"You never really stop talking do you?" Drassisa said to her new friend the cursed mage. She had, after opening up to her newfound friends, started talking and never really seemed to stop. Not that it was a bad thing, quite the opposite. She just wanted a moment of peace and quiet for just the smallest amount of time.

"While it is true that I could stop talking at any point in time I choose not to. If you had gone half as long as I have without talking to any living soul then you would want to talk the ears off of anyone you came across." Neka said with a rather wide grin. She liked messing with people and would go out of her way to so so as much as possible.

They had a back and forth the two of them. One of them had saved the other and that made a debt of gratitude between them. Neka was a lot of things but a deadbeat was certainly not one of them. She would pay back this debt and make sure that they would never regret it. How could she do anything less for the people that not only saved her life from the disease that was killing her but also gave her the opportunity of a lifetime?

On the other hand, Drassisa was quite fond of her new friend. Not everyone would have had the strength to crawl out of the despair she had gone through. Not everyone could have dared to stand up like she did, at least not as quickly as she had managed to do it at any rate. It was not easy for her to save the girl's life, no matter what she said to the others it had really been touch and go there for far too long. She had faded into and out of existence more times than the Dark Elf could count at the very least.

"I swear that you two never stop, do you? It is like trying to herd cats while drunk for me to just sit here and wait you out." Embrda said, looking his sister straight in the eye. He knew her better than anyone in the world and for him at least, this was just too sweet to ignore. It was clear to him and probably anyone else that knew her for more than a year that his sister really wanted to cut loose and start messing with her mind.

Call it a flaw in her character but the girl could not help but mess with people. Half of their interactions with the others they had grown up around had been her getting them to dance just the way she wanted them to. It was not hard for her to get people to come together or break apart for her. Still, this girl is her patient and she would never do anything to bring harm to her patients. She was kind of moral like that, also completely immoral in many other ways, that was for sure.

He did kind of wonder what she would do with the poor girl when that care wore off. It would not and could not last forever so eventually he knew his sister was going to start messing with her. He just hoped that she did not try to throw them together this time. He never wanted to make his sister mad because she was known for being very vindictive with those foolish enough to do so.

He rather did not want to wake up twice in a single lifetime covered in bugs from head to toe because he interfered with her jolly good time was more than anyone should ever have to go through it. Though she was often the kindest person around for a hundred miles and she had no temper to speak of, none what so ever. She was great at getting even with people and that was before she became a warlock of the lady of bargains.

He shuddered to think of what she could get away with now. He was a scrupulous thief but even he had some sense of when enough was enough. His sister did not. She would keep going until whoever she was competing with gave in or quit fighting altogether. Nothing but nothing short of that would stop her from making you submit. It was her fatal flaw, the thing that would one day lead his sister to an early grave, he knew this very well. It was simply much to a part of her personality to change without changing who she was and so he had left it alone.

"OK it is official, we are going to set up some jump gates to get around easier. Maybe even market them for cash but we are going to do it." Tea said, having long since grown tired of traveling by undead carriage. Mostly because she had to stay awake or at least only lightly sleep for the entire journey for the damn undead horses to work properly.

"Or you could just see about making some golems so you can sleep as everyone else does, it would not be all that hard to make a bone golem, just need to get a core for it to work properly." Neka said offhandedly without putting too much thought into her statement.

"..."

"I hate you!" Tea responded having missed that bit of genius. She would later claim that she had already thought of it and was just trying to get her apprentice to think on her feet as a test but no one would really believe her. She did not expect them to either, just that they would never bring it up again.

OR ELSE!

"I will do it for the return trip." She said having clearly started the day on the wrong side of the bed. It did not help matters that the assassin she fancied had turned out to be a living shadow. Her tall, dark, and handsome had turned out to just be tall and dark. What a letdown.

Sasha watched her friends as they traveled along the road at speeds best described as terrifying. She would hate for someone to get trampled underfoot that was for sure. They would probably die, shattered bones across their entire body would also be reasonable.

It was at this point that she started thinking about flying carpets and the like. Something to use in cases of emergency and they needed to get far away fast. She would make a mental note of it.

Back in the city work was still underway on preparing the city for a cursed mage the likes of which it had never seen before. They would have to clear the houses near the gate they were going to come through so that no one with weakened bodies would die of her presence. It was the only way to be sure and not even the most extreme of countermeasures that were being taken.

They were also going to be placing so many warding spells around and on the girl that she would have trouble walking in a straight line from the sheer weight of them. They had also given everyone potions of fortitude to take when the time came. Expensive as it might be the benefits of having a powerful cursed mage would be immeasurable. Least of all to the city would be that just having her there would deter most monsters with any sense of preservation from attacking the grounds for they would not want to die.