<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/3b/20100919230246-cb1fd7e8.jpg)    </div>An elf with ash-gray skin bends forward in a gesture of 'taking the floor', but she doesn't leave her chosen wall.<br/><br/>A black mist seems to trail and disappear from her saturnine leather armor like fog from a midnight lake.  Across her back, an elegant bow and a pack of considerable gear shows clearly-- she makes no effort to appear as though she is not far from her home, nor that she is anything less than a professional.  Her angular features grim and severe-- lovely, but perhaps more handsome than pretty, really, with brutal-gray eyes and tousled black hair, much of it pulled to a ponytail.<br/><br/>Speaking softly and mirthlessly, she introduces herself: "I'm Tha'ael, contracted by 'is lordship. Tasks and reconnaissance."<br/><br/>Seeming content to have offered this much, she straightens back and resumes her study of the others, taking inventory of their collective ability and potential, especially where it exceeds her own.