( ... No, she realises, he probably isn't. He probably just got tangled up in an octopus by chance, and has been spinning around in that alleyway ever since. She ignores that unappealling pop as he settles apace behind her — good, hopefully this shouldn't be too complicated — )
... A new arrival such as myself ought to make a reasonable impression.
( It always helps to be vaguely in the good books, after all. In Waloed she'd been taken in under Cid, who'd provided a direct line to the king himself, and while Benedikta doesn't imagine she'll get so lucky this time around she at least knows how to play the early stages of the game.
... Alright, that and she needs to better feel out the mages and the maicks of Thorne. If she's to retrieve what's left of Garuda's power, she has to start somewhere. She glance back over her shoulder: )
I have no intention of being left in a corner to rot.
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Aren't you?
( ... No, she realises, he probably isn't. He probably just got tangled up in an octopus by chance, and has been spinning around in that alleyway ever since. She ignores that unappealling pop as he settles apace behind her — good, hopefully this shouldn't be too complicated — )
... A new arrival such as myself ought to make a reasonable impression.
( It always helps to be vaguely in the good books, after all. In Waloed she'd been taken in under Cid, who'd provided a direct line to the king himself, and while Benedikta doesn't imagine she'll get so lucky this time around she at least knows how to play the early stages of the game.
... Alright, that and she needs to better feel out the mages and the maicks of Thorne. If she's to retrieve what's left of Garuda's power, she has to start somewhere. She glance back over her shoulder: )
I have no intention of being left in a corner to rot.