<br/>"Oh Sethi, sometimes you have to give before you get " Chloe responded<br/><br/>"Besides, I said<em> Prove your worth and its yours</em>, not -hey have my crossbow. Proving it to me means saving your life or mine or both ! Worth it when things get out of hand right ? He gets it AND friends we get to live ! not mourn over lost friends"<br/><br/>Chloe sounded confident but perhaps Sethi was right, still desparate times call for desperate measures<br/><br/>"If we get the money from this that is promised, I can always have another made, but frankly its better in the hands of those that are focused on fighting not spell working, I can aim at surfaces, in the right hands it can be a lot better than what I can do with it. Fighters generally do. That on our side while I see to spells is better than me juggling one or the other"<br/><br/>The horses cleared a corner quickly, which made Chloe unsteady, luckily her horse was used to riders and the saddle certainly proved necessary when things got hairy. Good thing they had waited.<br/><br/>"Regardless Sethi, your more important alive to me than dead with a contraption in my hand. I want us rich remember ? Swaning it drinking wine in a palace courtyards, not bristling with weapons. The dream Sethi remember ? Such things like this are first step. So many others are more desperate than you know, take that desperation away, replace it with a dream they can taste, and you will see what happens"<br/><br/>All was said just so he and Titan could hear.<br/><br/>"Also I have this plan, if we treat him well and I charm others I can get HIM to teach them how to use those repeating crossbow things, then he can encourage them to join us being a sergant of a small group helping us ! For he would have undergone the same thing they did, convince them better than I can, so they see my  spell to charm them was not to fool them but to snap them out of their previous foolery ! For something a lot more promising. You heard the man and his background, he hasn't had a chance. We are his chance. We are his dream !<br/><br/>For us ? We need allies, and with a few like him that actually are not but friends helping ! All perhaps with repeating crossbows of their own if we can afford to give them some and horses, short swords, armour, decent boots, gloves some gold to spend on whatever they want to feel proud enough to turn ladies heads - then Sethi, you and I become the head of something larger ! No more running, others run from US ! Better they offer to join and help !"<br/><br/>Chloe smiled sincerely then shrugged<br/><br/>"Besides the thing weighs a ton, on my back alone its ok, but with scroll cases also, it pinches and puts creases in my robes, its useful but well, so is a house, use it ? Sure ... others seeing to it being used on your behalf and maintaining it ? Even if they call it their own ? Better !"<br/>