"Right, well," the elf calls out from a shadowed corner of the room, "He does love to talk, eh? Always a charmer, don't let yourself be fooled, he talks to all the women like that." Alizome steps out, adding, "Also, you and the lizardwoman were quite loud. Do try to remember next time we're in an enemy camp still? I'm Alizome, thief and courtesan. Good to be able to save someone who came before, it'll help us clear the rest of them out for long enough to get what we all came for. Especially if we can argue that since we returned parts of two parties, we get more than a single reward payment." gesturing at the other, "Come on, let's get the other one out. Either of you two find anything out about where the artifact is before things went wrong?" Pausing, and realizing that that might sound insensitive, she adds- "Don't feel bad, I was halfway down a sea monster's throat already once this trip. Sometimes you're the eater, sometimes you have to carve your way out of the eater's chest with a knife, I always say." She'd been behind Xarces all along, pacing him and waiting for a threat to try to jump him that she could ambush in turn- but with new people to meet, stealth no longer seemed as useful.