I was surprised that the prince was talking to me.
Earlier I had been with Zoe and he had to talk me as an associate but now he was standing in front of me without any obligation.
"Hey". I replied.
"How was class?" He asked, pointing to the group of air mages.
"It was alright". I shrugged. "I didn't know you were a mage too".
Damon's eyes glinted as he dragged water from a small pouch tied to his waist.
The water floated in the air between his palm as he controlled it.
"You're water mage". I muttered in amazement. I'd only seen one other water mage and he was a higher level wave.
I always wanted to see how a low level mage would do it.
Now I knew they carried portable water around with them.
I wondered how feasible it was for battle though.
There's a limit to how much water you can carry around as a person. Especially if you're planning to run around and move mobilely on the battlefield.
Perhaps they could multiply the volume of water.
That would mean they could potentially do a lot of damage with an initially small amount of water.
I wanted to ask Damon how it worked when I remembered I was talking to the prince.
I already asked him a question, best not to annoy him so he could be on his way.
Damon smiled. "Level two. You?"
"Air mage… Level One". I replied.
He nodded. "Not bad. My brother is an air mage".
"And the emperor?" I found myself asking before I could control myself.
Damon looked startled for a moment then he smiled. "Fire. Why?"
"Nothing, just curious". I mumbled.
"Listen are you free to hang out this evening?" Damon asked suddenly.
I raised an eyebrow. "You want to hang out with me".
"Yeah". Damon repeated with a smile. "This evening. "You game?"
I shook my head. "I'd love to but I have to resume guard duty now".
I was lying, I wouldn't love to hang out with him. I didn't even know him and he was somehow interested in making friends with me after expressing interest in Zoe this morning.
It was very suspicious and I didn't want to be part of it even if he was genuine.
"Oh that". The prince said with a downcast look. "Where do you work?"
"I'm in the empress's guard". I replied cautiously.
His eyes brightened again. "Oh really?"
"Yeah". I nodded.
"That's no problem then". Damon said and pulled out a badge out of his pocket.
He handed it to me. "Give this to the chief guard and tell him I asked that you be excused".
I looked at the badge with a heavy heart. Now that my excuse was gone I had no choice but to hang out with him. Unless I wanted to be frank with him and reject him.
Damon noticed my reluctance and frowned. "You'll come right?"
I nodded slowly. "Yes".
He smiled then. "Okay then, meet me by the vegetables stalls at sunset".
I nodded and Damon walked off smiling