in response to the vast number of habitated islands to the north. She swished her glass, observing the alchohol that remained on the sides. It probably was a good job she didn't drink this too often. "Hysteria and Berk, eh? Strange names for settlements." Adkynn proceeded to compliment the wonder that was their nation. Yvette smiled and flapped her free hand. "Oh please. You don't need to be an asskisser around me, we're buddies!" Yvette was a little bit jealous that Adkynn still had the freedom to go around and explore. Yvette used to explore, but now with her job and her position she couldn't really do much anymore. Even her dragon was restless for a voyage, even though it enjoyed skulking around town picking up rumours and generally spying on people. A fun little job for a Changewing.

Adkynn also talked about the armoury of Berk. Apparently it was impressive enough.Probably not what thr Articul has, but the way Adkynn said it, it sounded like a fun target. But that wasn't really why she had sent Adkynn out into the wide, dangerous world. "So, you're telling me this... Berk place has a good set of weapons, but their defenses and training aren't up to par?" She looked at Adkynn, and decided to fill in the blank based on her observation. "So they specialise in Dragon combat? Right? Good to know." It was one of the Red Rock agendas, after all, to sort of create their own Empire and get back at Rome for leaving them behind when they retreated behind Hadrian's wall. Not that the general public knew that side of the story.

"Hey! That reminds me!" Yvette suddenly exclaimed. "You know you're looking for those Deserters right? There's one I need you to bring back. Ugh, what was his name..." She clicked her fingers at Adkynn, as if that would help shake the name out of her memory. "Ugh! You know! The one you said you had a crush on, but he was already taken? Argh! Come on, erm, he had some sort of weird, foreign name, like Sjörn, no..." Adkynn corrected her. "YES! That's right! Sven Vellyn! So close!" She took a victory gulp. "Yeah! I need you to bring him back here. He's a smart kiddo, he was drafted into the Articul's education program, as you know. He's been travelling, so, I want to know what he knows. So I need him back alive... You haven't killed him off, have you?" She asked, with a hint of worry.

[Adkynn Vhardenhal & Copper]

Adkynn smirked to herself as she listened to Yvette mention something about not being an asskisser while around her, "There are eyes everywhere, and some people that would like to remove 'non nationalistic' from our government. I wouldn't want to be caught in the middle of that now would I? Besides, Red Rock can be full of liars and thieves every now and then, you and I both know that pretty clear." She stated as she took another small sip from the cup that was in her hand. Adkynn knew better than to make a mockery of Red Rock, things happened to people that did and they were not all so pleasant either.


Yvette continued on about Berk and how they specialized in dragon combat from what Adkynn continued to tell her. She glanced over to the window in the small office before returning her gaze back to Yvette when she started talking about someone she had a crush on before, Sven? She thought at first before Yvette was finally able to spit out a name, Sven. Adkynn placed the drink on a small table that rested next to her and tapped her fingers on the wooden surface, "No. I haven't killed him off yet, I didn't plan to either." She looked out the corner of her eye to Yvette, "I figured he would prove valuable in some way, so I kept him alive and off the mainland. Just so he doesn't get to... sketchy around here I suppose." Adkynn turned her head forward and smiled at Yvette as she stood up and slowly made her way over to the window, leaning herself against the edge of it and glancing out onto the landscape that surrounded the Articul. "Thankfully we keep tabs on everyone from Red Rock that's off the island. Aside from a few individuals of course.


Gazing back to Yvette, Adkynn turned around and walked over to her desk, "You know, you should come with me to get Sven. Would get you out of this castle for once in a billion years right?" She suggested and she looked around at the paper work that was laid out on the desk, most of it was quick scribbling from what she could make out from a momentary gaze but it was unimportant right now.

[Yvette Jooren]

Yvette shrugged at Adkynns justification. Yvette pretty much was the eyes of the Articul. Anyone who dared lend their eyes to someone else, whoever that might be, would be found and dealt with. They were rather easy to find, anyway. Any exterior merchants were always escorted, so no one could pass the word to the outside.

As Adkynn replied to her demands, her head snapped onto Adkynns at the first response. She *chose* not to kill him? What the heck? She had her directive. She was meant to follow it. But once again her justification made her happy. Yvette was glad she chose Adkynn for the mission. She had initiative. And she knew Sven too, anyway. It wouldn't be fair of her to dispose of a friend. "Good job. Because we've been talking about our intelligent folks a few weeks ago. We need Sven back. He has information we want and information that we don't want let loose."

Adkynn offered an invited to collect him. "Hah! That would be nice. I need some sort of holiday... Though going North wasn't the first place I'd go for time off. I guess that can't be helped. But you're forgetting one thing." With that Yvette moved and took a set opposite Adkynn. "Sven's been eluding us for years. Everytime we get whiff of him, and go to the location, he's never there, already gone a step ahead of us. You should know him better than I do, especially if you met like you said. He obviously still has that gorgeous dragon of his. If we can nab his dragon too, that would be an excellent bonus." She remembered seeing that thing one time. She had already heard about that dragon taking residence, and she was determined to go and capture and train it herself, but the boy had got to her first! Being taught no less than the old ex-dragon knight himself!

"Sven is also jealously witholding information about dragons from us. Any information that can help the Red Rock cause is vital. His rejection to help us brands him traitor, so of course he'll be executed after we've got what we want... You don't mind do you? I mean, you had a crush on him... If you want I suppose we could organise something... A personal slave, perhaps?" Yvette shrugged. "Up to you. I'm going on a tangent now. We need to be prepared. I'll need you to scout, make sure he stays. Winter is coming, I don't want a small fleet stuck in the ice for six months and by the end of it he's moved off again, you know what I mean. This needs to be on the utmost downlowest of lows. No one needs to know, the news must not spread, at all costs. You tell your men what the deal is when you get close enough and you're extra certain that Sven hasn't buggered off to warmer isles. You need to detain him, and an escort fleet will take him home. He's been on an island full of dragon-riding vikings for a while, hasn't he? He will have surely made some friends who will try and come to his aid."




I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY lol    

[Adkynn Vhardenhal & Copper]

Adkynn nodded, more to herself than to Yvette. They both knew, and so did many others in the Articuls service, that Sven was an intelligent individual with records on hand that would benefit Red Rock greatly.

"Well. Maybe he wouldn't bugger off if we didn't sail a fleet to the location he is at with our banners flying for people to see miles and miles away. " Adkynn suggested with a slight grin on her face as she finished off the drink in her hands. She placed the glass down on a table that rested next to her and glanced back to Yvette. "It would be nice if Red Rock would get our stealth flyers trained, we both know how extremely useful they would be, especially for a situation such as this. " Adkynn commented. The stealth flyers were a group of dragon riders the Articul had been training for quite some time now, their job is obvious, get in and out of places without anyone noticing and while doing it fairly quickly. She raised an eyebrow when she heard the comment about Hermes, "And I have to agree with that. His dragon is one of a kind, truly. I've never seen any other member of the speices aside from that one. "

Adkynn rose from her seat and walked over to Yvettes desk, looking around at some of the papers and trinkets she had laid out on it. She picked up a document and read over it curiously as Yvette continued to speak about how Sven was considered a traitor known and how she made comment about how Adkynn once had a crush on Sven. She placed the paper down on the desk and smirked at Yvettes next following comments, "A slave? Well, I think he'd be pretty deffient on such a thing. But either way he wouldn't just be serving drinks if he was. " She raised her eyebrow and her smirk turned to a grin to see if Yvette caught what she meant. "But I know what you mean about being quick with this entire operation. I can make my way back to Berk if need be, but if I do I'm not taking a lousy boat again, terribly slow and uncomfortable to be quite honest. But I doubt that he will be leaving the island any time soon, he's established himself too much there and people would question why he would just get up and leave if he were to do so. " Adkynn made sure Yvette was aware of what she just said to make it blatantly clear to her. "Time is ticking away and we need to get things done quickly. "