<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=240516.msg11895981#msg11895981">Quote from: Winter King on 13-12-2015, 17:34:34</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Brishah looked at the Delzhan, her lips pursed as she spoke in a slightly unsteady voice. "I take it that your widely travelled ways have inured you to the idea of a woman who is a warrior, then?" Abruptly, she burst out in uproarious laughter, tossing her head back in amusement. After several moments, it died down and she looked again to Krum, apparently trying hard to repress a smile.<br/><br/>There was still a hint of a chuckle in her voice when she finally spoke in answer to his question. "Karam is not my student," she said, her breathing still slightly labored from laughter, "but he's just over there." She pointed at a barechested man with the darkly tanned skin of the Far South, who wore his hair in a short-cropped cut. At the moment, he was sitting outside the ring, just watching the engagement with a bland, enigmatic smile.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Thufir Hawat</div><div class="spoiler_body">Krum recognizes one of the two current competitors as a practitioner of the style that strongly resembles the movements of a tiger - most probably Tiger Style. The other style triggers something in his memory, but he cannot quite put a name to it - the poor stylist looks like he is in dire straits, though Krum suspects there may be more to him than meets the eye.</div></div></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>"This is not Chiaroscuro. Different places have different rules for women and warriors", Krum shrugged. "I've known that for a long time, given that Chiaroscuro is a port city... The ships have guards, and those aren't all men. I wouldn't expect, not ask, that the rules here change to mirror the rules in Chiaroscuro in honour of my arrival. In fact, trying to ask for that would be presumptupous and rude beyond imagining. I hope you wouldn't accuse me of that?"<br/>He looks at Karam and shrugs.<br/>"Your man looks bored. I understand him - the Tiger stylist over there seems to have an advantage, indeed, and Tigers are generally boring when winning. They just keep attacking...what is Karam's style?"