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Glitter Brush
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"Then I guess we're off to the wardhouse." Strela steps away from the bar. She nearly trips over the diminutivie Sashika, who skitters apologetically out of the way.
"No tip?" Tarvid calls.
"Here's one," Bruco says, following Strela. "Don't tell a man to watch his woman's mouth next time."
"What a fuckin' punk." Bruco is scratching Sashika's head to calm himself down as they head for the wardhouse. "You couldn'ta said something?"
"Coin is a universal language," Strela says. "Its lack is doubly so."
"I guess."
"It hadn't occured to me you wouldn't be used to blocking that kind of thing out," Strela says, then, suddenly conscious of keeping the kayfabe up for Sashika, adds: "Uhhh we're a little more egalitarian in the Tribelands."
"Naut is a morass in ways beyond physical, my friends. You need not tell Sashika this. They are-- set. In lizardly ways." Sashika tugs on Bruco's pant leg. "Behind ear, Mistress?"
Bruco readjusts and Sashika's leathers squeak as her tail wags rapidly. "Yessss," she purrs.
"You're going to need to gird yourself, I think," Strela says. "For this Rolastus customer."
"He better watch his tongue," Bruco hisses. "Before a cat gets it."
Strela tries to hide how amused she is by Bruco's unorthodox act of doubleback chivalry. "Would you happen to have a potion for this, Sashika?" she asks. "Something to jog our man's memory or give him some clarity?"
"Have you seen my shelves, milord? Sashika has a potion for this." She twists her head to get Bruco's hand behind her other ear. "A draught I can brew to banish the uncertainty from Rolastus' mind, and bring him the focus he lacks. Under such influence his mind would discern the true threat from the phantasm... but such a thing he would never willingly take from a foreign harlot in tight pants." She frowns. "Rolastus and Sashika are not on the best of terms."
A]] We'll make do without. I imagine we can get what we need out of him regardless.
B]] Then we'll just have to trick him into drinking it somehow, won't we?
C]] He'll drink it. Strela and I have a way of convincing people.
D]] This calls for an invocation instead, then:
E]] __________
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