*hugs*  No one ever invited me to join.  :P<br/><br/>Sorry, I'm just trying to feel my way in.  I'm a bit off kilter this week so I'm sure I'm being overly worried about being accepted.<br/><br/>I didn't know when I pitched my character on the first page that we were going to start out already knowing each other.  When that entered into the discussion no one mentioned me.  Made me nervous that I was intruding.<br/><br/>I currently have Mandy nineteen.  If I don't change that she'd only have been on her own for a year or so.  Maybe just a few months.<br/><br/>I guess I didn't make it clear that I was giving Hairy--and the group--a chance to tell me that I was too broadly powerful being both a healer and a pyromancer, or that it Mandy was more interesting if she didn't have the gift of healing at all but longed for it.<br/><br/>Mandy would have different motivations for traveling and different places to be going depending on what the answer was to that question.<br/><br/>I suppose either way she might be inclined to start following Leonidas--either because he's needed int he same places she is or because he can do what she can't.