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[SeriousConcentrate]

Chris hid a smile with his hand.

"You really shouldn't jiggle like that, Charlotte. I'm engaged, you know."

Well, that was probably enough teasing Gregor.

"So, what about YOUR plans for the future, miss Braxis?"

[Gamerboy4life]

"You could have probably asked Anja, she might have had some money for you." Seyena half-joked, half-scoffed.

Nethertheless, she handed Alex 300 coins.

"It's not much, but go wild- I don't believe I have any use for it. Anything I want to buy myself, is way out of range."

[Sirus]

: Dammit Chris, why did you have to mention that? I was trying not to stare...

[freeformschooler]

@Gregor:

: "Reasonable as always. We really exhausted our supply last fight, huh...?"

@Chris:

She sidestepped his mention of jiggling and launched right into future plans.

: "The future...?"

: "Well, I figure after we've been off to kill the wizard, Gregor and I will move to a farm far to the north, saying we're 'tired of all this mercenary stuff.' But really we won't be, or at least I won't be, so I'll start getting violently restless with boring farm life. Like, Gregor will be out in the middle of the night trying to figure out what killed Betsy the Sheep, and he'll find a feral wife chowing down on some bloodied mutton, hissing as he draws near? So in an attempt to help - swoon - he'll tell me to enlist with the local militia. Then I'll get bored with that because there is no real crime and the militia does nothing, so we'll be investigating a recent farmhouse break-in and, whoops, never mind guys, it's just Charlotte, casually murdering hens in one of her dreamwalk slaughterings! Everybody go home, nothing to see here. Gregor will swear he didn't see anything, officer."

: "We're going to lead a good life."

[SeriousConcentrate]

"I guess there has to be a balance of crazy in the world, and with Prixima gone we'd have some big shoes to fill!"

Chris hid a smile with his hand, then went poker-faced.

"If you're going to be slaughtering farm fowl, I do happen to be an assassin. I can teach you some techniques for choking a chicken that would, at the least, impress your husband."

That was pretty naughty for casual conversation, but he wondered if Gregor would even get it. Charlotte very likely would, he thought. Either way, it would be amusing to see their responses.

[Sirus]

@ Charlotte
All Gregor could do was blink. Clearly, she had put a lot of thought into this. Possibly a little too much, but whatever.

: "...sounds good to me."

"If you're going to be slaughtering farm fowl, I do happen to be an assassin. I can teach you some techniques for choking a chicken that would, at the least, impress your husband."

That was odd. Gregor was under the impression that you were supposed to wring a chicken's neck, or decapitate it. Eh, what did he know, he'd never had to slaughter the livestock himself.

[Powder Miner]

Alexander thanked Seyena, taking the money- but then she had a brilliant idea- asking for some money from Anja... and of course Alexander completely missed any scoffing involved.
:"That... is a great idea! Thank you!"
Alexander left, looking for Anja. She'd probably exact a... price. But hey, he was sort of used to the kind of thing by now. kind of.
...Nothing to be done about it though, and it was certainly better than roasting as usual.

[CrimsonEon]

: Olison made his way quietly through the roads after departing from the weaponsmithy, still clenching onto his payment from the Forsaken family. Not a single coin spent, just how he preferred it. Though that will need to change, he thought solemnly, the battles continue to grow tougher day by day.

[Haspen]

@Alexander:

Anja was near her wagon.

"Hey, Alexander. Do you guys need my wagon again or something?"

[SeriousConcentrate]

Chris hadn't expected to stun Charlotte into complete and total silence.

Either she didn't get the joke, or she did and actually thinks I was making a serious offer...

"Well, anyway, all joking aside... I wonder what those two are up to."

Chris gestured with a tilt of his head to Alexander and Anja.

"Although maybe we should at least pretend we're not watching, eavesdropping, and gossiping."

[Sirus]

: "Not sure, really. Anja's pretty obviously interested in Sir Jorinn, but he's pretty thickheaded in more than one way. Chances are he just wants to store something in the wagon and will miss every signal she sends his way."

: "But you're right, we should at least pretend to not be paying attention to them."

[SeriousConcentrate]

"Well, Anja is a friendly woman in general, but you're probably right. I would explain it to him... but that would make it lose all of its charm."

Chris laughed at himself.

"I'm hardly the best person to be giving that kind of advice, anyway! All I have to tell him would be 'don't take less than 300 gp' and things of that nature."

[Haspen]

"Well, Gregor! If you're jealous, I can become interested in you as well. Surely Charlotte will agree it will be more fun." Anja stuck tongue out at Gregor. And then at Chris as well, for some reason.

[freeformschooler]

: "I think we have a word for people like her... but it's best not spoken."

[Sirus]

: "Oh dear. Anja, I'm already taken, thank you." By a woman who could probably obliterate me if I were so foolish as to break her heart... he left unsaid.