<div class="floatright">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d8/bd/dc/d8bddcf915691f1a6084e11275d75f18--mother-art-dota-.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Cassandra Blackbriar (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1252610)</strong></span><br/>Place:  The afterlife still, or back on the Prime Material Plane?<br/>Time:  Late evening last she knew<br/>Wearing:  Now wearing this (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/79/d2/d1/79d2d13df7fbfedaaf75bb8146122709.jpg) plus red lacy undergarments and medium height dark brown leather traveler's boots.<br/>Inventory:  Belt with pouches, 2 sets of fine clothing plus undergarments<br/>Tagging:  New friends, and Lady Adelaide Meeks<br/><br/>She had expected a great deal from Adelaide, but being comforted, of having those soft fingers running through her brunette locks, even if it were only for a few moments, hadn't been in her imagined list of responses from the murderous bard.  The downright human gleam in those cold blue eyes was just as startling in its own right, but Cassandra had no willpower to resist the unexpected embrace.  If anything, she was quite content to remain right where she was as she closed her green eyes, her cheek flush against Adelaide's chest, and simply breathe deep of the woman's scent for as long as she was allowed, which unsurprisingly wasn't that long.  The playful flick to her nipple and the bard's musical if eerie laughter were ample hints that she was reaching the end of her patience, but Cassandra was much more herself by that point as she pulled away about that time.<br/><br/>Silently she stood once Adelaide backed off, and smiled much more freely now that she'd calmed down, before turning to the clothes she had set aside.  It didn't take her long to make herself presentable before making a beeline for a pair of boots she had spotted.  Once she had finished putting herself together, only then did she nod to Sena's question regarding their new purpose in life as she fell in behind the bard, just as she'd done before.<strong>"As far as we're all aware, yes, we're to corrupt as many people as we can while keeping each other alive and well.  Our new Queen didn't specify much more than that, but Maldred here has the right idea.  We'll need to get our cover stories straight, or we're going to have a very short campaign together.  Luckily, outside of a few people at least, my own is being the sole survivor of a demonic attack on my family's estate.  No one in my village knows I was the cause of all that death and destruction, an illusion I wasn't about to shatter for obvious reasons.  For now, I can walk around openly so long as that image isn't ruined."</strong><br/><br/>Regardless of what the other's said about that, Cassandra had since reached out to Adelaide's shoulder before gently squeezing the woman's arm, her long, delicate fingers quite soft if strong despite their appearance.<strong>"Thank you...for allowing me my moment of hysteria.  I'll...try to grab life more readily now that I'm actually free to do so, but let's not go too quickly into the night, shall we?  Even if I hadn't had such a controlling mother, I'd likely still advise moderation in all things.  I'll likely change my tune in due course, but I'm alright with taking this slowly, for now at least."</strong>She shrugged in any event, but she didn't pull away from the bard without giving her a clear indication she truly meant to live a little.  To that end, she leaned in close to Adelaide's right ear from behind, her now covered breasts squashed against the bard's back, and clicked her teeth together just in front of the woman's sensitive lobe before letting her tongue flick across the flesh of her neck.<strong>"Besides, I want you to show me the way."</strong>She whispered into Adelaide's ear, before sucking tenderly on her earlobe.  With that, the sorceress was content to let things go at that as she joined Adelaide in the next room properly, her right hand once more upraised and crackling with magical energy.<br/><br/>(Perception:  Roll: 1d20a2 Result: 9 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=105169))