<span style="color: #BFFF00">Rosewoode smiled at Reggie. She had heard of the family but it meant nothing to her. As she gracefully stood up the aura surrounding her body changed. The inner aura was now sparkling as well as being yellow.<br/><br/>"Miss Naureen Rose Merrieweather of the village in the middle of no where, nestled in a mountain ridge, graduate of Academy of Magical Studies at your service if you have need of my services which it seems to be that I, too have been hand selected. As to why, I suppose that my services are very much needed for this journey and task at hand, I'd assume since much time and work went into finding me. However, I am not of the high class or rank of such as your family, Reginald Vincent Alexander the 15th, but I am pleased to meet your acquaintance and be one of your fellow travelers." Naureen curtsied to Reggie formally with her head lowered due to her rank being much lower than hers.<br/><br/>She then rose and stood in front of Joseph. She smiles as her aura once again changed. </span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFBF00">"Yes, Joseph, I have decided to join even before I arrived here tho I hate to say that your city does need my services here as well. I did clean up one alley but I am sure that it is under a new management that is roughly going to be the same as it was before. I daresay that your need of me in your travels and my need of traveling will come first. I sold off my farm and all that I have to a school mate that needed a place and Fiona is much more likely to succeed there than I am. Too many old memories, I am afraid. How ever, my money shall go to the academy for they took me in when my parents died of the great flu epidemic a number of years back. They raised me and taught me for free since I had nothing. Now I can give back to them some of the money and time they used to make me what I am. I shall have Archemedes take the news to the head master and then I can tell you where to place my money. <br/>As far as money goes....I do not have a large need of money for I have what I need either on me or on my pack horse. I doubt that I will need a new body part but perhaps I am wrong. I am glad for the money however for I can give it to the Academy and they can use it to help another needy student. I have taken a few oaths and am blood bonded to honer them with my life.  The oaths are my own and as such, I do not speak of them to many. I only hope to do my best to serve you well enough to earn that money which you are putting up."<br/>She walked to the center of the room and looked at each one in turn. Then began to speak in a clear yet low voice.<br/>"I have called the lot of you ruffians. And yes even you Reginald Vincent Alexander the 15th for you ride on the shirt tails of your esteemed family name. Have any of you strived to do better than your parents? Have you taken time to look at your self not in a mirror but into a picture of what you could be and decide to do what ever it took to make the world a better place by going out of your way to do something just for the greater good of the Earth that you have lived on?  I hope to find out that each of you have and that you will raise your status in my eyes. I only know that each of you came into this room smelly and dirty like a ruffian so I call you what I see in you. Please feel free to prove me wrong in this." Naureen took another look around at each of them.<br/>"As for my manners and ways of doing things as I do, I give credit mostly to the Academy that raised me after my parents died when I was just 11. I could not cure them or my valley of that flu and after I was done weeping, I wanted to be a healer. That is what I have strived to do since. I worked my way thru school even the summers, to earn what I needed to make my dream come true. My life is dedicated to healing and that alone.</span><br/><br/>Naureen stood still before she headed to her seat in the corner but a rapping was at the door. It was a rhythmic kind of tapping where upon Naureen opened the door. A large white owl flew inside and around the room is a graceful circle while Naureen picked up her staff and the owl landed upon the top of it. Silently, she reached out her hand to it's leg and took off a scroll off the leg of the owl. She then pull out a large mouse out of her fanny pack and tossed it into the air. The owl quickly snatched it out of the air then landed back on the staff to eat the mouse.<br/><br/><span style="color: #BF4000">"This is Archmedes the second, a very intelligent owl. He has carried my mail for me the last two years. His father before him was Archemedes the first."</span><br/>Naureen went to her seat to read her note quietly.<br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i325/TheCreator7/0-Naureen%20Rose%20Merrieweather/owl4.jpg">[ img ]</a>