<div class="floatright">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v484/FujinAkari/MystcharCaster.jpg)<br/></div><strong>Lexiralithera "Lexi"</strong><br/><em><br/>Lexi's jaw dropped in surprise.  She had introduced herself to Kendra in the other room, how had the human girl, whose hearing ought to be abyssal, managed to pick up on that?  She made a mental note to keep a closer eye on this one.  Her eyes then shifted around the room, feeling out the situation.  After a moment's consideration, she smiled.</em>"Well, what about this then.  We let all the book-noses have tonight to make whatever preparations need to be made and we head out in the basking heat of midmorning tomorrow.  It seems evident that rushing in unprepared will only get more people killed, and if the spooky undertones Innoki is implying ring with any truth, more death is exactly the wrong type of thing to give that place.  By the same token though, the prison is mysterious, and this is a sleepy hamlet.  We wait too long and the local teenagers will do what local teenagers always do with a place they are warned not to go.  I am all for preparing fully, but if we dawdle and others die, their blood is on our hands.<br/><br/>Fair?"<em>She shifts her amber eyes around the room, catching each gaze in turn unless the individual in question looked away.</em>