"Thank you, Onyx," Alissara smiled at the retainer and gave a half bow when he greeted her.  She was much changed, very proper and polite, richly dressed in tight blue leathers and silks with copper chains that subtly showed her bodies cuves to great advantage without baring an inch of flesh bellow the throat.  Her hand rested easily on the hilt of her reeper daiklaive, sheathed on the copper link belt aound her waist.  She wore supple blue kid gloves and elegent hearthstone bracers with the Manse's stone over one wrist.<br/><br/>Striding through the halls of the manse, she knocked three times on her mother's door and entered when invited.