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When Ben opened his eyes to the second day of his vacation, he was greeted by a small surprise. For once, Thera was awake before him, watching him from the side and looking bright as she held his arm.

“Look who’s finally up,” She laughed, getting a happy smile for her comment

“Good morning Thera, what has you up so early?”

“Ha, it’s later than I’m usually up and I’m excited. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a good show, the fact that Greed has people singing about you guys all over the world has to make me curious about how good the real performance is going to be.”

“Hopefully the fact that he lived through that with me eases up on the psychological damage,” Ben sighed, already imagining what he was going to have to go through watching the show in person. He could already tell it was going to be rough, but he was sure that Thera would get a kick out of it and his last meeting with Greed had made it plan that the crab wanted Ben to see the show. How could he deny the friend he’d gone through hell with?

“Just try to keep any pain from your face,” She teased. “Don’t want to break his heart.”

“I’m a master of restraint, he’ll never know my suffering. But before that, breakfast? Or I guess brunch.”

“Sounds great, let’s go.”

They left Allfaith after getting up, off to the city that would be hosting Greed’s performance and found a place to enjoy a meal before wandering the area with the time they had till the show, the only thing stopping them being the sound of a distant call.

“Apostle!”

Thera tried to stop to look but Ben had her hand and kept walking.

“That’s not for me.”

“What makes you so sure?”

“The fact that I don’t want it to be. Now come on in case I’m wrong.”

“Myriad’s apostle!” The voice again called out, this time leaving no room for denial as the city’s people turned to look, trying to find the apostle in their midst as Ben heaved a sigh and stopped, accepting that whatever was about to happen was going to somehow be his problem.

“Whatever this is, I’m turning him down,” He muttered to himself. “I’m on vacation, that means no apostle business.”

“Ha, you never do any apostle business.”

“I kind of do sometimes. I got Myriad an oracle and high priestess and helped both awaken different skills. Heck, Myriad has like, a few hundred believers now and most of them are thanks to me. If you look at my numbers, I’m an objectively great apostle, maybe even one of the best.”

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None of that explained why he would be randomly called out on the street though, nor how he was recognized from afar. He didn’t exactly advertise himself as a member of any faith, the ones who knew the role he had were largely the other believers along with his friends and acquaintances.

Well, Sachel also outed me to all of Stonewall but I’m pretty sure it’s not anyone from there. Who is this guy?