🐍 // LUCY ( @clavesstella ) continued from here
of all the members of the magic council (take… whatever version they were on this time, maybe three since she had first joined fairy tail?), lucy had to say he felt most comfortable around jura. perhaps it was just the way he seemed to exude a calming influence, a skill he had possessed even back when they had first met back when they were hunting the oración seis. and so, when the chance to go speak to him for a story came up, she had jumped at it.
“a journalist, mainly, if you don’t mind?” her notepad and recorder was in her bag, ready to be pulled out when necessary. “although the story i’m looking into here does interest me as a mage as well? i’ve heard rumor that it could be easier soon to find work as an independent mage, outside of the guild system?”
something that she just knew that the readers of sorcerer’s weekly would like to know. there had to be other mages out there that didn’t want to be forced into a guild just to make a solid living. sure, lucy had loved her time in fairy tail, but the disbandment had hit her hard and she didn’t want others to have to go through the same thing.
but that was work, and jura had been a good ally, so the blonde was perfectly happy to let business wait. “but first, how have you been? asking as a former ally, not as a reporter.” a smile was given, hands resting gently in her lap. “it must be crazy here, with all the drama from other guilds. or is it calmer without natsu and fairy tail making a mess all the time?”
if there was one thing jura had underestimated before he had come to era, it had been how fast news travelled. when he had lived in zinnia, information had been contained easily --- his guild had never been one known to cooperate with the press; too many serpents were working on sensitive projects, on new trademark spells they guarded carefully. in era, things were different. multiple newspapers had reporters stationed permanently near the council buildings, waiting for the first hints of new developments so they could run the story before anyone else could.
it was so unfamiliar, sometimes. it was also nothing that made it easy for him to form the kind of bonds he had had back in zinnia where he had trusted the people around him; in this town, information meant power and he could not hand it out lightly in good conscience. especially when he was working tirelessly on a reform that did not have only supporters.
“ i have no reason to complain. i hope you have been well, too? ” he responded calmly as he dismissed his assistant with a wave. “ and things have been ... tumultuos, lately, though i fear if you are after a story about ... drama, you should have gone to zinnia. ”
while jura had known for years that he would never be guild master, having never wanted this position, the same could not be said for all of his fellow serpents. many of them had expected him to lead them after ooba-sama retired and to them, it had come as a shock and this had not happened. while things had been smoothed over now, lamia had been in a state of chaos for a week or so after the announcement had been first made, though ultimately, it had been obvious that the protest would be short-lived; it was not their way to question choices made by the leader without good cause. and there had been no good cause.
“ off the record ... since i do trust you not to run the story before anything is set in stone ... yes, i do plan to improve the situation for mages without guilds. there should be more freedom in choice --- currently, the options are mostly guild or council. ”
