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WHO: Hendrik & you (yes you & don't forget to tag in!)
WHEN: Mid April
WHERE: Around Ke-Waihu
WHAT: Training of sorts
WARNINGS: None

Hendrik had borrowed Sandbreaker from the Luminary and was testing it out. In one hand he held his axe which was his favoured weapon. In the other he held Sandbreaker. It was the only thing keeping his mind going, doing what he was good at which was keeping the boy safe. However, said boy was dealing with the loss of his friend, one Lily Evans.

The knight was friends with her as well and she was one of the ones that had acknowledged his return. For that kindness, he had been grateful. And it was only after she had disappeared that Hendrik learned the truth of what she and the Luminary had meant to each other.

He swung the sword up and down in the air, and then repeated the gesture with the axe. With a sigh, he then went back to weighing both weapons in his hands until he saw someone pass by. And in an effort to help his companion, he decided he would ask around.

Once Hendrik spotted someone close, he nodded at them and spoke in a concerned tone.

"Have you by chance heard of someone here by the name of Lily Evans??"

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The man's words bother him, but it was more an irritation of his own than anything his companion stated. If he returned once again without the Luminary, well he didn't want to consider that. However, it bothered him further to think that Lily might be in danger.

It wasn't something he'd asked Eleven about because the boy didn't seem up to the task of talking about her much. The boy would know far more about the girls' fate or what plight she may return to. And it hurt to not be able to fix the situation for the Luminary.

The question posed had him raise his lavender topped head and he considered. "I have not sought as of yet. Nor have I thought about which part to start at first."

A strategist he wasn't, that was Jasper's thing.

"However, I planned to start tomorrow and complete it within a few day's time. Is there a part in which you believe that I should start?"

It didn't hurt to ask.

A hunt begun without savvy of the lay of their land. Odds do not favour them, yet if ground must be covered, let them make attempt.

He hesitates, eyes faintly shuttered as if roads traversed and deeds done can align before him with military precision. A review, tidy.

Then, with a degree of finality. "I have covered the north." With grudging if middling efficiency. He lacks Wei Ying's charisma in outreach, but height and the dulled shine of his pale clothes draw the eye. He has traded enough of the portraits that word must have spread, like pox and plague, of the search of the strange man afflicted with a silent disposition.

"Take the south." Between them, the village covered. "What is your method?"

This surprised Hendrik as he heard the other had covered part of it already. "So you have been asking as well?" Somehow he told himself that he shouldn't accept the help, but when it came to the Luminary, he would humble himself and do what needed to be done for the boy's sake.

And that's when his head nodded. "I will start there." But as far as method went, that he had to shake his head. "I will simply ask if they've seen Lilly and describe her. Unless you have a better way to inquire about these sorts of things."

Hendrik was aware of himself enough that he could come off pretty gruff and threatening, even when he wasn't trying to. This came from the other members of the group back home having to point that out first however.

He... has been passing his papers, drooping his head, holding idle glances no longer than the span of heartbeats. Making do, where he should have surpassed expectations, met his own standards and not allowed his conviction to dissolve against the tired, threadbare bleating of crowds, haunting. Too much pain has blinded him, stumbled him. The distractions of ingrained poverty and unmet requirements has steered him towards thinning his efforts to locate one of their own.

His head hangs, lead-like and heavy, downturned. Around him, the world spins, nudging him in a gentle progression to nausea that thickens his voice, directs him.

"Your way will suit." Lan Wangi's own will develop, come hell or the high waters this village has depleted. "Let us speak, within days, of our findings."

Between two men, surely, they must see outcome done. The sharp edge of Lily's smile should cut him, if they do not.

The knight watched as his companion's head went down and he wondered at the reason for it. Could the man know something he didn't regarding the situation? Hendrik immediately dismissed that notion because there was no reason the other would agree to helping him otherwise. People didn't waste their time searching for people if they knew where they night have gone or when they may return.

Finally though the other spoke and the taller man nodded. "Then after we search we will meet at this place again. And hopefully by then one of us has some answers."

Even if they're not the happy kind. But Hendrik would do anything to see his charge smile, especially at this point.

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