Master Of None

The night went on as Zephyr cave a full tour to the spirits that remained behind. The fire spirits found a nice home in the kitchen claiming the oven as their resting place. Luckily, Walker's mother had already been told what the elemental spirits were and would not to too alarmed when she woke up to stoke the fires. However, she was going to find that the fire that normally would be down to embers might still be ablaze. 

The water spirits found the tranquility of the pond on the training area to be ideal. The lily that had been growing was still delicate but the mana from the water spirits seemed to calm it further. The party would be likely to find it growing much better in the future and even produce more flowers. 

The wind spirits had decided that they owned the skies around the house. Zephyr had made clear to them that she was the ruler of all the skies around here and the only thing they could not mess with was the pure light griffin since it flew in the skies as well. 

The only spirits that did not stick around were the light elemental spirits. They had gone directly to the pure light griffin due to the elemental mana they sensed from it. They could not leave that dense mana alone.. This was a slight annoyance to the pure light griffin but in its' realm, it was used to these kinds of things. 

The earth spirits found refuge in the ground of the garden. There was a consistent amount of mana constantly flowing due to the care of all the plants in the garden. It made the soil easier for them to mold for their bodies and relax. They in turn brought more natural mana around to cause all the plants to begin to grow slightly faster and produce better quality fruits and flowers. 

The dark spirits followed the earth spirits. They enjoyed the shadows that were created from the large plants that filled the garden. It gave them many places to hide in the shadows and bask in the cool darkness. There was also the benefit of the additional natural mana that they brought causing some of the dark affinity herbs and plants to grow more in the night. 

This was all very pleasant and the spirits would fit in around the mansion without issue. The story was radically different when it came to the spirits that had rushed to explore. Normally, people would be more accepting of new things. The elemental spirits were not something that was necessarily common knowledge, however, some people had read about them in stories. 

With the recent attack of demons that had already been explained as corrupt and now rescued, people were understandably confused and on edge. Most had been told that demons were evil and that ended with the common folk to be touchy. Add the spooky stories often told around the harvest festivals and there is added feeling of fear around. 

The darkness elemental spirits that had left the mansion found their enjoyment in the night guards that were watching the walls. They fell in to the shadows and caused them to become abnormally shaped. This led to the guards reporting abnormal shadows and multiple guard captains being alerted. They filed constant reports of this occurrence until a guard reported a ghost leaving a shadow. 

The fore spirits found homes in many of the forge furnaces and were welcomed with a lot more fervor. This was because any blacksmith would recognize the fire spirits from the constant stories that were told about them. It was just a common story in the trade. 

The wind spirits were causing mist with the water spirits. They made a game of causing the mist to take up entire streets so that the only thing heard was walking through them. There was no sightline available. The people walking and transporting at night found themselves shivering with fear and worry every misty street they found. 

The earth spirits through out the city were much more calm and started to find gardens to rest in and help grow. The only issue this was that a little girl that could not sleep saw one of the spirits moving through the garden and began telling her parents that there was a mud imp in the garden. The guards were called who found nothing and the entire street was alerted to be safe. 

The harvest festival was only in a day but there were already many new rumors and stories traveling. It was just enough to cause a ruckus in the mansion in the morning which woke Walker up earlier than he had planned. 

"What's going on? I heard you guys from my room." Walker was heading right in to the dining hall for breakfast only to find Su and Gil talking about what they had heard so far. 

"Walker, apparently there are ghosts and mud imps and living shadows roaming the city now. Some people are saying that the harvest festival ghosts are coming back earlier this year because of the crops burning. But even crazier, the farm lands that had burned are already growing back a little. Some guards and adventurers said there ar harvest festival wild flowers sprouting." Gil was beside himself. He had grown up in the farms making the harvest festival a very big deal. He wholeheartedly believed many 

"Just because there are a lot of people out earlier than usual spreading seasonal stories doesn't mean that there are ghosts roaming about the kingdom. It's obvious that they are all because of the elemental spirits we awakened yesterday night." Su had already found the logic but Gil was not convinced. 

Walker grabbed himself something to eat and enjoyed the conversation of the two trying to convince the other of what was right and what was wrong. When Elise entered with Stella and the baby crow was then things got interesting. "What is the harvest festival all about here? I have never been around to see it? 

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