<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=227485.msg11169802#msg11169802">Quote from: JoanieSappho on 17-04-2015, 17:49:59</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Caro's response to the hug is another flush of red on her cheeks, although she makes no effort to pull away or, when Orchid pulls back, to not look at her exposed body. <br/>After all, she <em>was</em> an acolyte of the goddess of beauty, so admiring the pretty halfling was what she was supposed to do, she was fairly sure.<br/><br/>"I ... I'm not sure," she responded to Orchid's inquiry about the attitudes of city folk to hugging, her voice soft, light and incredibly shy as she fidgeted with the small silver songbird that hangs around her neck. Preparing to explain that she's just as lost here as Orchid seems to be, Caro instead shrank back as the human man loomed over them.<br/>As Orchid answered him, however, the young halfling seemed to steady herself, taking a deep breath before speaking up for herself, her voice only showing <em>some</em> of the nervousness she feels. "I'm not sure about saviour," she begins, tilting her head back to look up. "But I ... I'm an acolyte of Myhriss. Whatever I can do to help, I must. And <em>will</em>. It might only be a small part, but I will do it. And if Orchid says she will, then at least she will try, clothes or no!"<br/>The obviously young halfling's reply might have been just a bit better if her voice wasn't trembling quite so much, though.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The burly man responded with a laugh, "Oh, so what are you going to do?  Love the invaders to death?"<br/><br/>tag - Caro<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=227485.msg11169828#msg11169828">Quote from: Etherealgirl on 17-04-2015, 17:59:17</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>"Yes! You can rest assured, man-child, we will do what we can to aid this town, and your kin as well. Regardless if you find it reassuring to your manhood to mock us." she said with conviction. <br/><br/>Orchid turned to face Caro and took her hand into her own, trying to slip away from the human. Her hand was soft, yet firm. The half naked halfling looked to Caro as she tried to lead them past the human and to the bar. "I'm afraid he was right. I do not have money, for lodge tonight. Maybe we can share a room?" she asked hopefully, her emerald colored eyes sparkling behind long black strands of hair. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The humor left the man's face when he was called a man-child.  In its place was a scowl.  "That's a really humorous thing to say to someone who has children that are bigger than you at full age, halfling.  Care to take this outside?  We can see how brave you are then!"<br/><br/>A sense of disquiet entered the room and another voice, higher in pitch, though unseen said, "Leave them alone.  No need to spill innocent blood over words."<br/><br/>tag - halflings