In between bites, she listened carefully.   It was certainly a different story than most told when they came back boasting about slain monsters and not paying the people who'd helped them.  "Not running from anyone, no.  Just trying to get by here.  No point in going anywhere else," she says.<br/><br/>Now a bit less hungry, she looked at the sword, wishing she could will the handle to an angle that was a bit harder for him to grab, although he didn't seem as threatening now.  "Why change professions because of that one time?  Do you think all the monsters are really just men who were cursed?"