Cassia approached the sermon from a crowded street and a safe distance, so she could stay unnoticed by two preaching unless she wanted to make sure they saw her attending. She heard countless speeches in the Imperial guard in her past, she held many herself even. These two weren't all too bad, clearly practiced in rhetoric and one in particular quite keen on the reactions of the audience, displaying an uncanny ability to feel them out and then bring up something relevant to them in order to keep their attention.<br/>As for what they were preaching about, it was not unlike what religions did, except that these speakers didn't go into salvation or a promised afterlife in exchange for service. They tried to appeal to the people who were miserable in their lives and were hanging on to hope that they could escape or improve on it even when society and the world were stepping on them. The offer of these priests was to make sense in the chaos and confusion of the countless lies and deceptions the people were subjected to in their lives, and to find the truth among all of it, or as they put it "Find the true meaning behind a thousand voices" not through communion with a deity after their deaths, but by reflection, meditation and most of all service still during their lifetime.<br/>Having acquired an understanding for the layout of the town and gotten enough relevant information on the locals, the paladin knew that the city had a number of smaller shrines the people could visit, it did not have a temple dedicated to any deity. That could also explain why ears could pick up the convincing nothings these preachers went on about. A real cleric, or Cassia herself if careful enough could probably find converts just as easily, or find powerful enough arguments to clear the heads of any who were seduced by these cultists. As it appeared for the moment, the girls wouldn't be the only ones on the return trip as several low-class locals expressed interest and started asking questions, questions that the practiced speakers were ready for. Being rather insightful herself, Cassia also noticed that the folk who bothered to stop and listen to the sermon were mostly either among the younger age group or from the poor or lower middle classes of society, people that made out the majority of the population, blending together in their numbers enough that a handful of them going missing overnight might even go unnoticed, or the questions asked by their relatives would fall to deaf ears.<br/><br/>A street away, Ember was violently taken in the back, hard enough to get her satisfied to her liking and also make her lose her voice. The man she was getting so well acquainted with was nearly turning her inside out, her seduction and insistence on using her back passage bringing out the animal in him. Even as his pleasure flooded her bowels, he'd not let the opportunity to make a lasting impression slip, moving to finger her cunt and spank her raw, carrying her over one release to the other until his vigor returned and he could violate her ass for the third time, leaving her gaping and in a spent daze in the rooftop, wearing her new friend's latest load on her ass, back and in her hair once he wiped himself with a handful.<br/>"You're a good lass. Look me up if you need anything while in town. I'll see if  I can hook you up with whatever you need, as long as I get to hook up with you. Next time I'm taking that wet little cunt though." he said, patting her on the head, his ego and confidence taking quite the boost that day after the girl who bribed him returned for seconds. He left, leaving Ember on the roof, used and filthy.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Ember does get a criminal contact in the city, but the exhaustion isn't gone. She needs to finish a long rest, like a full nights sleep to get rid of it.</div></div>