<div class="floatright">(https://www.dropbox.com/s/8uhwgxjacupikue/Ikuko.jpg?raw=1)</div><strong>Ikuko (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=313925.msg15196076#msg15196076)</strong><hr/><br/>Ikuko hmmms.  “It’s not what we drink, but why that I am thinking about.  Draconis tradition holds that if you share a ceremonial drink with others, it binds you together as brothers and sisters.  There is a great deal we do not know about our patron or our mission.  We have only each other to depend on from this point on.  We are all strangers to each other, and that is our bond in the strange place we are headed towards.”<br/><br/>She lowers her voice to ask Sebastian for something clear, then holds it up.  “A band of brothers and sisters?” she asks, waiting o see if everyone, or anyone, responds to th toast.  She certainly sounds sincere.  And polite.