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[Twinwolf]

"Yeah, kinda weird I guess. My brother always said he was jealous, after I figured out how to fly. A permanent home isn't so bad, in my opinion. It's nice knowing there's always somewhere you can be safe." Like a human with wings, huh? "So you've been traveling a lot?" Aurelia asked, a bit curious and now having a chance to ask questions of other bird laguz.

[Chevaleresse]

"If that was enough to be chosen, I would be more than a little worried about the odds of finding our. . . target, here." She almost said "prey," but this girl wasn't exactly her usual sort of target. "No, I'm a hunter, and good enough that humans tend to hire me to find people that make the chase more difficult than usual. Mages, mostly. Figured it was more interesting than hunting deer in the woods, and you humans do so many different things with your food."

[Blade Master Model 42]

"I see. Well, that may very well be useful. I suppose that makes you something of a mercenary yourself. You been doing it long?"

[GiglameshDespair]

"Kawri has - across the skies of her own birth, and those above the walker-lands too. "
"Humans are good to trade with - clever hands to make and build, and stuck with plodding feet and soft skin. Need Kawri to hunt or kill or take for them."
"Gained lots of shines that way."
"Even crows that stay in the birth-skies roam. Kawri's kind, anyway. Kawri's gone further than many, Kawri thinks."

[Kansa]

Vanessa headed up towards Milos, smiling down at him as she walked beside him.

"Hey little guy, you feeling any better?"

[rokubiraijuu]

"I haven't gone as far as Kawri. I grew up in a place that's pretty hard to get out of."

"Then I worked with a mercenary group for some years after that, though that's probably a bit too nice to call them, haha!"

"I got told I had to pack up and leave, that the big boss of Sampia wanted me, and here I am. That was a few months ago, I guess."

[Twinwolf]

"This is... probably the furthest I've been from home."

"That's really cool, both of you. Are you from Yeon? I've never been there, but I was going to visit when I got a chance." She assumed that was what 'birth-skies' meant, for Kawri.

[Gaterhyme]

Instead of giving into her urge to hover protectively around Milos, which she was sure he would find embarrassing at best, Claire fell into step beside him and Vanessa.

"We know the job now, too..." she said, careful to leave enough space for him to respond to Vanessa's question first. "... Do you think we'll have sneaking around to look forward to?"

[rokubiraijuu]

"Yep! A tiny mountain summit aaall the way in the corner of it. I thought it was the whole world, until I saw everything else!"

"And I've still only seen Yeon, for the most part. Maybe some borderlands. This is my first time anywhere else! Wish we got more time to look around Sampia, but getting to see where humans live should be fun, too." He looks curiously at Aurelia again. "You don't seem like much of a fighter. How'd you get roped into this job?"

[Twinwolf]

"It's... well, it's a story. When I first got to this country, I got attacked. I knocked out the guy attacked me, then his group asked me to go with them since they were going to a competition... I figured it was an ok apology for that... and then things kinda spiraled out of control? I guess I'm competent at fighting, if I got picked."

[RedMageCole]

Milos' heart skips a beat when Vanessa talks to him, but upon realizing that it was just her, he calmed down quickly.

"Um... I'm fine... at least right now, I am... the scene in the throne room was really, really scary... and then the king's words kind of... hurt. But... but I feel like that whole experience was... okay. Because... right now, just travelling with them, doesn't seem as bad as... that. But I... am feeling better. Thank you, Vanessa..."

Milos pauses at Claire's question.

"Um... hm." Milos ponders this. "Probably... I've never had to sneak around before, though... I imagine I'd be okay, I'm kind of nimble, but hopefully I'll at least... not be so jumpy by the time we end up having to do something like that..."

[Gaterhyme]

"Mm, it'll be fine, I think..." Claire gave it a bit of thought herself - she had asked the question partially out of curiosity and partially to give Milos an opportunity to turn the conversation off of himself if he was tired of being asked if he was okay. From his response, she was glad to know she'd been overthinking things. "Plenty of us are less sneaky," she said, gathering a handful of her robes in one hand as if to demonstrate, "and we'll have each others' backs."

It was probably mostly her, actually. Vanessa seemed about as nimble as Milos even if sneaking around didn't seem her style.

"... I'm glad you're feeling better, too."

[Chevaleresse]

"A while. Hard to put an exact date on it since I didn't start doing it full-time at any particular point, but I'd say. . . about a decade? Though I'd call myself more of a bounty hunter than a mercenary, if you care about the distinction. Working with a group is new to me."

[Blade Master Model 42]

"You should get used to it pretty fast. Keep your ears open for instructions from the people you're working with, and communicate what you're planning to do to the rest of us. Aside from that its just getting used to the people you're working with."

[rokubiraijuu]

"A competition?" Jupi looks dubious, not at her story, but at the characters in it. "Did they really take you to a competition? You didn't think it might'a been some trap?"

If she could knock out an attacker, though, that seemed enough for her to be here with the rest of them. She'd just be doing more of that anyway. But for all he knew, it might have been pure chance. Seemed odd for someone like the king of Sampia to pick someone who wasn't experienced with combat, or at least investigation.

"I guess as long as you're here in one piece now, it's okay!"