Bidzil had a wide grin across his face, he knew he shouldn't press anymore for information, and he wouldn't mind throwing down a bunch of drinks, but he did have to be somewhere later and in condition to fight as well. He laughed heartily alongside the old man before he gave a response, "Well, I'd love to see how many drinks we could go through, but me and the miss here are having a little night on the town. We are both retired, met in service years back. Thought we would get out and see the world without lookin' through war goggles for once, ya know? I don't want to get too carried away and not be able to remember tonight," he finished as he put his arm around Annika. "Tell ya what though, before we go, you and me, strongest drink they got, I'll buy." he said with a grin, "how bout it?"

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The old colonel seemed to change his expression, from a cheerful to more somber. The look in his eyes suggested a kind of defeat, yet there was no major battle anywhere in the last several years. Still, his expression changed back as to respond,

"Retired huh? You two look awfully young to be retiring but... I guess that's smart. Lifelong service ain't what it used to be", he sighed.

"Alright. Keep! Strongest thing you got", after a moment, the girl tending the counter pulled something out from a cabinet in the back. Out came a rather curious bottle, with a dragon-like design, glass wings wreathed around the body, and a dragon neck and head to serve for the neck of the bottle, with a cork at the very top.

"Not our oldest of these bottles, but this is the Dragon's Breath. The brew predates Raelin establishment, a unique kind of wine that used fireberries, which are ordinarily consumed for resistance to flame. The way it's brewed reverses that. I hear alchemists love to cite this wine as a great example of reverse engineering chemicals", she explains. Placing it on the table she filled two shot glasses of it and slid it over to the two.

"In case you start burning we have a bunch of herbs tucked away for first aid, or in case. They don't call it Dragon's Breath for nothing", she smiled. It was clear she was looking forward to what would happen.

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Having already given up on drinking together with Garsin and the old colonel, Annika simply stood there, quietly listening to both of them talking and trying to extract any useful information. She was a bit concerned about the amount of alcohol Garsin was drinking, but since he hopefully was doing that in order to be able to get some information out of that old colonel, Annika choose to trust him. Unfortunately, that conversation wasn't going anywhere useful, at least until now. The colonel wasn't as easy to extract information as they might have previously thought.

Garsin then put his arms around her, as he told the colonel a made up story regarding their motives for being there and portraying them as a couple, which not only made Annika really uncomfortable with that much physical contact, but made her somewhat irritated by being referred by Garsin as 'miss'. As far as she was concerned, she wasn't a woman, she was a soldier. Genders didn't matter on her profession. Even though they had worked together for a good amount of time, she still was a very reserved woman and had a things that she didn't like to talk about nor show even to Garsin. In another moment, that commentary would make Annika to take his arms away from her and gaze at him with a cold and piercing stare, but now, since they were talking with that old colonel, she would have to act according to Garsin's story unless she wanted to make the colonel suspicious of them.

Unlike his words though, he once again asked the old colonel to drink with him. This time, the strongest drink they had. That fact made Annika a bit worried, since he had already drank quite a bit and it would be incredibly troublesome to have to take care of a drunk Garsin and try to somehow hunt for clues regarding their contract.

The moment the waitress brought their strongest drink, called the 'Dragon's Breath' Annika's accusatory stare was clear to Garsin, if he ended up getting too drunk and forgetting their mission, she wouldn't carry him to an inn or take care of him..