<div class="floatleft">(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/255/1/b/sketch_xxiii_by_charlie_bowater-d6lzqaz.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Shani Lamit</strong> (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=1078422)</span><br/><strong>AC:</strong>18<br/><strong>HP:</strong>Full<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Normal<br/><hr/><br/>Moisture clung to Shani's hair, dappled her lashes and shimmered on her warm skin as she made her way through the fog with a small black satchel dangling from her shoulder and a wedge of thick, white cheese in one hand.  As she walks, shivering a bit from the coolness of the pre-dawn morning, she slices curls off the wedge with a small knife and lifts them to her mouth to let them melt across her tongue.  The young cheese, fermented from sheep's milk and stippled with herbs, served as her breakfast and a way of warming herself before the sun began to rise.  As it did, she paused in the middle of the road, dimly aware of those standing at the gates, waiting for her, and stared toward the horizon with a faintly dreamy smile.  After a moment, she closed her shining, golden eyes and allowed the heat to pour across her skin, seeming to revive some part of her that lay dormant in the night.<br/><br/>Knowing that the others should not be forced to wait as she indulged in her ritualistic sun-worship, she gave herself only a few minutes of prayer to her gods, before opening her eyes once more and continuing toward the Marquis and her men.  A much brighter smile now graced her face as she approached and she dipped them each a pleasant nod, the fog-sheen of moisture on her dusky skin already rising in nearly-invisible streams of vapor as it evaporated.<strong>"Good morning!  It seems like it is going to be a beautiful day for traveling, though I don't envy any of you in your heavy armor."</strong>She laughed softly, her own clothing the same as the day before, though with a slightly different cut.  Apparently, she has more than one gauzy black dress that provides no obvious benefit whatsoever.  Well, besides being pretty to look at.