<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=82056.msg4941685#msg4941685">Quote from: Thufir Hawat on 18-07-2011, 01:41:56</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">He nods.<br/>"Sure", is the curt answer as he goes towards the door. He's definitely moving in a way that's not expected of someone with so many obvious muscles... and his voice was too cultured and polite.<br/>Most people wouldn't notice that, though, Aathea knows. Even she might have missed it.<br/><br/>Once outside, the man is taciturn, and leads her fast towards the centre of the city. He stops in a small street, not different from the ones nearby. Across the street, there is a home with a big open garden. There, under the shadow of some tree, a group of youths is drinking and laughing around a table, while some musician is performing a soft melody you don't recognize.<br/>The guys look like rich (to a different degree, of course), well-dressed, in expensive clothes with golden thread.<br/>"The blond guy in blue", is all her guide says. "He's the target you were paid for. Ask him to fight the Zandir with the sleight sword in red, the one that just pinched the serving wench's butt. They're now playing this game of theirs", he spits.<br/>It seems like a war game, and unworthy of the hate in his tone, but the hate is there.<br/>Except these two, there are three other guys. A Cymrillian, another Zandu, and a Trall are discussing something, and - amazingly - laughing at what the Trall seems to be telling them. Since he haven't stopped talking, it looks like a story, but a Trall telling funny stories?<br/>Incredible in itself.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong>-Arathea-</strong><br/>She looked at the men.<strong> "Should I ask why your master wants them in trouble ?"</strong>she looked at her comppanion. But without waitting for an answer, she started to walk toward the group of men, looking for an place to sit near the musicians. She made sure, her dress was appropriately revealing, yet leaving enought to be descired.