[center][h1]~ Khandri ~[/h1][/center]

[color=fff79a][i]What a nag is this ? Don't tell me you've spent your coins on [b]that[/b]![/i][/color]
[color=00a99d][i]It's a horse that can take my size and carry my weight. Sorry if the result of me having to make a choice under these constraints doesn't suit your need for comfort. Doesn't my brain cushion all that movement quite well ?[/i][/color] Andri didn't speak as he had found out that Khan was able to understand his thoughts. And his thoughts were filled with sarcasm.
[color=fff79a][i]What the hell are you thinking ? I don't need shock absorption! When I will have got you to the point I want you to be and you want to be there as well once you've experienced it, your body will rock like an earthquake! Up and down and in and out! Fast! Ya know ?[/i][/color]
The assassin grunted. That worm... [color=00a99d][i]YES GODDAMNIT! I KNOW! Stop puking your thoughts into my head! I want to sleep![/i][/color]
[color=fff79a][i]I could poof you there... Hell I could poof you to every place you can describe in detail. Sell this struggling beast and invest the refund into something more pleasureable. Is there a house of pleasure in that shabby village ?[/i][/color]
[color=00a99d][i]No![/i][/color]
[color=fff79a][i]But you have a lake, a blacksmith and TWO taverns ? You pathetic hunters pay for the wrong things...[/i][/color] Andri was really trying to keep his annoyance at a level that wouldn't cause even more attention to be focused on him. The assassin tried to be well ahead of the other hunters - or what remained of the group that came here. Sometimes his eyes darted behind him to see what they did, especially Fenros. [color=fff79a][i]Don't worry about him. Save it for the moment that beautiful huntress returns. The one you grabbed at her boob so absolutely not gentlemanly.[/i][/color]

There was a low demonic laughter in Andri's head, but it was loud enough to piss him off even more. When he finally reached Seren's Folley, he was so aggressive that he almost kicked open the door to the tavern's main room. As he was the first to arrive, noone was here yet. The giant went straight for the bar, slammed a few low-value coins onto it in order to pay the absent barkeeper and reached for the next bottle of cheap booze himself. But his hand never got there...
[color=fff79a][i]No! You're fooling me! Down in the cathedral, when it was dire and desperate, you cried crocodile tears about all of your little money gone for that nasty animal! And now ? You suddenly have enough left to spend on alcohol ?![/i][/color]
[color=00a99d][i]Khan ? Khan you... ? You [b]did[/b] poof me out of that tavern ?[/i][/color]
[color=fff79a][i]Yes i did! That booze will make you lazy, fat, dumb and overall unattractive for a woman. I can't let that just happen. Hereby I demand you to cut your budget on beverages and save the savings for a decent whore now and then![/i][/color]
Andri hatched a plan. If he just pretended the right thing... [color=00a99d][i]Okay... I give up. For the sake of you letting me sleep then... May I at least collect the coins lying in there ?[/i][/color] [color=fff79a][i]Of course...[/i][/color] The assassin entered the tavern again, approached the bar, glanced first at the bottle, then at the coins and then grabbed both of them in such a close succession that Khan, instead of poofing Andri with only the coins, took the bottle with them as well. [color=00a99d][i]There you go![/i][/color]. He didn't wait for anything, he didn't care for him standing in the muddy street in front of the tavern again. He yanked the cork out of the bottle, took a huge breath and started gobbling the booze as if someone could take it away from him at any moment. [color=fff79a][i]That trick won't work twice you bastard![/i][/color]

Andri didn't feel good at all. That chug-a-lug felt like the last bit of punishment his body required to start failing. [color=fff79a][i]Hey host... I can't stabilize you... Get to your room, QUICK![/i][/color] Khan's repeated interjections degenerated into strange noises in Andri's perception. And for Khan, the stream of thoughts that once had been quite understandable had degenerated into unintelligible garbage. He dropped the bottle a few dozen steps away from the tavern and never managed to reach his own bed. Instead, the giant dropped next to a tree onto a settle, still covered in crusted blood from that undead beast he and Liz had encountered, mud from the coffin and spilled liquor.