<div class="floatright">(http://safebooru.org//samples/858/sample_451760217a5c4f31ce08785e2f171c7f5a86162c.jpg?863576)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Jie Qi Shrahadma (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=293013.msg14396253#msg14396253)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Council meeting room, Avalon;<strong>TRANSIT</strong>to World Gate, Aelum<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>Well-kept tunic and trousers, boots, curveblade, backpack/essentials<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open/Everyone<br/><hr/><br/><strong>"I agree,"</strong>the Warborn woman says lightly, coming to her own feet as Kemuri secures the rolled scroll that is their great escort piece.<strong>"We are on official business, reinforcing the garrison at Harmon -- really, we're about as important a delivery ourselves as the scroll is."</strong><br/><br/>Shifting to face the others, she bows formally at the waist.<strong>"Since we will be one another's closest allies for the next while... I am Jie Qi Shrahadma.  I look forward to working with you all."</strong><br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><strong>*</strong><br/>on the other side of the world gate... <br/><strong>*</strong></div><br/><br/>The experience of teleportation is not...<em>new</em>, strictly speaking.  She's used a World Gate once before, moving from Shien -- where her company worked from -- to Avalon proper.  Still, it's not easier the second time around -- that half-moment's sense of being one place, then someplace that is also no place, then some other place again.  With a bit of concentration, she stilled the flutter of her heart, taking her hand off the hilt of the long shien-style curveblade at her hip, and relaxed into the moment.<br/><br/>This was the farthest, and the loneliest, she had ever been from home.<br/><br/>Once they've been properly processed through the queue, Jie Qi briefly surveys the busy city grounds ahead.  Her instinct is to go high and scout the best way out from there, but the others of the group couldn't follow her -- and some of the lessons her cadre has drilled in to her have stuck -- and one of them is finding a way to get paid several times for doing one job.<strong>"I think we should spend a bit of time seeing if there's any work we can do on the side for our journey to Harmon,"</strong>she says, turning to face the others.<strong>"Couriers, caravans, the like.  Is there anyone else fluent in Akka who'd like to help me with that?"</strong>