"Just give us the mission already."
Shade sighed, his arms crossed, his eyes rolling dramatically. "I don't want to listen to your banter."
Mr. Blade stared, his mouth falling open. He pointed a trembling finger at Shade. "You… you should stop absorbing everything your mentor taught you. You're turning into her—" Smack! Scarlett Jenkins's hand collided with the back of Mr. Blade's head, cutting him off mid-sentence.
Queen Regina, clearly at her limit, rubbed her temples again. With a weary sigh, she permitted the mission, despite its unreasonable and cruel nature. It was settled: Eirin and Shade were to be forced into cooperation.
"All you have to do is bring me a weeping bindweed from the Slumbering Slopes. It's a rare flower which only blooms on the 14th to 16th of August, once every hundred years."
Eirin bit her lower lip as they stepped out of the Director's office. All the mission details still being written up on paper, set to be sent to them later that day.
