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[color=CB3011]“How much was that?”[/color]

J’torha barely glanced at the merchant woman as she patiently repeated the price, so transfixed was he on the little pouch of pure excitement he was tossing up and down in his palm. [color=CB3011]“And you have a variety of colours?”[/color]

[color=F7E0E7]“Yes sir, seven colours.”[/color]

[color=CB3011]“Sounds good to me,”[/color] J’torha replied cheerfully, rummaging in his coinpurse for the appropriate amount of gil. He smiled broadly as he received his purchase, seven such sacks that could all fit rather nicely into the remaining portion of the rucksack he carried.

[color=F7E0E7]“Thank you sir,”[/color] the merchant replied, taking the money and looking a little concerned as J’torha untied the cinch of one of the bags to peek inside. [color=F7E0E7]“Oh, and do be careful not to expose them to—”[/color]

[i]FWOOM[/i]

There were a few cries from startled passerby as a cloud of green sparks loudly burst to life in J’torha’s face; possibly including his own. But when the crackling died down and he looked back to the merchant, he wore as big a smile as ever.

[color=CB3011]“Thank you again! I’ll be back!”[/color][/hider]
[color=CB3011]“Oh now that’s no fair, Momodi took my legs out from under me the last time [i]I[/i] tried to jump up on the bar.”[/color]

J’torha’s little complaint may have gone largely unappreciated among the other patrons sitting nearby, but he chuckled all the same at the memory. A grave overreaction, he still insisted. She didn’t even know what he’d been doing! Surely she would have been impressed enough to let him stay that night if she’d waited to see him walk across the bar on his hands. Even now she was stealing venomous looks at him just for having his feet up on the table. To his consolation, though, Momodi didn’t look at all pleased with this Lyveva girl either. 

Her recruitment speech was… well, rousing wasn’t the right word, but apparently a dark-haired Seeker bloke and a Lalafell with Lominsan accents seemed to think it worthy of a cheer. The girl herself was only a mite more interesting; J’torha preferred his women a little older and a little taller, truth be told. He wasn’t sure if her description of the free company was worth permanently joining over, but she did seem desperate, and, well… he never could say no to a lady in need. 

Questions were asked and answered, and while J’torha had to raise an eyebrow at the Northern-sounding Midlander talking like a hero from a bedtime story, the child with the queer horns definitely caught his attention. He couldn’t be an Au Ra, his horns looked too different and there wasn’t another scale to be found on the boy. The only other thing he could think of as a possibility was a beast tribe, but J’torha didn’t know any that looked like him, either.

But there wasn’t much time to puzzle about it before another Miqo’te came thundering into the Quicksand, arms heavy with [i]books[/i] of all things and hollering about wanting to join. Before J’torha even had the chance to wonder if she was an envoy from the Arcanist’s Guild or something, she stepped on a discarded flagon and went dramatically tits-up in a shower of books, much to the amusement of a few nearby patrons, and the concern of a few others.

J’torha fell squarely into the former category, not even bothering to hide his chuckle at the display. She was all scratched up and tattered too, for some reason, which only added to the hilarity. 

[color=CB3011]“Rough day, darlin’?”[/color] he asked the woman nonchalantly, chuckling some more as he stooped in his seat to pick up one of the books she’d dropped. He squinted at the cover for a moment, but couldn’t make much sense of the title and handed it back with a shrug. 

A highlander asked about healers, and J’torha found his memory jogged. [color=CB3011]“Right, how big of a company are we talking, anyway?”[/color] he piped up, though he didn’t rise from his seat. [color=CB3011]“It’s not [i]just[/i] you and this Suki, is it?”[/color]
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