<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/1/1d/Kyla_Thumb.JPG)</div><br/>Kyla<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">AC 14 (nude)<br/>hp 6<br/><br/>Perception +2 (Passive +12)<br/>Sense Motive +0<br/></div></div><br/>"Necromancy is the layman's term for it, yes."  She sipped her mead and wondered, not for the first time, if unthinking prejudice would rear its ungainly head here yet again.  "I consider myself a Scientist, in pursuit of longevity and the improvement of the sapient condition.  It just so happens that the bulk of medical research is best conducted on those already passed.  For the record, I have yet to 'animate' the dead.  I study them, nothing more."<em>yet</em><br/><br/>"A rogue and a.. gunman.  Quite an interesting pairing to be sure, and definitely ones which would supplement our existing skills rather adequately, I should think.  Very well, I believe we can indeed work together.  It will be of benefit to us all."  She smiled and nodded at Tess's reassurances that she did not pilfer from her companions.  Why was it that practically every lightfinger out there insisted on such hard and fast moral boundaries?  Kyla, for one, wouldn't hesitate to pursue her studies at the expense of her traveling companions, so long as it didn't impede their goals.<br/><br/>The sound of the Guard's arrival, and the subsequent announcement had her chuckling into her cup.  So it would seem that the merchant hadn't quite cleared his enterprise with the local authorities before engaging in such blatantly non-standard hiring practices.  All the better.  That would clear away more of the riff-raff competition.  She set her mug down, and licked her lips.  "Well then, that sounds like our signal.  And a signal of fortuitous providence to our meeting it is, as well.  I have some gear to collect from our room.  Shall we meet out front in say, ten minutes, and head to the gate and make our way outwards?"