<div class="floatleft">(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg142/ElectricBadger/Characters/90031511-ebbe-4b70-853d-8fb39e25b4f3_zps2a26dcef.jpg)    </div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Arianna Morgan</span><br/>Kitsune Transmuter & Bartender (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=178661.msg8519539#msg8519539)<br/>Location: The Study<br/>Tagging: Roland<hr/>Arianna raised her glass, sighing inwardly.  Well, bother.  Surely she'd mentioned their guild name a few times during negotiations?  It was all over the contract she'd written.  He must have found Amatha more distracting than he let on.  She was tempted to just let the comment go, as Viralae was so obviously intent upon doing.  They could simply head home, tie the silly girl down and finish her virginity, let the warehouse district burn and pass the necromancers the blame for it.  That sort of mistaken identity only held up for long in bad plays and farcical ballads, however; too many people had seen them, and even though the messenger didn't realize whose guild he'd gone to, he'd surely remember which one it was.<br/><br/>No; in truth, they'd either fail and be blamed for impersonating another guild, or they'd succeed and have their spoils delivered to others.  Truth was best, and might even get them out of this altogether.  This whole business smelled like a dead rat, after all, even without her fox's nose.<br/><br/>Arianna smiled and joined in the toast.  "To the Phantom Twilight guild.  I'm sure they're very lovely, although they're a bit grim for my tastes.  You don't mean to imply your summons was intended for them, do you?  If you'd prefer their ilk, I'm sure there's still plenty of time to contact them."  She was, in fact, fairly sure there wasn't, but she was rather hoping he'd try.  "Otherwise, we really ought to finish up and begin ourselves...."  With her left hand, she politely slid the trade agreement toward Roland and awaited his signature.  It gave a few concessions, but the stable supply and demand would give the Fox Tail a rebirth.