Elenor turned round, eyes sharp as she read the other dragon's face. His expression was too conflicted for her to judge the reasoning behind his question.

"What did the dragon from before tell you?" she asked, avoiding his direct question again. She wouldn't put Lazi at risk, that was for sure. At least that idea kept her focused and on track within a conversation.

"I don't know the timescales are but I do know that this tunnel," She pointed to the closest one, "Is far enough out that we shouldn't pass many guards at all. The citizens, if found outside the festival, will most likely be forced to attend meaning we can't be seen. Once in the tunnel I can lead you all to the stronghold."

(Going to reveal my second character soon~)

(It'll be good to get some new characters going around the place ^.^)

Kai'hel followed Cesura's talon across the map before he hesitated. "They force you to attend if you don't want to? I've always hidden at this time of year... we'll have to be careful that we don't cause a ruckus by heading in the opposite direction to the festival. All I can say is we'll have the best chances of succeeding the sooner we move out. Or..."

He stopped in his tracks again. "Well, I do have a certain set of equipment that gives us more options."

Slinging a large duffel bag from his back, he undoes the clasp keeping it closed and reveals its contents. A set of high standard Empire armour, something you would see on the front lines or on semi-retired veterans who rarely show up in the streets of Khurazir. "I got a hold of these a while back," he explains, shrugging. "Wasn't easy, I can tell you."

It hadn't been. He'd had to earn that suit of armour that fitted only him. He'd happened to forget to hand it back in to be melted down, figuring he could use it again. He unconciously made sure his tail hid his Empire brand, looking at the bag.

Melidoas peeks to see that everyone is distracted and takes his chance to escape from this situation with one quick leap and a flap of his wings he is flying away but just as he thinks hes free he bumps into a one of the dragons he turns to see he bumped into a black dragon

Cesura saw the armor, she had an idea of where this was going. Maybe she could get Kai'hel to explain it, "Well this does give us options! What are you planning to do with that?" She looked away from the bag and up at him, her expression sincere yet questioning.

"Watch it," Vernik growled turning to the dragon who had bumped into him, baring his fangs and showing his sharp talons to the dragon, puffing himself up so he looked bigger and more threatening, hoping the dragon would leave.

Lazi watched silently, noting how the dragon seemed to be hiding something, something important. She looked the dragon up and down, noticing the dragon seemed to be hiding something with his tail, darting forward she moved till she was next to him, batting the tail away with a talon, hoping her suspicion was correct.
(Hopefully I'm not being to overpowered :P)

He shrug. " Nothing interesting on what was happening unfortunately, i just know how to read the obvious signs around the city and theorise on what could be happening." He came back in the city not too long ago but he wasnt blind or obvious to the silent anger in the eyes of it's habitants.

Meliodias notices the other dragon is trying to appear bigger but he doesn't want to start a fight so he says "sorry" he notices that no one recognizes him from his past so he decides he could make a few acquittances incase there is danger near "hey you would a drink be enough to show my apologies?"

"A drink," He asked, tilting his head, looking confused, he had just had a drink at the river, was that what they where talking about. It would be best just to ask, "Yes," He said gruffly, letting himself return to his normal self, still intimidating of course, "What drink are we talking about? Water?"

(Ehh... I was hoping to reveal it later, but it's no issue. He's a big dragon and his movements don't go unnoticed, so I can hardly stop a sharp-eyed dragon catching him out)

"I supposed that I could stick the armour on and make out as if I'm escorting the rest of you somewhere. Should we run into guards who ask too many questions, of course. But most of the time, if a low ranking Empire soldier sees a superior they keep their mouth shut." He realised he was stepping a bit close to the point where he revealed that his knowledge of how the Empire worked was a bit better than the usual dragon off the street. Focusing his stare on his bag, he had no idea if the other two had picked up on that. He shifted uneasily...

...and then Lazi leapt forward, whacking his tail out of the way so she could clearly see the Empire brand that plagued his flank.

He half hissed, half yelped as he jumped back, knocking into Cesura's shelves. A couple of jars fell onto the pea plant vines that thankfully broke their fall.

Looking at his talons, shame filled his features. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean... look, I can explain. I'm not one of them anymore! Please believe me." He found himself jabbering and shut up, waiting for a response.