A new wardrobe and a warning

with the help of the horses it only took them one day to get to the next town. they traveled with no other incidents.

When they arrived Ivan got them a room at a tavern located in the center of town. Next they sold the horses at the city stables. After selling the horses and the bandit's equipment Ivan then took Bradin to the tailor of the town.

Ivan asked Bradin what his favorite color was, and Bradin said green. He always liked the color of the plants he saw in the moss houses.

Ivan told the tailor and he pulled out all his green clothing. They got Bradin three light green shirts, five olive green breach cloths, and four forest green pairs of trousers.

Ivan also insisted on getting Bradin some new boots. Once they had bought everything, the tailor let Bradin use a changing room to get dressed in his new clothing.

Ivan looked around the tailor shop wail he waited for Bradin. As he was wandering around the shop something caught his eye. on a table between two bolts of fabric was a small coin pouch.

Ivan recognized it as the same type of pouch, that he had on him. It had a shadow magically sewn into it allowing a small pouch to hold a much larger amount depending on how big the shadow that was used was.

He asked the tailor about it, and struck up a bargain. just as Bradin came out of the changing room, Ivan had just settled on a price of one copper coin. Ivan paid the tailor for the pouch and they left the shop.

"here." Ivan said handing the pouch to Bradin "I already have enough of these. i bought this one for you to hold your stuff in."

"how does it work?" Bradin asked

"it doesn't take any magic, if that is what you where worried about. the only magic that is used is when the pouch was made after that all you have to do is reach inside and pull out whatever you put in it."

"how much can this pouch hold?" asked Bradin

"i checked it out in the tailor's shop. i should be able to hold at maximum, something around the size of a table top."

Bradin looked at the pouch that was the size of his fist.

"how do you get something inside if its bigger than the mouth of the pouch?" he asked

"all you have to do is stick part of the item inside the opening and it will be sucked inside." came the answer

Bradin looked skeptical until he managed to get the corner of the package holding his new clothing in the mouth of the pouch. in an instant the package disappeared inside the pouch.

"cool. thank you for the pouch Ivan." Bradin said

"no worries, all part of the job as your sponsor." Ivan said with a smile. "now my friend that can take us to the Earthmother's temple won't be hear for two more days. we got here faster thanks to those horses. so for now we will relax and wait for them to arrive."

"alright." Bradin said

they wandered the town exploring and window shopping. when the sun went down they headed back to the tavern and had dinner. after dinner they headed to their room and Ivan had Bradin practice his magic with the stones.

Bradin still only knew the one spell but he could cast it better than Ivan could. this was because Ivan was mainly an ice mage with a little air magic mixed in. air and water magic didn't mix too well with earth magic, so Ivan had to exert more energy for earth spells.

Bradin it seemed could cast it with little difficulty so his magic must at least be compatible with earth magic. Ivan would have to wait for Bradin to be tested until he would know where Bradin's strengths lied.

Once they both where tired from the practice, they both undressed to their breach cloths and climbed into the two beds in the room to sleep. Keeping up with habit Bradin hummed his lullaby and they both where soon deep in sleep.

after some time had passed something in the shadows of the room moved. the shadows looked like they where boiling. after a few seconds the figure of a man came out of the shifting shadows. the figure moved over to Bradin's bed and looked down at him.

as the figure stood there a soft male voice said "it won't be long now and you will join me. get strong quickly, learn all you can at my sister's temple, you will need it."

then back into the shadows the man vanished, leaving only a dark room and two deeply sleeping mages.