"So what is you're overall plan for Neka, I know you would not have invested so much into her with nothing to gain from it." Cassy said to the group. She had somehow turned into a male Gnome and was pretending to be one of the lower ranked assassins today but they could still tell it was her. Probably because she was not making any real attempt to hide the fact that it was her.

"Best case, we get someone who is willing to do dirty work and influence another part of the city. Bring that section under out control and never have to worry about it again. It comes with the benefit of us having a powerful curse mage on retainer constantly, and they always tend to encourage what some might call 'good behavior' among the few that can stand in the same room as them without running away like a child." Tess said so that everyone could be on the same page.

"Worst case, we end up with a rogue that needs to be put down. Tea can do a lot with bones that cursed and we really only have a few healing spells invested in her. All in all, not that great a loss if we're being honest. A bit of a push her or there and we can guide her path of destruction where ever we want it to go." Smithy said, listing off the negatives that could come of making a powerful curse mage that took on any curse or hex as a natural part of her body.

"It's really a win-win for us, we either get a powerful allie to work with or a powerful weapon to use for a very short amount of time. It really does not take very much at all to get stuff done with something like that at your disposal. We just need to fire and forget for a little while. Clean up the mess and collect the reward." Drassisa said showing that while she was the kindest of the lot she was equally as ruthless as the rest.

At the end of the day, while she would want the gril to survive and even thrive in her new life, Drassisa valued the life of her brother and her friends more then the girl she took pity on. That is not to say that she hated or even disliked Neka, just that she knew how the world really worked and was not about to throw away the life of her brother for a stranger. She would feel terrible about it for sometime afterword's but she would still do it.

"What are our chances that she is not just saying whatever she needs to in order to get out of here alive. That will determine how things go moving forwards at any rate. We just need to see how she reacts once she is back in the city." Sasha said while thinking on the future. "The only problem I see is that if she just runs off and does her own thing then everyone will know that we just made a massive power grab and failed miserably. We are just skirting around the edges as it is, we do not need more enemies coming after our heads right now."

It was normally her job to keep everyone both alive and kicking so she made sure to do just that. She had to ask the hard questions and constantly found herself talking under her breath. She had stopped doing so out loud at some point because for all she liked Teamasa the girl had a tendency to say whatever she was thinking and it just got to embarrassing to keep doing it after a while. She hadn't even realized she had stopped until someone heard her talking under her breath and asked her what she had said.

It hadn't been easy to switch her mode of thinking to worry about other people and not just her self but sense she had brought them all together and started the party, what choice did she have. Her mother had always told her to take responsibility for the consequences of her decisions. She had been taught that the decisions she made would affect both herself and others so she should never make them lightly.

Her father had just taught her that at the end of the day she should make the decision that she could live with. The decision that she would be OK dying with if it came to that. He wanted her to know that right and wrong were just the labels that people had put on things that benefited everyone at large. They were decided by people. Not bad guys, just ignorant stupid people. Those that only had the best of intentions and only wanted what was best for everyone.

"Are you ready to start learning magic? I can teach you the basics of how things are done but in the end you will have to experiment and learn on your own. So are you ready to begin?" Tea asked her new student Neka after she had recovered from her ordeal.

It was not easy for her to get all those curses working together like they were. Bounded into her very bones and filling her flesh and blood. It had takes some adjustments for her soul to catch up with what was going on. The changes had left her unconscious for the better part of a week but now the results were showing clearly. She would make a great curse mage that was for sure.

"Please teach me everything that you can. I was wondering thought, when will my shop be ready and how do I keep it? Is that the right way to say that, I think it is anyway. Might as well learn how to do these things now then later." Neka asked with a look of excitement on her face.

"We have already sent message spells to a contact of ours to start getting things set up discreetly, we don't want to tip our hands to early after all. In the end it will take quite a while to get the place enchanted like it is required to be so we have time for you to learn the basics that is for sure." Tea responded to her student with a smile.

"What do you mean required?"

"There are laws on what a curse mage must do before any building they are in is considered safe for those around them. If you do not meet these requirements then you are not considered eligible to start working with anything over dispelling a curse some fool got by offending the wrong old woman." Tea explained realizing for the first time just how much she would have to teach the girl. It was no wonder that everyone else had refused on the bounds that they couldn't teach her the magic she needed to learn. It was a valid reason to be sure but she was not going to admit that to their faces anytime soon.