Elise wasn't thrilled to have to do something other than act or entertain in some other fashion in an attempt to make money.  Still, Listan had not turned out to be as charming and as cultural as some of the areas of Mulmoran and she regretted altering her course and following those drunken bards who had business here.  While getting any kind of "real" work seemed out of the picture Elise couldn't turn down the opportunity to make<em>that </em>much money! 1,000 gold!  Sure her family had that and more and if she really wanted it back in O'Seer it would be hers...but this was different...this was earning it, on her own, an ideal that had a certain rustic appeal to the naive rich city girl.<br/><br/>Besides, it was like...a mystery story...her father had read them to her when she was young so she figured that gave her a leg up on most of the yocals here in Listan, add to that her extensive education which likely was vastly beyond what anyone in Listan had access to and she was sure that she was a good candidate for the job!  Not that it mattered of course.  Captain Brackett didn't seem to be too picky right now and Elise was quite sure that if he was picky... it still wouldn't matter, he'd let her do anything.  Elise wasn't very observant of the world around her, but she knew how to read others, especially men, and especially men that kept looking at her, and Captain Brackett kept looking at her.  Of course he didn't make eye contact... she had scene this before.  Likely, he assumed that if he just examined the rest of her body with his eyes it would be like he wasn't really looking at her, and she wouldn't know... of course she did know, and he knew she knew...but he couldn't be caught because he never stopped to see if he was being caught!  It didn't matter...that 1,000 gold just got really easy to get, the Captain wouldn't be able to say no to her.<br/><br/>As the Captain, and then Tara talked, Elise sat with one leg crossed over the other kicking the foot that was off the floor up and down lightly, there was a shiny silver wedge shoe attached to her foot, and given her short dress the leg was bare and so she was fine using the motion to distract the Captain...it gave him at least one place to look other than her eyes!  Elise wasn't dressed in any of the adventuring gear that Tara or Kyet donned, in addition to her shoes she wore a short, thigh length, low-cut dress with a built in corset.  It was made of glistening white satin and had an empire waist trim capped off by a bow in the front that rested right between her breasts, the bottom and top of the dress was trimmed with fluffy white marabou, a material she had been wearing alot of recently as it matched well with the cooler weather.  Over top of all of these was a long matching robe, also trimmed with marabou, though the robe fit loosely and as she was seated it was currently less over top of her and more so underneath, resting on the chair like a blanket.  She say silently shaking her foot and keeping her eye contact locked on the Captain.<br/><br/>Eventually Tara spoke, she seemed practical, condensed...like alot of personality was crammed into a small frame.  As she spoke Elise listened less to what she said and sort of examined her up and down.  Back in O'Seer, in her schools there were girls that looked and acted like her...they were always nice enough but usually lacked the social grace of Elise and her friends, and they liked to play sports...many of them went on to join what few positions in the guard women could have, or some other civil servant job.  Sometimes Elise could get girls like that to do what she wanted, but sometimes not...they always seemed to have priorities that the vain blonde couldn't wrap her brain around.<br/><br/>When Tara was finished Elise looked briefly to Kyet, to see if he would speak next.  Elise couldn't figure him out as easily as she had [presumedly] figured the Captain and Tara out.  He was quiet, like he was always bothered by something it seemed, though he was nice enough that was for sure!  The young diva didn't wait long for Kyet to chime in and instead did so her self.   "That's a good idea Tara, uhmmm....yeah, we should do more things like trying to figure out what the girls had in common?  You know, like what Tara said about where they were taken?  And then if you could give us a list Captain maybe one of us could talk to the families and friends of the victims and see if they had anything else in common.  I think that would be a good place for us to start." A quizzical look materialized upon Elise's face then before she perked up once again, "Oh!  And, uhmmm...while I do that..." (in her mind Elise suspected only she would have the social tact to talk to grieving commoners), "we could also check in on some of Listan's well known criminals?  Like some places still have harems and slaves and stuff, so maybe someone here has decided to get into the business of selling these girls?  I'm not really from here so I don't know any of the slimy guild leaders or anything....think there might be anyone here in Listan that might get into something like that Captain?" she tilted her head to the side a bit, awaiting his thoughts.<br/><br/>current outfit: http://trashy.com/Snow-Flake-Dress.5814-product.htm (http://trashy.com/Snow-Flake-Dress.5814-product.htm)<br/>shoes: http://www.sears.com/qupid-women-s-pulse-05-glitter-wedge-silver-glitter/p-035VA46376601P (http://www.sears.com/qupid-women-s-pulse-05-glitter-wedge-silver-glitter/p-035VA46376601P)<br/><br/>