Sir Esther Helen Evelyn's Story

Teddy had gone into a deep sleep, unaware of Ebba's current predicament. He just laid there, snoozing.

Meanwhile, a woman clad in white armor had neared the hotel that Teddy and Ebba were staying in. She had stopped a few yards from the entrance, looking up at the complex, as she was amazed that the building had somewhat survived the attack. She had entered the building and looked upon the crying manager. There was nothing she could really do for him, but she there was one thing she wanted to know.

She had walked to the manager, "Excuse me, sir," She begun, "But have you seen a young man with pale blonde hair and blue eyes, wearing black armor, speaks with a Kalosian accent?"

"Is that the accent that he spoke in?" The manager replied, "Yes, he was with a girl, I gave them key cards for their room, but I'm certain they are asleep right now. Do you know him?"

"I'm a friend of his," the woman replies as she turned, taking a moment to listen to the room numbers Teddy and Ebba were staying in. She had ascended the stairs with a definite sound in her steps. She had come to the hall and saw the girl sleeping on the floor in front of the door. Judging by her outlandish garb, the woman concluded she must not be too familiar with technology. She then stepped to Ebba and squats down. She set a hand onto Ebba's shoulder and began to gently nudge it. "Hello, madam," She had begun, "Do you need help getting into your room?"

While Ebba was physically sleeping on the floor, she was unconsciously inside her dreamscape. Here, her three personalities could easily interact with her. This happened every time she slept but she would always be well rested whenever she woke up.

"I-I'm sorry Ebba that we could not open that...door thing...Magic is my specialty and well...we never seen these strange things." Lazarus spoke with a bow.

"D-Don't worry Lazarus...I-Its fine...the fur ground is...really soft..." Ebba quickly replied.

"This time miss genius could not figure it out." Supinity laughed as she eyed Celeste.

"And I did not see you come up with any genius plans. Breaking down the door would cause more trouble for Ebba." Celeste replied as she eyed her back.

"Now, now. We are not going to use this time to argue, its time to rain everyone. We have a nigh ahead of us and...Oh my, looks like we may have to cut this..." Lazarus and the other two faded away as an unknown woman began to nudge Ebba awake.

She soon slipped from her dreamscape and slowly opened her eyes. She was a little tired but of course she was on edge when she saw the unknown woman. "R-R-Room...S-S-Sure..." She stuttered as she slowly hid her face behind one of her arms as she handed her the keycard with the other. Another stranger, she was scared but she had nowhere to hide. But...she seemed nice...

What a shy creature, Esther thought as she accepted the key card. "This device next to the door," She instructed, then swiping the card across the slit in the lock, unlocking the door, "You swipe the card in the slot on the thing."

She then turned to Ebba, looking at her, hoping inside her mind that she didn't have an abusive upbringing. She showed some of the signs. But for now, that would have to wait, she was probably safer with Teddy than with any parents she may have. "So I understand you came in with a young man that is addressed by, 'Teddy?" She asked, "I'm Sir Esther Helen Evelyn, I'm an old friend of his."

She looked at Ebba, looking at her strange clothing and her glowing headband, she must be from a warrior culture and unfamiliar with technology, she thought.

Meanwhile, Teddy had begun trying his hardest to ignore the noise outside.

Ebba watched with intent as the qoman used the keycard on the strange device near the door. When the door unlocked she smiled a tint bit, she was a nice lady, and she helped her out. Despite how scary plenty of people looked, lots of people seemed nice.

When the woman mentioned that she was a freind of Teddy, and that she had came with Teddy here she gave a small nod. "Y-Yes...I did come with Teddy...H-He was kind to help me...M-My name is Ebba then...H-Hello Esther." She spoke a little meekly but she seemed warm around her. If she was a freind of Teddy then she must have been nice like him.

Esther nodded too in return, she was wearing a face mask, so her smile is not visible to the girl. She then turned and walked in front of Teddy's door. She had hoped he was still a light sleeper as she clenched a fist and raised to eye level. She then began knocking her hand against the door and calling out, "Teddy," she voiced, "Come out."

Teddy's eyes then slowly opened, albeit low and the lids heavy. He had risen from his bed and began to pathetically hobble over to the door. First, Ebba was making noise in the hallway, and now she was calling him. He had began swearing what he would do if all she had to say was that she was feeling lonely. He pressed his body against the door, drifting between awake and asleep. "Come on, Ebba," Teddy groggily called in return, "Can't this wait until morning?"

"No, Teddy" Esther replied, raising her voice a tad so Teddy would realize who it was he was talking to, "It can't."

Teddy had lowered his head and was about to groan loudly, until he could finally distinguish the voice. He jolted awake, his head snapping upright. He then opened the door a crack quickly, just enough to peer his face through. "Esther?" he had cried out softly, "W-What are you doing here!? If the Knight Corps learns of you talking to me, they could-"

"Save it, private!" Esther had seemingly commanded, interrupting Teddy, then sighed a bit, "We're regretting ever turning our backs on you. We need you back. I'm being honest, this isn't some trick!" She had paused, before continuing, "It's just us, though, just me and the team."

Teddy had paused a bit, he had never seen Esther in emotion like this. "How badly?" He asked, he didn't mean to come off as cold, but the experience still hardened his heart, so plenty of resentment was in his voice, "I've got things to do."

"What kind of things!?" She had suddenly barked out, before catching Ebba from the corner of her eyes. Women, he always did several reckless things to impress a pretty face, or so Esther thought, "Oh... That charge you have there..."

"Not her," Teddy replied, causing Esther to quickly turn back to him, with a look of astonishment in her eyes. It was then she knew that Teddy was a different person than he once was. "Fate of two empires," He had begun, as if trailing off into a list, "Life of a king, reputation of soldiers, yada, yada, yada... You know."

Esther had looked at him a bit with a grey-ish expression, look at him with a blank stare, before detaching the face mask from her helmet, as well as removing the headgear. She just had to look at Teddy with her own eyes, "It's always something with you, isn't it?" She returned, a small smile appearing on her face, "You can take the kid out of the Knight Corps, but you can never take the Knight Corps out of him. You're very different than when you joined, cold and closed off, yes, but you're more mature now, a better person."

She had then turned and began to exit the hall, before she stopped and turned her head and called out to the two, "Stay safe, you two. Ebba, take good care of Teddy, I don't know if he's still a bit of a cry baby, but keep an eye on him, make sure he doesn't do anything rash."

The other Guardsman looked over at Dormon with a scoff. "Next time, the next one goes through your skull you frakking idiot." The man shook his head as they returned to their posts and began to brew some coffee.

Ebba slowly sat back up as she watched the woman and Teddy talking to eachother, she heard them a little bit. Knights? They were knights? She never knew what a knight was but Celeste and Supinity knew what they were. She remembered them talking about it once. They said knight were joble, freindly and honerable. They protect the weak and innocent with their lives. So far they lived up to what they said, always ready to defend her when she was in danger.

Teddy was also nice, and he made sure to watch over her. So...he was a nice knight. "Interesting, I guess we now know a bit more about him. A knight though, using strange weapons that makes bows pale in comparison..." Celeste added as the three listened on.

Of course, the conversation would soon come to an end as the woman began to leave. Before she left she told her out of all people to watch over him. If anything others should watch over her. But, she felt a little bit happy knowing that someone relied on her to help someone. She gave a small smile and nodded at her.

That night, Teddy had a rested in a dreamless sleep from that point on. He opened his eyes hours later, then walked to the window. He placed a hand on the curtains and brushed them aside, the fabrics gliding across the railing and revealing the morning sun. It really felt like he hadn't gotten much sleep. He was used to sleepless nights however, and his body adjusted to operate on less rest.

Today he planned to... well, start making plans. First, he'd see if he could ask someone in the Imperial Guard or a Space Marine how much trouble it would be to gain an audience from their empire's ruler. After he collected the knowledge he was looking for, he would consult Ebba's family and see what they would think. He mused to himself of his plan, but first, there was one thing he had to check.

He had exited his room and walked down the stairs at a corridor. He entered the lobby of the hotel, and there, he saw Esther had found herself a corner to sleep in. She really was serious about him wanting to return, or she must have decided to rest before going on her way. Possibilities aside, Teddy found this to be an opportune moment. "Hey, Esther," Teddy had tried to gently whisper to her, "What are you still doing here?"

"Mmm...?" Esther had mumbled, drifting awake underneath her face mask. She turned her head over to Teddy, "I was resting."

Teddy nodded, then continued, "How did you get here?"

"By ship...?" Esther replied, "Why?"

"I may need to go off world soon. I'm going to collect information soon here first though."

For Ebba, her sleep was filled with thoughts of training, advice, casual talking and many arguments by her three personalities. Her sleep may have been noisy but it was dreams like this every night which kept her company. She both enjoyed it and disliked it.

Once morning arrived, Ebba stretched awake with a quiet yawn. Along with the grumbling of her stomach. Right...did she eat these past few days? She kind of did, one of those Imerial Gurdman gave her some sort of food bar. It tasted weird but it was food. Other than that she had no money on her so she was shooed away by many shops when she had no money to pay for things. One man in particular offered her to one of the shelters by the Imerials but it had too much people inside so she did not want to stay in such a crowded and noisy place.

She wondered what to do now..."Maybe...O-One of those kind people...H-Have food..." She spoke as she remembered that she was heavily bandaged. One of her eyes were covered and many parts of her body was covered in a bandage. She soon got up and quietly walked up to the door of her room and went outside into the corridor.

She soon made her way into the Hotel lobby and noticed Teddy and the woman were already there. They looked like they were talking so she decided to sit on one of the chairs to see what she should do.

Dormon walks into the hotel lobby and up to Ebba, not knowing who she was and attempts at being nice "Hello, miss.. umm no one here will speak to me since... I'm a invader. What is the currency on this planet, I have to have somthing useful in my pod."

"Dormon looks at her with troubled eyes, hoping he won't be slapped like so many others have done" The Narrator says "SHUT UP." Dormon looks at the girl "Please?"

As Dormon walks up to Ebba, she visibly tenses up as a stranger decides to walk up to her out of all people. She was making herself not very out there but here he was deciding to walk with the very bandaged woman. She had no idea what he meant by 'curryency' and she had no idea how to respond. "U-U-Um...I-I-I dont know...I-I-I dont k-k-know curryency..." She replied however the woman near him spoke something and he then shouted at her which caused her to let out a small and quiet 'eep' as she scrambled behind the chair and hid behind it, shaking with fear.

Dormon sighed heavily "What the heck is curryency? I said currency, it means what type of money do you use on this world?" He looks at her with tired eyes. it didn't help that he was starving and felt a bit dizzy.

Ebba grew more scared as she timidly rose from behind her couch to look at the now scarier man. "I-I-I don't know what money is...P-P-Please...I-I-I don't like this...I don't k-k-know what curryency or m-m-money is..." Her voice grew weaker as she grew more scared. Of course, three personalities in her head were not very...happy knowing some bastard came up to her and was scaring the living daylights out of her.

"Give me the word Ebba! I'll tear his head off! I'll kick his face in if he does not leave you alone! Supinity growled as she seemed eager just to attack.

"If he trys something I am ready Ebba..." Celeste spoke calmly but there was a hint of irritation in her voice.

"I think we should calm down here...Sure she is scared but its not like he knows how shy she is right? In a few minutes I'm sure he will leave her alone." Lazarus spoke trying to calm the others.

Dormon looked at her "Are you frightened? I'm sorry if you are. Just tell me to go away and that will be it, I just need information about this place. That's it, ok?" He speaks softly, in a warming voice

"If you don't want to talk atleast point me to the most knowledgeable person you know. Ok?" she reminds him off his sister... so shy, cute, but easily broken if not already broken from last night.

Ebba snakingly pointed at Teddy as she pointed at the nice person who was helping her. Of course as the man had a much nicer voice she calmed down ever so slightly.

"Thank you very much" he says warmly. He his 1 eye that works could tell she was still uneasy "Did you live in the Gardens?"

He asks "you seem like someone who would. On my world, only the most beautiful got to live in our Gardens..." he waits and realizes she must not understand "I'm saying you are beautiful too" He looks at her body, bandaged. "If you want, the Knights have healers."

Ebba calmed down a bit more as the man did his best to be nice. Of course as he complimented her she gave a small blush. "U-U-Um...Thanks...I-I-I did sleep in the gardens plenty of...t-times...It was quiet and...nice...B-But I feel...better...T-The Imerial Gurdsman...Helped me...A-And Teddy comforted me..." She replied as she still hid behind the chair.

"Well thank you for the help, I owe you. If you ever need me, just go to a allyway. I'm sure I will be there for the rest of my life." Dormon walks away seeing that Teddy is busy.

Teddy's eyes wandered to Dormon leaving the hotel, but he had hesitated by the time he left. He looked lost and distressed, but Teddy couldn't save everyone, so he couldn't pursue him and leave Ebba all by her lonesome. He then looked back over at Esther, "Sorry for waking you up like that," he said, "I just had to know."

"It's okay, Teddy," Esther said, raising her voice a bit, "Now can I sleep? We'll talk later..."

Teddy nodded, Esther was too sleepy to really converse. He looked over at Ebba again, and turned to walk over to her. "Hey," he called out to her as he neared where she was sitting, "Did you have a good sleep? Resting in a set of armor you can't take off has to be uncomfortable."

Ebba slowly nodded as she tapped her fingers together. ”I’m...U-Used to it...And it keeps me s-safe...” She replied to Teddy. Of course, after enough time anyone would be used to sleeping, showering...Doing everything with a suit of armor on you. But at least she never felt lonely.

"So..." Teddy began, his curiosity had spiked about Ebba's family, as he wondered just what they did at night, "Do they keep you up at night, or do they sleep too?"

It would make sense that Celeste, Lazarus, and Supinity wouldn't need any sleep, but he was in a world of surprises, so he just had to expect something. When Lazarus crossed his mind again, he kind of started to feel that his wanting to talk to Ebba's family was just an excuse to see her again. He really, really hoped Supinity nor Celeste caught on to this.

”Actually...When I sleep I...Go into this dreamscape...” Ebba started as she actually had a small smile. ”It’s like a dream...Only I am aware...S-So inside this dreamscape...I can interact with my family...A-And they keep me company...Or talk...O-Or train...Celeste likes to train me...S-Supinity also likes to spar...B-But the two always butts heads...But I’m always rested...” She gave a small nod explaining her little sleeping endeavors.

Teddy nodded as he listened. This was interesting, she had access to a dream realm that was no doubt the creation of her family. This girl just kept getting stranger. There is no doubt that together, Ebba and her family could make quite the formidable force. At least, that was how Teddy saw it. He just hoped that if something did happen, Supinity and Celeste would be able to overcome their differences.

Thinking about her now, Teddy couldn't help but ask, "Do you think Supinity would enjoy combat sports?"

”I think she would...She enjoys combat so...M-Maybe.” Ebba responded. She was not one hundred percent sure, but more than likely her aggressive personality would enjoy it.

Teddy nodded as his reply. Maybe if he got Supinity introduced to at least some kind of distraction or outlet for her aggression, she wouldn't carry out her feelings or urges onto the others. But that would have to wait for now, he had other things to do. "Hey, Ebba," he began, "I'm planning to go off-world pretty soon, so I may have to leave you alone for a while. Do you think I could talk to your family and make plans to make sure you'll be safe while I'm away?"

Ebba slightly slouched what Teddy mentioned he would be leaving. The second only person she knew and he was going away for a while.”I-If you want...To talk...T-To them...S-Sure...Who do you want...To Speak to first?...” She asked.