<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/8/88/Ad085dd8e20c1a29a2a961113e95aa12.jpg)</div><strong>Character:</strong>Alni  (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=285757.msg14062605#msg14062605)<br/><strong>Mood:</strong>Tired<br/><strong>Frog-level:</strong>-1 Frog-level from seeing Largya's tongue<br/><strong>Tag:</strong>Largya, Svetlana, Skrum<br/><hr/>Alni mumbled his thanks as he was handed the second bowl, not bothering to look up. While he certainly did appreciate the food quite a bit, he was simply far too busy<em>showing</em>to properly say so. Once he was about half way done with his bowl, the boy finally took a rest, turning to watch the discussion at hand. Despite not being particularly fond of his current company, save for a couple entertaining exceptions, he had to admit that their outgoing attitudes made dealing with the locals a good deal easier, given he barely had to deal with them at all! Of course, it would certainly help if they weren't all so... odd, the boy wincing in disgust as Largya used her strange tongue to grab a bottle. He couldn't help but think it was an entirely unnecessary action, that would only serve to make the hosting couple even more uncomfortable than they obviously already were. Alni simply sighed in frustration, brushing his hair aside to pick up his scorpion before setting her down on the table, giving the arachnid an opportunity to stretch her legs. After skittering around a bit, she would stop and stare at Skrum, her beady eyes focusing intently on the jerboa. Alni mostly ignored this interaction, instead listening to Largya discuss her strategy for dealing with the bandits, though he found himself distracted as she continued to use that abnormal tongue of her's.<br/><br/>Once all talks of planning were done with, Alni would stand up as he rummaged through his backpack, pulling out a parchment with writing on it before he walked up to Svetlana. "Excuse me, you wouldn't happen to know where I could find a, uh..." he paused for a moment, looking down at the paper before continuing, "Vibrant pink flower with blood red spots? I was told something like that grew in this area." he looked up at the woman with hopeful eyes. In truth, he just wanted to find the damned flower so he could give up this charade of being some bandit hunting adventurer, preferably before he actually had to fight any. While the group would probably be annoyed with his leaving, he was sure they'd be able to deal with any fighting just fine without him. He reasoned that if anything, he was just holding them back, with his lack of any adventuring experience. He reasoned a lot of other things too, Alni trying to convince himself that he wouldn't be a complete asshole for just abandoning them.<br/><br/><br/>