<span style="font-style: italic">Damn</span>, I thought. Of course, I could present 'Annie Brightscale's' Seal of Trust... which would be utterly compromising to my present identity. Not that it was<span style="font-style: italic">exactly</span>a secret, but, still...<br/><br/>"Oh, I don't have one of those silly things," I simpered. "But you needn't worry," I continued, reaching out blindly - as blindly as someone with my senses ever would - to capture Xarces's wrist and pull him against me.<span style="font-style: italic">Play along</span>, I thought,<span style="font-style: italic">c'mon, just play along</span>. "I brought a<span style="font-style: italic">willing</span>snack with me, in case I get peckish after playing with one of Madame Widow's girls. Besides," I grinned, "I'm sure such strapping, well armed fellow such as you could slice 'n dice me in a trice, if I<span style="font-style: italic">were</span>foolish enough to devour someone I shouldn't." I paused. "Anyway, if you ask me to leave, I'll only want to hear it from the boss's lips, which is who I want to see anyway. Isn't it better for everyone if I wait comfortably in here," I motion my head towards the bar area, "where you fine fellows can keep an eye on me, and not suspiciously on your doorstep where I might attract undesirable attention - like the city watch?"<br/><br/>Roll was a four (m<a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/122586">http://orokos.com/roll/122586</a>m), which is modded to a three if the check is diplomacy.