<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/zLc4pRz.jpg)</div><br/>The metal and wood man considered it for a moment and then nodded it's metallic head.  It's tinny hollow voice sounding from behind the metal face which did not move,<strong> "Normally I work for coin, but I have had little luck with employment today.  I accept your offer miss.  Your first payment?  You have an odd look to you, one that is not common among the humans I have seen in the days since I awoke from my forge.  Are you from the faded lands?  Tell me of where you come from and how you come here." </strong>He gestured to the road that lay beneath them,<strong> "and tell me where I am guiding you, for it is foolish to wander Laelith when you do not know your way firmly.  I shall guide you as you speak."</strong><br/><br/>Ralana nodded, satisfied that she had delivered Miyuki safely to Vii, and that he had appeared to accept her employment for literally no more then stories.  Though Vii was unlike most of the flesh and bone members of the guild, and it was hard knowing what a 'forged' was thinking behind their metal and wood skulls.  She turned and went back into the heat of the seven hells tavern.