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[celestialdragon]

"He was," she said, helping her fix her hair.

 

[bindingeagle]

The slums were just as squalid as they imagined it would be. Shady characters were everywhere.

 

[celestialdragon]

She held her hand on her sword, glad she had shoved her coin purse down her shirt.

 

[bindingeagle]

"That tavern over there is usually pretty bad," Geoff said, "We should look in on it."

 

[celestialdragon]

"It does like it can use some cleaning up," she agreed.

 

[bindingeagle]

Geoff got them a table in the corner and got them some ale. 'See anything unusual?" he asked, gulping it down. Sex was thirsty work.

 

[celestialdragon]

She shook her head, sipping on her ale. "Though that could change," she said softly.

 

[bindingeagle]

Whispers began circulating through the tavern. "I think someone important is coming," he said.

 

[celestialdragon]

"Great, who could that be?" she asked.

 

[bindingeagle]

"No idea," he said, keeping up his cover. "I've head rumors about a bard-thief in the area though."

 

[celestialdragon]

"A bard thief? That's a new one. We don't get much of those in our neck of the woods," she said.

 

[bindingeagle]

"Uses his magic to convince people to steal for him," he said. "Very hard to prove."

 

[celestialdragon]

"Clerical magic can usually rule that out, though, can't it?" she asked, feigning ignorance at the way magic works.

 

[bindingeagle]

"Sometimes, but it's difficult to find one around here. This is more of a fighting town," he said as the performer in question got up on stage.

 

[celestialdragon]

She nodded, eyeing the performer warily.

 

[bindingeagle]

The performance seemed to go normally. At the end of the performance, he went to get a drink, and a young, rich looking woman began talking to him. They looked like they were hitting it off.

 

[celestialdragon]

"Now, what is a rather rich young noblewoman doing in a dive like this?" Al'ika murmured.

 

[bindingeagle]

"Who knows, some come down here for drugs, others so they can rebel and have some adventure," he said, leaning in to look closer at the meeting.

 

[celestialdragon]

"Lovely," she groaned softly.

 

[bindingeagle]

The woman and the bard parted amicably. Geoff leaned back, still not sure if anything had happened.

 

[celestialdragon]

Al'ika finished her drink and relaxed, placing her boots up on the table. "Nothing to clear out here," she commented.

 

[bindingeagle]

"I still think he did something," Geoff said quietly. "Too bad we don't have any mages around."

 

[celestialdragon]

"When was the last time there was a clerical mage to clear the riffraff?" she asked curiously.

 

[bindingeagle]

"Only once, a while ago," he said dismissively. "I was nice. We had all the lies out in plain view."

 

[celestialdragon]

She nodded thoughtfully. "I see."