<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/AyxZ98e.jpg)<br/><div align="center">Piliana</div></div><br/><strong>"Ohmygoshyes!"</strong>the woman spat out, almost as if she had trouble waiting for Izusa to finish.<strong>"Such a nice library, not the nicest I've ever seen, not like the one in Eden'del of course but very nice, lots of books, very reasonable membership fees that you can pay for by the week, month, or year.  I had to leave a deposit though since I didn't have a permanant address, just a temporary one.  The library is for land owners of the city and the surrounding area, but it's technically open to anyone who can pay the membership fees and leave a deposit."  She tapped her shield, "Actually getting the deposit back is what paid for this specifically.  Everything's super well organized, and the staff is primarily all Naga, I think maybe they may be related, family like, you know, like maybe a clan of them, they certainly look similar, but that could just be a fact of them being naga and having been made by magic."</strong>A short breath,<strong> "You know that a lot of naga here in Pandora's lands used to be human like me?  Or well, humanoid, like elves or whatever.  Well I'm sure you know, I mean look at you.  Were you a human once, or were you bred true into a beastkin by corrupted parents?"</strong><br/><br/>Izusa must have had a look on her face because the woman just ran away with her thought,<strong>"Oh I didn't mean any offense, but that's what you, you know, you are, right?  Corrupted?  It's fine, some of my best friends have been corrupted, and it's totally fine, no problem, I never hold that against anyone.  Live and let live my mothers used to say all the time.  Can't go getting your hand stung if you don't put it in the bee hive was another thing they said, which maybe, in this case would have been good advice for me to take, then that way I wouldn't have upset you in the first place.  Again, I hope I didn't upset you, but..."  She paused for a tick, "Wait, what did you say?  Worship Pandora?  Of course they do.  That's the only religion allowed in Pandora's lands, what else would... OH, I see what you meant, you meant do they worship pandora heavily there as opposed to some of the more religious centers.  I guess maybe not so much, but yeah of course there's a few churches and the grand temple, but everyone worships Pandora, right?  I mean, she's literally the goddess that's in control of these lands.  Hahahahaha can you imagine?  Could you even literally imagine if someone tried to worship another diety here?  I mean, I guess you MIGHT get away with Cyril worship this close to the river, but there's certainly no churches or temples to HIM!  Hahhahahaha, no, of course not."</strong><br/><br/>She stopped long enough to dip a wooden spoon into the makeshift stew that was bubbling over the cook fire, then took it out, blew on it and tasted it.  She made a slight grimace and poured a little more water in.<strong>"Ten more minutes maybe, needs to soften the dried meats a little more.  So much better than eating raw rations, right?  That's one thing I learned from the books  Some easy tricks for survival out in the wilds.  You'd never think of it, but yeah, just a little water and rations to soften the dried meat and you get a thin but tasty stew, less salty than just eating dried beef I say.  You can throw in some hard tack too if you want to thicken it, but me, I'd rather just soften the tack by dipping it into the stew when it's done.  More fun that way, kind of like playing with your food, ya know?  Hahahahaha."</strong><br/><br/>She looked at Izusa,<strong>"I don't have much but you can have a little bit of it when it's ready if you'd like.  I don't mind sharing.  Speaking of sharing are we going to share bedrolls?  I wouldn't mind getting my honey pot licked by you, you're pretty cute."</strong><br/><br/>The way she said it was so casual, so shockingly casual, as if it was almost a foregone conclusion, that for a moment Izusa almost didn't take advantage of the break in her chatter to answer.