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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 6461711" data-attributes="member: 4936">Nia returns the captain's frank assessment with an enigmatic smile. Katerina was not in a position to know just how calculated Nia's appearance here was; how it was not simply a matter of random happenstance but the culmination of months of work on her part. It was natural, perhaps, that in a natural attempt to find order in apparent chaos she would attribute it to destiny or providence. That was fine by Nia. She only benefitted from the otherworldly aura of seeming to be a 'chosen one.'And as for secrets? That almost made her laugh. Of course she had secrets. She was a magician, and magic was precious little other than secrets. Without secrets magic wasn't much more than a pistol at your side, or a jerkin of chainmail or an array of tricks. Its' true power was never what it COULD do, but in what people thought it MIGHT do. It functioned best when no one else was quite sure what it was.With Katerina now overseeing the armwrestling, Nia's attention wandered from it for a moment. Was it time, perhaps, to send word to her cohort in all this? He might appreciate some advance warning, so they didn't catch him in an awkward moment. Yes.She wove through the crowd to the door of the inn and went just outside to scan the street for some likely young lad. On spying a passing ragamuffin, she went to his side, holding up a coin so as not to scare him away. To him she said, "A copper to take a message. Come back to me here and tell me to my face it's done, and you'll get anudda. Go to da old house dere on da hill just outside of town. Knock on de door and say aloud dat Steeleyes is bringin' a crew soon so be ready. Undahstand? Steeleyes is bringin' a crew, so be ready."The coin went into the urchin's hand. "Off wit' you now."</blockquote>

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