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<blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 4859512" data-attributes="member: 21938"><p><span style="color: Wheat">"Oh, yes, of course,"</span> says the young woman. She follows meekly behind and waits quietly whilst the staff of the Quill bring you food and drink. Finally, when addressed again, she speaks up.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Wheat">"Well... I don't know if you do such things, see, but I'm real worried like, and I thought, well, no harm in askin' and all that, so..."</span> she takes a deep breath. <span style="color: Wheat">"It's my cousin, see? Well, sort of half-cousin really, but we was good friends when we was girls only her mother didn't like her seeing me how as we're the poor 'alf of the family and all, and 'er mother is a right one who don't let 'er out much anyways, but, see, my cousin Ceceli, she got married and all, and it were really good, only... well, did you hear of the Swan Street Slicer? Well, there was some murders up here in the Heights, right? Someone was killing people, mostly rich folk but not all. Got six of them in the end, I think. Anyway, they caught the murderer, a halfling, trying to get into my cousin Ceceli's house, well, her mother's house, but you know what I mean. He'd killed 'er poor husband not long before, the Guard reckoned he was comin' back to finish the job, get my cousin and my aunt, like. Only they caught 'im first a-'cos my cousin raised the alarm. Only now I 'ear he's escaped again and I'm a-scared he'll try it again and I'm looking for someone to be, like, her bodyguard or summat."</span></p><p></p><p>A bit flustered, she turns to Bael. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: Wheat">"Pay, oh, of course." </span>Her hand goes to the small purse hanging from her belt. <span style="color: Wheat">"How much does this sort o' thing usually cost?"</span></p><p></p><p>[SBLOCK=Bael]</p><p>You've heard of the Swan Street Slicer - the Acadamae guard was put on alert about five months ago since he was operating in your neighbourhood. You'd also heard that a mad halfling had been captured, in the house of a minor noble called Lady Dromdal, but nothing about his escape.</p><p></p><p>Also, this woman's accent slips a bit sometimes, as if she's better educated than she's trying to sound.</p><p>[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr Simon, post: 4859512, member: 21938"] [COLOR="Wheat"]"Oh, yes, of course,"[/COLOR] says the young woman. She follows meekly behind and waits quietly whilst the staff of the Quill bring you food and drink. Finally, when addressed again, she speaks up. [COLOR="Wheat"]"Well... I don't know if you do such things, see, but I'm real worried like, and I thought, well, no harm in askin' and all that, so..."[/COLOR] she takes a deep breath. [COLOR="Wheat"]"It's my cousin, see? Well, sort of half-cousin really, but we was good friends when we was girls only her mother didn't like her seeing me how as we're the poor 'alf of the family and all, and 'er mother is a right one who don't let 'er out much anyways, but, see, my cousin Ceceli, she got married and all, and it were really good, only... well, did you hear of the Swan Street Slicer? Well, there was some murders up here in the Heights, right? Someone was killing people, mostly rich folk but not all. Got six of them in the end, I think. Anyway, they caught the murderer, a halfling, trying to get into my cousin Ceceli's house, well, her mother's house, but you know what I mean. He'd killed 'er poor husband not long before, the Guard reckoned he was comin' back to finish the job, get my cousin and my aunt, like. Only they caught 'im first a-'cos my cousin raised the alarm. Only now I 'ear he's escaped again and I'm a-scared he'll try it again and I'm looking for someone to be, like, her bodyguard or summat."[/COLOR] A bit flustered, she turns to Bael. [COLOR="Wheat"]"Pay, oh, of course." [/COLOR]Her hand goes to the small purse hanging from her belt. [COLOR="Wheat"]"How much does this sort o' thing usually cost?"[/COLOR] [SBLOCK=Bael] You've heard of the Swan Street Slicer - the Acadamae guard was put on alert about five months ago since he was operating in your neighbourhood. You'd also heard that a mad halfling had been captured, in the house of a minor noble called Lady Dromdal, but nothing about his escape. Also, this woman's accent slips a bit sometimes, as if she's better educated than she's trying to sound. [/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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