<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/VjAyLp4.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Rei (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=333483.msg15890913#msg15890913)<br/><strong>Race and Occupation:</strong>Plucky Human Ninja<br/><strong>Location &amp; Time:</strong>Generic Cave Dungeon One | Afternoon, W1D2<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Lucien<br/><hr/><hr/><br/>Defense was never a play in Rei's book, but she felt obligated to ensure that her fellow party member was going to be conscious for whatever it was that was beyond these two dummies. That, and he was holding onto the bounty and presumable knew who to talk to so if she wanted to get some coin out of this, it was in her best interest to keep him upright. Or those are the things that she would tell Lucien if he ever asked. She was a little worried that she wasn't ever going to come down from his little potion that he had given her and while putting her in this predicament, he may be the only one who can get her out of it, too.<br/><br/>Lucien's thanks, on any other day, would have been met with a knowing nod and a charge at the threat as if it was no big deal. Now, the light touch was electric, and the small squeeze of her shoulder sent a pulse right down between her legs. She squirmed a little beneath his innocent gesture and was thankful that the alchemist didn't linger on it by instead freezing one of those able wooden dummies in its tracks.<em>Cool.</em><br/><br/>There was little time to watch Lucien's work as another dummy could be heard further in the cave coming toward them. The creaking was slower, which made her think that it was gearing up to hurl another weight at one of them. She ran toward it, in part because Lucien encouraged her to be rid of it, though the biggest motivator was perhaps to get this over and done with so she can get back to her pile of hay behind the tavern and find some relief. A kunai was launched at the rickety wood, which acted as something of a tracer given the<em>thunk</em>she heard when it made contact. Her hands became free at just the right time as her sword was tossed just in front of her. Rei lunged for it, then used her momentum to run through the wooden dummy. Only when she stopped on the other side of it did the whole being split away from itself in two. It was something out of a story book.<br/><br/>Finding herself slightly ahead in the cave than her partner once again, Rei took the time to catch her breath and take stock. They were doing good work and clearly had some chemistry between them. That's good. She's dicing these things up in single strokes, usually, so maybe the potion really is doing as advertised. They're also wood, though, and she's done more of the same when training. So maybe when it came to bolstering her strength, the jury was still out on that one. So was her desperately wanting to rip off her clothes to spare herself from feeling her chest ache against them and the growing dampness between her legs a side effect of the potion or really all it was good for? Too early to tell, and still not worth letting Lucien know out of sheer embarrassment.<br/><br/>The ninja bent down to pick up the kunai that was lodged in the dummy by her feet. Her thighs grazed against each other, making her let out a soft moan as they did. Even her knee touching the rocky ground gave her pause. She was slow to get up and even slower to put the small knife back into its home on her thigh so not to excite herself any further.<br/><br/>"Hey, Lucien." Rei said rather sharply when he undoubtedly closed in on her, if only to get her point across faster. "You doing okay? That thing got you pretty good from what I saw. Let me see!" She gestured for him to get down to her level so she could check on his head. "Still remember what you were talking about before or is it gone along with some of your blood?"<br/>