<div class="floatright">(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/744/21289895508_9dc4ffab99.jpg)</div>Quick to forgive despite their adversarial beginning, Hoshino took no offense at the suggestion she not have her hand on her hilt.  It was an understandable mistake, perhaps, to presume that it was a comfort or a nervous habit.  However, it was neither.<br/><br/>"Actually, it is the first step in preparing one of my Sword Skills," she replied calmly.  "All I need to do is tug the blade a little as my Pre-Motion, and it sets up Rapid Bite; if I pull it all the way and draw my hand back, it sets up Meteor Fall's Pre-Motion instead."  She glances at Deathshadow, as the younger girl relaxes into their new camaraderie.  "I'm a Martial Art Skill user, not a Sword Skill user, but there's a few combined techniques.  I still need to go on the quest to unlock the higher level skills, but we'll have to get to the seventh level to even start that."  She sighed softly.  Hoshino knew she was trapped on this path for now.  It would takes weeks before she could gain better skills.  A wakizashi counted as a dagger for most purposes.<br/><br/>Taking a quick look around she smiles suddenly.  "Artemis...there's an in around the next curve in the path.  We stayed there on our second trip in.  But we can help pay, Moonlight.  It wouldn't be fair to make you pay for all of us."  The only other concern she had was in how they would be roomed - there were rooms for one, two, or four people; hopefully there weren't too many other people in the place.  Another smile crosses her full lips.  Of course, if there happened to be a couple of two-bed rooms and not much else available...that could be interesting.<br/><br/>"With my luck, all they have left is a four-space room," she murmured to herself.<br/>