New battle gear

Tess with her long fur coat began to walk through the building of the Council. It had been some time since she was here. Watching all of Fiore was a very hard job and she had been busy as of late. Now with a since of being somewhere she wanted to look up something. Wondering into the library Tess picked up a black book. It was a book on magical weapons she had a weapon she was working on.

Arthur was walking through the library with blurry eyes from his nap. He saw that the grounds crew had fixed it and put everything back. He saw Tess but didn't mentally register it until he was almost past her, then he spun on his heel. "Ah Tess! Just the woman I needed to see."

The voice for a moment didn't register in Tess head. For that in turn pissed Tess off just a little bit before turning. Just as she was getting ready to yell she saw it was Arthur. What did Arthur what with her? She thought. "What is it Arthur?"

"Have you heard about the Tournament Matthew is getting together? I was wondering what your level of interest in it was?" He said not sure if she wanted to participate or not, he certainly wasn't going to order anyone who didn't want to be in it to enter.

A tournament she thought? "I haven't heard about it Arthur. I been very busy as you know Arthur I protect a whole country." Tess said to him while she closed her book. Now knowing about the tournament she already knew what he was going to ask her. "You're asking me to join aren't you?"

"Well" He couldn't discern from her tone if she was interested or not "It's just that if there is going to be a girls day...we don't have many strong girls in the Knights...so...yeah." Arthur replied sheepily. "If you don't want to though I suppose we could always disguise Galahad as a girl...his hair is long enough."

"So I am going to be use just because I am a woman?" Tess asked as she raised an eyebrow. That is what it sounded like to her. She walk over to Arthur wondering if that is what he meant if so they we're going to have problems. Tess look at Arthur wondering what he was going to say now.

Grive walked behind Arthur hearing everything. "Are you disrespecting Lady Tess, Sir Arthur. I would pick my words carefully when entering the fifth division." Grive arms were folded, he looked sternly at Arthur waiting for him to answer Lady Tess. Grive came in to give the daily reports to Tess, but this was more important since another captain had came to talk about the tournament.

"Was that a veiled threat to a direct superior? If I were you I would pick my words more carefully when talking to me." Arthur said trying to be serious but he was more so just giving Grive a hard time. "And Tess." He said turning his attention to her as she stepped closer. "Put the sexism card back in the deck. You know and I know you are one of the strongest Knights we have, full stop. I would've asked you to participate female or not, its just more convenient that you are a woman since we need one for the tournament."

Tess put her hand on her chin and thought about it for a moment. "I'll join" Tess simply said that was pretty much all that needed to be said anyway.

"Excellent!" Arthur said giving Grive the book he had brought back to return and wanted Grive to take it to its proper place instead. "What are you reading?" He asked peering over her shoulder at the black book.

Holding her book Tess look at Arthur for a moment. "A book on weapons I'm forging new ones." She simply said and the black book she held out for him to see. Title God's Armory. From this book Tess was going to make a number of new weapons. Why it didn't matter

"Interesting, I didn't know there were any weapons left for you to master and/or create." He said hoping that giving her praise would lift her mood if he had dampened it with the tournament talk.

Grive took the book that Arthur gave him, he looked back at Arthur with a bored look. "Should Kamaris be doing this, he's yours subordinate after all.... Nevertheless I'll see to it." Grive turned his back preparing to leaving. "Lady Tess, the materials you requested are here." Grive left the two to finish their chat.

"Not master but make weapons for us. I have everything I need" Tess basically had nothing else to do. Well right now she had nothing else to do. She wanted to make weapons for her squad to pass the time and at the same time maybe the whole knights would need some kind of weapons. Pausing for a moment she thought what materials? Hoping that she just forgot she place an order somewhere.

"That's a good idea, especially considering the circumstances of this tournament. Could you make a special blade for Kamaris? We should get him a gift for joining the squads recently." He thought aloud since Grive reminded him by bringing up Kamaris. "Also not to make your job any harder but they are talking about increased security while the Tournament is happening, so any Garrison soldiers you can spare form other locations would be wise to bring here."

"I suppose its something I'll get on both of those things I mean" Tess would have a lot of work to do now but she should be able to at least get that much done in the amount of time that she had now all that was meant to be done was to create those weapons "When is this tournament? That we should be entering?"

"We are already entered. It's supposed to be in the coming weeks, things'll move quickly." He replied. "I would tell you to get prepared, but I feel like you are already prepared as any good Knight would be."

Tess liked the fact that he at least knew she was very well prepared. Smiling and nodding there wasn't much to say about that fact. Now all they had to do was wait and that she didn't mind to much.

"I am going to return to my office then. I'll have Kamaris come meet you when he gets back to claim his sword so he can get some swings in before the tournament." He said turning towards the door. "See ya" He gave a two finger salute.