Its 6 am in the morning. The sun is slowly climbing up. The light slowly crawls and finds its path through the windows into the darkened rooms of the barracks called The Roaring Lion. Caphalor is still sleeping. It is quiet in the sleeping room. Their is only the noise of something snoring. Its Sinthoras. Besides that their is only silence. The silence will soon be broken by an out of tune trumpet that echo's through the hallways. Just like every morning the marines get up and dress themself while complaining about wanting to sleep longer. Caphalor takes his uniform of the bed post. He puts the shirt on adn aftert hat the jacket. After that he pulls his pants up and the socks on his feet. He then moves to the door where he places his shoes before going to bed last night. Sinthoras follows his example just like his other room mates. Caphalor opens the door and goes down the stairs to enter their living room. Their stomachs rumble as the move with the other marines on of their wing to the center of the building to get their breakfast.

After the recent events the loss of marines did a real number on most marines. They didn't need to fight for their food anymore. The usual fights in the morning for the best sandwiches now belong to the past. Caphalor, Sinthoras, Xin and Leona each grab their plate and sit down on a nearby table. Caphalor is unusually quiet this morning but everyone is still too tired to care. In his mind he thinks of the dream he had last night. In his dream he saw an unknown figure standing at a port that I do not know of. The figure moved a hand as sign to come closer. In the dream Caphalor walked forward but once he was their places are swapped. The person takes of her hoodie revealing Enoïla's face that is smiling. He wanted to go after her but his lags would not move. Enoïla disapears in the the sea. All I recognized was the heat and the sand hills of a dessert.

During Lunch he keeps thinking of it. After finishing his sandwich and strawberry tea Caphalor looks up from his plate. He turns to Xin. Xin? Do you know about any port city here in Alabasta? Xin looks back at Caphalor with a suprised expression because of the question. Yes I do. The city is called Nanohana. In fact it is the only port city in Alabasta. Why are you asking? Well, I had a dream last night. In the dream someone was signing at me to g there. I do not know why but I it was not a normal dream. All I knew was that I wanted to go there. Maybe the dream was some sort of sign. I see. Be careful Caphalor. Doing something just because you saw it in a dream does not mean it is safe. I understand what you are trying to say but still. If it is a qlue to get closer to my goal I can not ignore it.Can you guide me there or atleast show me on a map how I can get there? Sure no problem. I can not go with you as Roaringson had a special mission for me today but I will show you how to get there after the morning training. Okay, as you can not go with me, Sinthroas would you like to go? You know I will follow you anywhere you go. You are my brother in arms remmeber. Dont ask such stupid questions you know the answer to.

Then a marine would ring the bell. Its the signal that it is time to get on our feet and join the commanders outside for the morning training. The morning training goes just as usual with Sinthoras ending up kicking everyone's ass. Something that never gets old for him. After the morning training all marines take a shower. After that the day begins for every marine with each their own tasks and duties. As promised Xin is waiting for Caphalor and Sinthoras at the living room of their wing. We find him sitting on one of the tables with a couple of papers that look like maps. Hello Xin. I see you already gathered some maps for us. Thanks a lot for willing to help us. Hello to you two too. Its no big deal. We are friends afterall. Take a seat. Sinthoras and Caphalor both take a seat around the table. Xin then begins to explain as he grabs a map.

Okay so we are here. This is where we are stationed in The Roaring Lion Xin points at a dot at the map of Alabasta. Nanohana is over here. Xin's index finger slides across the map following the sea and stops at a much bigger dot. To reach Nanohana you will have to travel north. If you stay near the sea it should not be too difficult for any traveler. The journey on foot will take you atleast one week. So I suggest you get some camels or horses from the stables. If you do that it will only take you 3 days to reach Nanohana. Make sure you bring some resources with you like food and water. Also take stand storm goggles with you incase of a sandstorm. They are rare near the sea but better safe then sorry. Also take some filters incase you run out of water to filter the se water. You can not drink it as you already know. Nanohana does not have a lot of places where you can eat and i am not sure taake some money with you. I do not know how long you plan on staying. Also remmeber that its a port city. That means that you can run into smugglers, purse snatchers and all other kinds of underworld stuff. So be careful Thank you for the advice Xin If you can excuse me now. I need to go. I am already late. Take the maps with you if you want. With these words Xin gets up and leaves the 2 man alone. Caphalor rolls the maps and takes them with him upstairs. If you go pack our bags I will get roaringson's premission and get our camels ready. Its a dessert. Horses are faster under normal circumstances but camels aremore suited. Thanks Sin. See you in an hour at the front gate.

One hour later Caphalor arrives at the city gate. Sinthoras is already waiting for him with 3 camels. Sinthoras is already sitting on top of his own camel. Caphalor places the bags on one of them and pulls himself on the back of the 3rd. Then they give the camels the sign to start moving and so they leave their safe barracks behind.

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