Larellon looked up when the shadow of the new arrival crossed the threshold of his bivouac. He completed the pass of the whetstone along the edge of his hunting blade before speaking however.
“Rest a while if you please, or pass along if you will. I am Larellon of the Windsigh Rovers.”
“Hi!” Came the cheery response. The Moon Elf sighed and put his tools down.
“Good morning Cathedrin, what are you after?” Larellon disguised his irritation with the Summer Elf and reached for a bottle of spirits in the open pack beside him.
“Morning Larellon! I’m off to see Blind Betty up in the caves; I’m already late and the heavies she sent said she was threatening to cut bits of me off if I didn’t go right now, so I was wandering along and got distracted by a tentacle beast in the pond out the back of that old log shaped like a crocodile – and fun though that was for a while I did think I’d rather not lose anything I might miss later -”
“Do you ever breathe, Cathedrin?” He interrupted her characteristic babbling. Like many of her type, Cathedrin was flighty in mind, mannerism, and concentration. Some found it endearing, at least until she’d relieved them of their wallet, possessions, or will to live.
“Hmm? Oh yes.” She grinned. “Anyway I was just wondering – I’ve never met her before, and I know you’re through here on patrol quite often, which -” she stopped as Larellon raised an eyebrow. “Right, yes, anyway – what’s she like?”
Larellon considered the question a moment and chose his words carefully.
“She’s okay, for a human, not someone who likes being kept waiting, probably not someone you want to annoy.”
“Oh, okay! Thanks then! See you in a bit, though don’t think I haven’t seen that bottle of – no, okay, on the way back then, my that’s a shiny knife!”
Larellon refrained from rolling his eyes, and instead went back to preparing his blades for use. His own briefing with Blind Betty had been productive.
After some time, he heard the whisper-scuffle of Cathedrin’s hurried return.
“I thought you said she was human!”
“She is.”
“No she isn’t, she’s got at least six arms and I think she had fangs! She threw a knife at me!”
“Hmm. I thought she was human. She’s not an elf anyway. Did she give you a job?”
“Yes! And you knew about it already! I’m to come with you and steal something called a Star Tear. She threatened to cut my ear tips off!”
“Well she did ask for you a year ago. So, are you ready? I’ve got your bag ready, and some spare candy.”
“Yay! This is going to be the best!”