<div class="floatleft">(http://i66.tinypic.com/2diegso.jpg)</div><br/><br/>Her lips twisting, Mia turned back once more as the innkeeper spoke.  Her liquid brown eyes dropped to the coin on the counter, watching it a moment before her gaze went to the man holding it, her lovely features unreadable.  Moment after moment passed, her gaze steady.<br/><br/>Finally, the ghost of a smile appeared on her lips.  "Very well.  But a brief look, only.  A few moments."  She said archly.  She turned smoothly to Cassia, bowing at her narrow waist, the same half smile on her lips.  "Let it not be said that I do not contribute to the group.  I am already saving our coin."<br/><br/>Again, she turned.  "This way, then?"  She walked slowly in the direction the innkeeper had indicated, letting him lead the way.  Her long legs and curving hips gave her walk an appealing sway.  But she moved with a fighter's grace, not a seductive strut, lacking both the knowledge of how to make her walk more appealing, and the desire to do so.