<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/AyxZ98e.jpg)<br/><div align="center">Piliana</div></div><br/>The woman turned around and set down her bag, shield, and sword.  She turned and stretched,<strong> "Oh, you know how it goes.  Settle into one place for too long and your feet start to get antsy.  Wanderlust I guess they call it.  I've never been good at staying in one place for too long.  Jamahrone is a hell of a place.  Found a lot of work there," </strong>She spoke in a steady but non stop pace that somehow reminded Izusa a little bit of Iber's rambling speech,<strong>"Rolled into town a few months back with barely even clothing to my name.  Got caught out in the wilds by a pack of wild fuckbeasts, goblins that were mad with lust.  After they'd spent a few days fucking me raw, they lost interest in everything about me other than my gold and belongings."</strong><br/><br/>She laughed as if this was not that big a deal and continued on,<strong> "So when I got to Jamahrone Started out at the bottom, quite literally, worked at a pump station with the oh so clever name of 'The Wet Hole' at first." </strong>She rolled her eyes,<strong> "Which was nice in a way because it let me do some reading and studying, so I was ready to take a test to be a temple assistant, much better work than the pump station you know,"</strong>Izusa wanted to ask a question and even took in a breath to ask, but the human looking woman just kept speaking, barely taking a breath between sentences.<strong>"Better pay too, but that was kind of boring so as soon as I'd saved up enough money for a sword I tried my hand at guard work for a while.  Lot less sex on that job, and less pay, so it didn't last that long.  But then I got enrolled in the fuck-rena, oh boy!  There was a good time, and great money.  But you know, eventually crowds turn in favor of newer gladiators, and my popularity dropped off unless I was losing.  So I decided I'd go for a little walkabout, maybe check out a new city to the south.  Heck maybe I'll even come across someone who has a quest for me.  Me!  Like the adventurers in the stories, wouldn't that be great?"</strong><br/><br/>She stopped talking so suddenly that Izusa was surprised and almost didn't even know how to respond.  During the long rambling speech the woman had dug through her bag, set up a bed roll, put a iron hook in the ground near Izusa's fire, placed a small pot on the hook, and had begun adding some rations and water to the pot.  It was then when she'd asked if that would be great, and Izusa shocked into not knowing where to respond gave Piliana a chance to ask,<strong> "You don't talk very much do you stranger?"</strong>