(http://uc.exteenblog.com/saintzoul/images/seinarukana/character/ruptna.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Ralena Tharin</span><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Leolt city streets<br/><strong>With:</strong>Luca<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Ralena listened to him with a pleasant smile on her face while he talked about what he usually spent his time doing whenever he wasn't out doing missions. Oddly enough, Luca would have start to feel the strength in his arm return almost the instant that he left the alleyway, and the cut was put in direct sunlight. Considering that Gregory had proven himself to use some kind of shadow magic before then, it wasn't unreasonable to believe that the shadows in the alleyway had something to do with the stiffness and difficulty of motion in his arm. Either way, once he was finished and had asked his question about what Ralena spent her time doing, the black haired girl awkwardly dropped her gaze, speaking in a slightly lower and more subdued tone then was the norm for her. "Actually, uh... I don't do a whole lot when I'm not out doing missions. Most of the time I take jobs that require me to travel far away from Magnolia, so I'm almost never there. I like traveling, you know? Seeing new places, new things, stuff like that? Besides, I... uh..."<br/><br/>Her cheeks got slightly pink, and her voice dropped all the more. "I've figured out that I don't have very many skills outside of fighting, so it's not like I've gotten the chance to pick up very many hobbies..." Judging from the look on her face, this was obviously something that she was embarrassed about. On Ralena's side, she had actually spent years trying out different things to see if any kind of activity or hobby clicked with her, but all of them ended with failure, and she came to believe that she didn't have any talent for anything outside of fighting. Perhaps that had to so with why she got so restless whenever she was at the Guild Hall, or in Magnolia in general, for too long a time.<br/><br/>................................................<br/><br/>(http://i.imgur.com/Blj66.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Gaius Eigenfilter</span><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Bar in Leolt<br/><strong>With:</strong>Alice, Lyuk<br/><br/>"Pleasure to meet you, Alice.". After that, Gaius went silent for a moment until Alice asked him what the next 'extra' bet would be, and he shrugged. "I'll let you know when I come up with something, for now, how about we just play?" Strange, considering that he had only just gone on a big spiel about how he wanted something more thrown onto each bet, in order to comply with the spirit of the gambler and potentially lose more then just a pile of jewels. Either way, the next couple of hands would be mundane, Gaius not adding any special twists of his own while the group just played them out. Just like before, Alice would find it damn near impossible to get any kind of bead on the man, as his confident and cool demeanor seemed to be permanently fixed in place. He'd win a couple of hands, and fold a couple of times right off the bat, meaning that he went into the 'name' hand deliberately intending to lose instead of trying to bluff his way out. For each hand he'd either keep his pair and win the hand, or he'd fold right off the bat with no middle ground whatsoever between the man's actions and the results of them, which would make for some intriguing mind games later in the night if they kept dealing the cards.<br/><br/>However, the group was interrupted when a man about Alice's age, and a couple of years younger then Gaius, made his way to the table and dropped a massive sack of jewels, as he asked to buy in. Looking up at him, the smirk across Gaius' features would only grow as he shrugged. "I don't see why not. With money like that, I'm going to have a fairy hard time turning you down.<br/><br/>Wait...<em>what?</em>