Aria listened with interest; she'd been not-quite-willing to directly ask about interbreeding between a shifter such as Rose had delineated herself, and those purely human. Perhaps because of her own genetic interloper of a great-grandmother, and the liaisons between humans and elves she'd seen amongst former adventuring allies and quite a few Silverymoon 'civilians', the subject had always interested her.<br/><br/>" 'Tis a sweet and none-too-common meeting, your parents'...and I'm glad it went so well 'twixt them, and with his tribe...for otherwise, the world would not have you!" she smiled at Rose. "I am reminded of a few accounts of...interactions between adventurers who set out from the civilized - relatively - parts of the Savage Frontier such as my home city, and the barbarians of far-north Icewind Dale. Suffice to say, the majority of liaisons 'twixt would-be-heroes and the fierce northwomen, or questing ladies and the yet-fiercer barbarian men, go not well in the end, if even they were better than captures and ravishing to begin with."<br/><br/>"Hmm, I had a great-grandfather who adventured up there, and a grandfather much later, each in their own time - though I don't believe my particular ancestry is owed to any shennanigans which might've befallen north of the Spine of the World."<br/><br/>As she spoke, she'd been twiddling a few of the rings on display - juggling a few even, so much so that the vendor seemed a bit nervous she might be planning to pilfer a few by some feat of ledgermain. She grinned and placed them back, wandering across the boardwalk to a narrow store. A musty but, to her at least, welcome smell of parchment wafted out from under its eaves. The place seemed to sell academic texts, saucy novels, scrolls of magic and blank spellbooks for budding mages. She spied a text with 'Cormyr' in teh title, and flipped through it idly. She remembered that Rose likely would've have interest or use for such things, and glanced at her with a lopsided grin. "Ahh, was it from your mother you first learned your fighting skills? And perhaps inherit whatever wanderlust eventually caused you to leave?"<br/>