"But this here is something that I have been building up fer years of experience! Just like battle makes a warrior's hide thick, so too does strong drinks toughen up his insides as well!"

There was an audible giggle at this, despite Fran and Rithrynn apparently being alone in this section of the cathedral. The noise made Fran flinch and quickly spin around, hurriedly concealing his flask inside his cloak again. “Er, hello! Someone there?”

…..

There was a guilty pause, before a form finally slunk around the edge of a column and became Bella, having been previously entirely concealed from the pair on the other side. The girl gave Rithrynn and Fran a perky smile, clasping her hands together in an ‘evesdropping? Who, me?’ sort of way. “Oh, hi! You guys are still here?!”

“….”

“…Ohh, don’t worry about [i]that[/i]. I won’t tell her” Bella said confidentially upon seeing Fran’s extremely discomfited expression. Leaning comfortably against the wall, the girl looked curiously at each in turn, and then at the very firmly shut door. “So how come you guys are left standing outside? I thought you were all meeting Priestess Thea?”