<div class="floatleft">(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs11/i/2006/223/f/6/Redhead_by_Chibiche.png)</div><br/>She was going to, but she stopped. Ci'ona knew her heart, and perhaps she knew Little Bear's. Without pretense she looked at the hand pushing her, and at the woman raising it against her, and that was all.<br/><br/>"Sit, eat, that's merely existing. Better to go hungry into danger, to keep your body tuned and sharply focused, not sluggish digesting... what is that? Goat's cheese?" Missy waved away the carriers of food and drink. She did not, in fact, have any money at all to pay for amenities such as ale, or stew, or a room for the night. She turned a seat sideways to accommodate the poof of her tails, and joined Ci'ona, and Bell, and Justine there at the table, though her neck craned to see how her rallying cry had met the other adventure-types in the tavern. That dragonborn looked down for a quick quest... but no, she stayed where she was, for now.<br/><br/>She smiled as big as the new world night sky. "Here's an adventure for you. Do you know what I brought with me?" She opened her bag and unpacked to find what she hoped to surprise them with. It wasn't the bedroll, which she lay beside her seat in a bundle. It wasn' the several discrete decks of cards or the sealed bottle of ordinary wine from across the sea she fully expected to appreciate in value. It was a little cloth bundle with a string tie, smaller than her clenched fist. "These."<br/><br/>Unfurled with the care of an engagement ring, she revealed a smattering of weird seeds the size of a fingernail, purple-green with curlique tips, a blush of pink where the quiescent life within lay cocooned and mysterious. "These, fairy seeds." Her sharp wink could start a fire in a place so soaked with booze. "Fairy seeds grow fairy flowers which by moonlight glow. The glow of a fairy flower on a full moon, far from civilization, is a sure way to attract magical creatures. Who knows what we'll discover by moonlight in the deep of the woods? A grelith, or morgrethell, or weeper-in-willows, or... something nobody's ever heard of before."