<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #008040"><div style="text-align: center;">Tessa</div></span></span></span><br/><br/>Tessa lets out a sigh of relief once Bahrook is gone. "This place is weird, and you need to work on your poker face." Tessa smiled slightly. "We should cross, quickly." She looked over her shoulder at the cottage and started across the bridge. "We don't know the rules of this world, but some basic things about magic are probably good for you to know. For example sympathetic magic, which is what I suspect that guy has access to, along with some other stuff. Sympathetic magic uses part of something to affect the whole thing. For example if he had our hair and lit it on fire we would burn too. It is possible he didn't plan on doing anything with it, but yeah not a good idea to give your hair or nails or blood to a creature with magic." Tessa paused, they were about half way across the bridge. "Also make sure you never give your full name. I'm lucky I don't have a true name, well if I do I don't know it." She gave a small shrug, but her voice hitched a little.<br/><br/>Finally the were across the bridge, and as their feet touched the other side the bridge melted back into the lava river. "Got water in that bag?" Tessa asked, looking at the dry rocky expanse of land in front of them separating them from the city in the distance. "I think the first thing we should do once we get into the town is find a market, hopefully an open air one we can blend into the crowd of. We should listen and watch. Get an idea of how best to fit in with the society. See if other people eat gold." She added smiling. "I suppose moving a lot and reading a ton of urban fantasy did me good."