<br/><div class="floatright">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v484/FujinAkari/MystcharCaster.jpg)<br/></div><strong>Lexiralithera "Lexi"</strong><br/><em><br/>Lexi's coughed softly.  Someone <strong>else</strong> had heard her words to Kendra at the front door?  What the hell were with these people?  Did all adventurers have super-human hearing.  She shook her head and raised a hand to her throat daintily, offering the blonde-haired human with entirely too much metal wrapped about her slender frame a polite smile, hoping to assuage any suspicion of her coughing in response to the woman's comment, even though that is entirely what happened.<br/><br/>Her eyebrows rose slightly as Innoki addressed her directly and she offered him a tight smile.  Oh 'noki... there he was trying to be matter-of-fact and callous like usual, wouldn't he ever learn that one couldn't ever convince someone with dry and boring statements alone?  She licked her lips slightly and shrugged.</em>"Its been there fifty years... that is true.  Its also killed a man of no small skill, and everyone in this room knows it will kill again.  Now, I'm all for not running in blind, and I can see a good lick of sense in the notion... but if your argument is we should sit here until the seats rot out from beneath us..."<br/><br/><em>She raised her hands before her, palms wide and fingers splayed in a staying motion to the quip she knew the other elf was preparing.</em>"No no, I know that isn't your plan at all, wipe that glower off your face... but you haven't told us what you want to wait -for-.  All you've bloody well said is the temple will still be there in a few days so we can afford to wait here and find... what?  What is it you're looking for, precisely?"<br/><br/><em>She smiled a bit, glancing at the dwarf as he rumbled his ascent to get geared up for the journey.</em>"If there is something on your mind or some danger you want to research, name it and let us help.  However, just expecting us to sit about and wait for you to bloody well decide you're ready?  You can't expect others to respect you if you aren't taking their views into account."<br/><br/><em>She frowned slightly.  God, she sounded like his mother, and she offered him a shy smile, lamely adding</em>"...at least it seems to me, but I'm the new girl and you may have said more to explain your concerns before I walked in..."