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A young woman wrapped in red sits down near the old shack of a house. Beside her there were bottles and jars of various shapes and sizes all filled with an unusual darkness. Charitna Valentina sat down half admiring her handiwork and half preparing her weapons for her first serious adventure. The pay wouldn't be great but Charitina believed that it was worth her time. She intended to prove her value to the residents of this small town.

The red clothed woman took out her stellein tracing the patterns back over her weapons again to ensure the rune was renewed and ready for instant use. One on her clothing. Nine on her bottles and jars. One on her shoes. One on her sword and finally one on her trump weapon. Her stick.

Even just looking at it the house was eerie to her. It felt like someone might come outside and shout at her for sitting around outside lounging about. She couldn't bear the thought of someone being angry with her when she was only trying to do good. Instinctively she stood up and took her things a little further away from the old hovel. She couldn't imagine anyone could live there. So dirty and in such disrepair. If her mother saw it she could imagine her having a fit. A dirty place like that she was sure to become quite ill and a woman without her strength is no use to her family.

Sitting now comfortably further away she began to eat. A roll she'd made before coming. Animals bits make a woman stronger she'd always said. Eating the hearts of animals for their strength had really always made her feel a bit faint so her bacon and egg sandwich was something of a secret she intended to keep. Food closer to the capital was much tastier than the sometimes too raw food she was used to. She continued to wolf down her sandwich waiting for the rest of her group. There were supposed to be at least three more.

((Basics to start us off. I've got a document with narration posts written up which I'll use as we progress.))

She'd been enjoying the peace out here even if the area wasn't particularly inviting but almost within moments of one of them appearing they'd all managed to appear at more or less the same time. The mission was sparse on details so it was slightly unusual that they all turned up around the same time but Charitina decided to brush this off as mere coincidence (the alternative being harder to countenance) and decided to make nothing of it. A strange creature stood before her now with long ears and an extremely large weapon perhaps a club of some sort. She decided to answer her as the question wasn't too probing though she would rather be rid of the small thing quickly.

"An egg sandwich. Are you with us?" Charitina responded to the questioning curtly before standing up and then wolfing down the rest of her sandwich. Charitina could not abide the idea of anyone stealing her food and she didn't want to have this strange creature in her personal space. She moved quickly before anyone could reasonably react to take all her bottles and stashed them away within her cloak taking care that she could easily find them. Even if they were experienced fighters her equipment would be dangerous to someone who didn't properly know how to use it.

Two more women approached. One on foot and one who had been on a tree branch. Was it in vogue to travel through the trees in human settlements? Perhaps it might be wise in future then to travel through the trees. It certainly made them harder to spot but Charitina in her red garb might make herself more easily spotted. It bared investigation. As to the women themselves it was clear that one must be significantly stronger than the other. The one who'd introduced herself as Danielle was so obscenely full of figure her physical might must be stronger and yet the woman who had not given her name was covered in multiple runes. The distance was too great to really work out based on a look what they might be for (and especially so without some study) but Charitina couldn't fully mask her admiration for either of them.

She walked over impatiently ignoring the goblin who she was trying her best to be a reasonable though not too obviously uncomfortable distance from she moved quickly and clutched Danielle's hands in her own perhaps being too overbearing herself. "It's lovely to meet you both. Charitina Valentina. Let's do our best." Charitina could not hide her own preference for women with fuller figures. To her they always seemed to be more trustworthy though if Charitina considered it she'd probably have realised there was no real correlation between these things.

She moved swiftly again now clutching Dezaira's hands before she had a chance to really react or say anything.

"I don't think you introduced yourself?" She said expectantly before cutting Dezaira off so she wouldn't have a chance to say anything at all. "It'll be an honour to work with you. Your work is quite impressive." She said peeking over and trying to admire (and also steal) her handiwork. The runes were completely foreign to her however the kind of patterns she would never use herself. They drew on a completely different basis that she wasn't skilled enough to analyse in secret. Taking care to not make it too obvious after a few brief glances she stared Deziara right in the eye with an awkward smile. She could start to feel her face heating up and deciding she didn't want to make a fool of herself deftly moved to turn around where nobody could see her expression.

"Anyway. Ready when you're ready!"