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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seravin" data-source="post: 1754437" data-attributes="member: 6783">New Faces in CorleanBeth is a little girl, perhaps seven or eight years old.  She has straight, long blonde hair and bright, sapphire blue eyes that miss little.  When seen, this little girl is normally dressed in a faded brown shirt and trousers; both of which are a little large for her but she somehow makes do.  Smudges of dirt can usually be found on her face and hands.Beth alternates between quiet and attentive to animated and precocious.  When quiet Beth can be nearly invisible, blending into the background while quietly listening to what is going on around her.  As a quiet child, Beth has found that she is safely ignored – unnoticed even.Beth will tell anyone who asks that Corlean is her home, but she is evasive about her family and where she lives.  Given her manner of dress and the odd places that she turns up, the people who talk to Beth assume that she is some sort of orphan.  Most give the girl a concerned look as she walks away but the girl’s manner is such that they do not even think of anything bad happening to her.---At first glance there is nothing remarkable about Semina.  She is a twenty-five year old woman with brown hair and eyes; she is of average height and perhaps a little over average weight indicating that she at least eats well.  At second glance the only memorable attribute of Semina is that she tends to talk with her hands and she has a nervous habit of looking around at everything and everyone; almost like she’s continuously on watch.Newly arrived to Corlean from places south, Semina is looking for work.  She’s been known to fill in at taverns as serving girl, but that’s not the kind of job she’s looking for.  Indeed, the tavern jobs are only a stepping stone, and allows Semina to find the people who are looking for a person with certain skills; skills with locks and such like.Despite her nervous gestures and continuous glancing around the room, Semina does have a manner that suggests her fingers are used to small tools and that she knows how and when to be quiet.  It’s only a matter of time before Semina finds a job worthy of her skills.---Aeva is an older woman, perhaps in her fourth decade or so.  Few people would ask her to confirm her age though, for the wiry woman looks tough despite her ready laughter.  Still, her hair is as equally black as it is gray and the weathered lines in her thin face speak of  years of experience with both life and the weather.No one knew where the black-eyed Aeva comes from, just that she is new in Corlean from somewhere up north and looking to earn a bit of coin.  A few folk whisper that she must be an ex-soldier given the way she walks (nearly swaggers) with a hand that is always close to her belt dagger.  Few people think about it though for ex-soldiers are a silver-a-dozen in Corlean.Ex-soldiers who are looking for a bit of easy work, who can keep quiet, and don’t necessarily care about all the Imperial laws are less easy to find; it just so happens that Aeva easily fits that description.  Aeva wasn’t looking for long before she was approached by certain people looking for her to do a certain job.  Surprisingly, Aeva passed on it.---Beth, Semina, and Aeva all have many things in common; from their ability to blend into the background to their capacity for being able to listen to those around them.  Not surprising really, for Beth, Semina, and Aeva are all guises of Kestral Thendry.After six days of traveling the streets, finding temporary work at a likely-looking tavern, and spending hard-won gold to buy drinks and information, Kestral found what she was looking for.  She brought the information to Kellron when next she spoke to him.“It was a ‘thieves guild’ that attacked your inn; a collection of people in the ‘business’ hired the bandits to make the raid.  The current story is that we have a lot of money and they figured it was hidden at the inn.”  Kestral paused a moment letting it sink in.  “They were looking for another group of thugs to attack the inn.  I told them that the current rumor was that you had hidden the gold elsewhere.”Kellron nodded, tight-lipped.  He wasn’t sure what could be done right now, if anything; but he knew his friends would help.</blockquote>

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