<div class="floatleft">(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb266/Mel_Reyna/92de87e8-ae78-4a46-b0a2-d2ca2413108a_zpsabd5663c.jpg)</div><br/><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Xifeng (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173601.msg8215263#msg8215263)<br/><strong>Nationality:</strong>Khitani<br/><strong>Class/Skill Set:</strong>Martial Artist<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Inside the Leaky Wench<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Lukas, Cormac<br/><br/><hr/><br/><br/>Knowing Lukas to be one of the more restrained company members, if not<em>the</em>most restrained, Xi hadn't been expecting him to take much more than a small taste of the wine at first, which would have given his tongue a good kick, but nothing too extreme. Imagine her surprise when she saw him drink so greedily! Her eyes went wide, and she had half a mind to warn him, but the demon on her shoulder eventually won out and she decided to keep silent, not that it would have made much of a difference by that point anyways.<br/><br/>The Kithani trickster managed to restrain her outburst of laughter up to the point when Lukas complimented the wine and tried to play it off like it was nothing when she could clearly see the alarm in his eyes and his face taking on a bright shade of red. Xi's laughter was high and sharp, a cute, girlish chirp that you wouldn't normally associate with a sellsword, but that was the only one that she'd been born with, as unintimidating as it sounded.<br/><br/>Other than being amused, Xifeng had to admit that Lukas had also impressed her quite a bit with his tolerance, especially since she was reasonably confident that extreme spices were not something that he had much experience with, if any at all. She'd seen men twice Lucas' size drink half as much firewine as he had in one go end up rolling on the ground in hysteria. And most of all, of course, she appreciated how gracefully he could take a joke even when it was at his own expense (and that of his poor tongue!). She wouldn't have felt safe attempting to play such a prank on somebody like Elokhat, for instance. That one would probably have flayed her alive and poured vinegar on her in retaliation. Or at least that was the impression that Xi got, she didn't really know the Stygian personally.<br/><br/>"Wicked?" she repeated after Lukas in mock confusion. "Trick!?" She raised a hand up to her chest just below her throat and put on the least convincing attempt at seeming insulted ever while struggling not to giggle. "Is that the thanks I get for sharing my wine with you, paid for with my hard earned coin? It's not my fault that you decided to drink like a camel! Shame on you, sir," Xi teased. She snatched the wineskin back from Lukas and took just a single small gulp from it while her foot lightly brushed against the side of his thigh, which may or may not have been intentional.<br/><br/>"But no matter. Xifeng, in her infinite charity, will pay for your next drink as a sign of good faith even though you vex her deeply." Xi energetically motioned for the nearest serving wench to come over and take her companion's order. "So, why do I always catch you sitting all alone? Surely you could bed a different girl every night with that silver tongue of yours. And you wouldn't even have to pay for them like Cormac does!" Xi exclaimed loudly enough for the barbarian to overhear from the nearby table where he was seated. It was said completely in jest, of course. Xi had nothing against the man, and in fact was quite fond of him as well.<br/><br/>Interestingly, Lukas and Cormac were practically the antithesis of one another, but she appreciated them both all the same. "Won't you come drink with us now that you've scared Goose away?"