Aria felt chagrin (but not surprise) when the mage passed her off as his whore...but oh well, whatever achieved her ends. Hopefully the guards would be too worried about magic reprisals to try to snatch 'his whore'. One way or another, the foray back into town seemed to've gone smoothly. Besides, Aria had no intention of coming back to this thug-ridden town anytime soon, so it hardly mattered if the locals got the idea she were a whore or card-cheat.<br/><br/>At the tree, she smiled apologetically at her new friends at his demeanor,  although she didn't mind his rambling that much - preferable to leching over her personally! She asked Keela and Feyua, "Either of you recommend a good place to be safely away from our captors, and maybe find some new honest work? I myself, by the by, am more or less in the adventuring profession these days, retrieving kidnapped girls and maybe dispatching the scoundrels behind it, maybe an occasional treasure hunt of the information checks out, things like that."<br/><br/>She then drew her eyes meaningfully from Feyua to the mage and back to Feyua: the mage was of course quite the lech, and Aria had gotten the sense that  Feyua was the most inclined or apt to use wiles to get what one needed from a man like that.<br/>