<div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/8/8a/JinxTiefling.png/436px-JinxTiefling.png)</div>Thyriellentha receives a mock-wounded look  from the tiefling in return for her unsubtle emphasis about the boots being loaned. As if Ghaazala would stoop to stealing footwear! Still, the tiefling has certainly put up with worse slights.<br/><br/>In a similar vein, she overlooks Elle’s labeling. One must excuse the mad. She can even excuse Cail, given that she didn’t name herself earlier, and she's built up a thick hide for insults in the past few years of guard-work. It's hard to collect one's pay if one gets fired for starting unnecessary brawls instead of simply finishing the necessary ones. “To you, the goat lady’s name,” she murmurs evenly enough, “...Is Ghaazala. And lucky you, it won’t scorch your tongue to pronounce it.” She glances at Inanna, smiling slightly "Pheketbastet to you, if you desire."  The tiefling pauses, the smile turning into an almost feral grin as she looks towards Adrian, all sharp teeth and no joy at all, and with more than a bit of aggressive fire in her eyes.<br/><br/>"Calling me Y̅͑ͥ̂͌̀̚͠҉͔͇̗̻t̃̍͂̌̒̋͊͏̸̫̱h͒͒́ͫ͆͋̀̓́͜͏̝̙͚̝̝r̢̰ͪ̎̄͠a̸͖͔̣̎͋ͪ̃͗ͮ̿̈́c̛̓ͣ͏̙͚̖͖͖x̵̫̼̥̤͙̱̗͛͛ͦ͗̅̆ͦ won't gain you a thimble's worth of power over me...And I'm perfectly happy with that." Even to people who<em>don't</em>speak Infernal, that word sounds like it actually<em> might</em>scorch someone's tongue...It's a monstrous sounding language...It's ugly, it's evil, and it's harsh and somehow an unforgiving language...Nothing that should come out of any<em>good</em>person's mouth.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Names, names, names</div><div class="spoiler_body">With nearly a dozen characters, some of whom haven't posted character sheets publicly, I'm not going to say "X knows Y" for everybody, so you'll have to check what languages your character knows yourself. ;) Ghaazala is Theskan, a language from a place North of Thay on the Golden Way and as far away from Waterdeep as Khabul is from London, and means exactly what one might think...Gazelle. As a devotee of Sharess, Inanna will recognize Pheketbastet regardless of whether she knows Mulhorandi or not...It's literally "Servant of Bastet"...and a servant of Sharess would know that Bastet is one of the lesser (and also one of the older) incarnations of the goddess, Sharess having first come to Faerun as "Bast". <br/><br/>As for what she said to Adrian...If anyone speaks Infernal, it's basically the most polite and respectful form of address to a female devil. Effectively the diabolic equivalent to "Ma'am" or "Mistress."</div></div><br/>She snags a pair of boots that look rather too large for her…until she shifts her feet out from under the table, revealing somewhat deer-like cloven hooves, painted white and clad from the dewclaws up in ornately tooled and riveted spats of dark blue leather...Their most striking ornamentation being long, sturdy piton-like spikes that reach nearly to the floor when she stands and angle back slightly as if ready to dig in. Ghaazala pulls the Watch’s sewer-boots on gingerly over these, shifting them over the leather but beneath the freestanding spines and wiggling her bifurcated hooves as the enchanted footwear tries to deal with the peculiar shape of her 'feet'. Eventually, the tiefling gets the enchanted boots situated so that she has the necessary flexibility, then sweeps one of the proferred vials into a pouch. “That would be two-<em>fifths</em>of the advance you mentioned,” she murmurs to Rulathon, before uncorking the second vial and tossing its contents back with a grimace and a shake of her horned head.<br/><br/>Ghaazala re-corks the emptied vial and sets it on its side, rolling it with the flick of a fingertip back down the table towards the Watch-wizard. “Presumin’ the rest of you are ready to begin, and unless our employers have more to say other than regarding our payment…?” She cocks her head slightly in Rulathon’s direction once more. “…I’m ready to do my part.”