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"I'd like some breakfast," Hitori said to the bartender just as the army got close enough to hear. "I hope it's not too much to ask to eat it in peace," he sighed.

The troops that did get off their horses, left them in care of the stable hands that kept them in the woods at a safe distant. The rest trotted around the bar, and four of which found the stables and went inside. Ren waited on his horse, glaring at the small, rather disgusting building withering away in the shade of the forest. Ren slid off his horse, along with two trusted friends and the mage, who all walked up to the door, and slowly inside. Ren's eyes adjusted to the dim light, and then saw a dragon beast sitting at the bar, with the bartender discussig with it, and whipping glasses. Ren took off his helm, reveling a sleek face and mohogony hair. He went up, the mage closing his eyes and making wild hand movement, which where ignored by the men. "Bartender, does this place serve as an inn, or have it's workers live here?" he asked, the voice firm and thick. The mage was making little raspy noises behind him, and then looked up. "Someone's playing the violin." It said, the three voices echoing in the room.

"'Scuse me" Greff said to Hitori and Kitasu, grinning and giving them a wink. He turned politely to the man adressing him and nodded, saying.
"Why yes, this place is an inn and tavern. We have quite a few rooms available as this is a well travelled road and some travellers prefer to remain outside the city. How many people are in yer party? I can possibly give ye a group discount seeing as there are quite a few of ye."

"Bloody beast..." Greff cursed under his breathe.
"Tell me now, why ye need a whole troop of soldiers to hunt down a girl? I'm sure whatever palace ye come from has enough tasty morsals for ye. I can give ye room and board, but I must ask ye to stay away from my other costumers. Its bad for business."

Kitasu growled slightly when the men entered the tavern, but simply pocketed the key she had been handed and remained silent for a time, only twitching when she heard the Namila outside. She watched Ren climb the stairs out of the corner of her eye. At this time, she grimaced and got up, saying something about going to her room and brushing past the general and his men, ignoring them.

She climbed the stairs, following the impolite man quickly, clear past her room. She did not stop when he opened the door of whatever room he had come to, but instead came within earshot and continued. She grinned at him, coming closer all the while.

If she obtained his attention, she would speak loud enough for him to hear, but lightheartedly. "Good evening, sir! You seem to be in quite a hurry, ignoring the owner of this establishment and blundering up here uninvited, bursting into paying customers' rooms without permission. Is there something the matter or do you go around flinging open doors on a daily basis?" She would stop where she could see him, watching him and waiting for his response. Although she smiled at him amiably, she was in a vaguely alert position, ready to defend herself if she needed to.

The other general, who was a old man ruffled with a fraying gray beard, turned as Sortha moved. A smile cracked on his face and he played the slobbering Cyrano part as he sat down at her table. "Hello there lass." He said, eyeing her up and down, and more in the upper middle.

Ren was smiling wide, now seeing Artemis frozen, holding her violin in mid stroke and eyes wide. However, when he was about to say something witty and cruel like 'this is it.' or 'the end of the line.', the dragon beast interuppted. He shot a venonous gaze to her, shaking his ebony locks about as his head shot in her direction. "Shut up you revolting beast, and do me a favor by hiding your disfigured genes in a room. Now respect breeds higher up in intellegence and be silent and gone!" He ordered, and shot his vicious scowl to the muse, who was now halfway out the window. He ran into the room, and was about to grab her by the shirt when he brought it back. He rememerbed never to do that again. However, he did leave the room, rush down the stairs, attracting the general's attention, and out the door."MAGE! Quickly now! It's at the window! Men, keep that beast silent and the rest block the building and all exits!" He shouted.

((Yes, I tend to cause chaos in my desperate need for action.))

Of course, Ketlin was the first thing on Hitori's mind. He huddled the kid in front of him and took the liberty to sneak into the kitchen. With the general occupied, it was relatively easy to do this before the other man yelled about blocking all the exits. He didn't think the soldiers had not noticed him, however, so he hurried to the back of the kitchen to see if there was an exit.

Kanlay had been outside when the commotion started and was listening at the back door from the kitchen until the solidiers started yelling about the exits. She showed Hitori out quickly and peeked in to see if any one else was going to be gotten out before either a hostage situation or serious fighting started.