12. Foundry Tavern:

[Cin-Ezra Oovalli]

"Now, do you want to know how to get to the Town Hall of not?"

"Of course wise one.  I graciously accept whatever schooling you have to offer."

Kaska squints slightly at the woman, then turns and walks after the others, shrugging internally. The woman seems to be constitutionally unable to identify herself or answer a simple question.

The rudeness of this one seems to know no limits, Cin thinks while the woman walks away.  First she offers directions.  Then after I accept, she turns and walks away.  Cin looks up at the sky and shakes her head at the ridiculousness of what just occurred.  But she recognized her kind.  She was of the same barbarian stock as ones who enslaved her and slaughtered her parents.  It's no wonder that manners escaped the woman.

Cin listens and when the woman describes her as moving like a vulture she can't help but smile slightly.  Her movement had never been described as vulture-like before.  An interesting description from someone so jumpy and confrontational.  One might describe her as a cornered rat.  But while Cin was a slave, she had learned patience in the face of ignorance and an uncanny intuition to which battles needed to be fought and which could wait for another day.  So Cin calmly accepts the woman's scolding and once she's finished, Cin bows deeply at the waist while simultaneously stretching her arms out wide in surrender.  "Of course wise one.  I graciously accept whatever schooling you have to offer."  There was no hint of sarcasm or disrespect hidden in her words.

Taijun remembers a lesson from his master as he watches events unfold. "The tree stands tall until the wind blows it down, the reed beside it bends with the wind and remains." He had a gift for remembering the words of his master.

"You have a strange accent I have not heard before. Will you allow me to walk with you to the town hall, since we all have interests there?"

If Taijun sees her pistol/pistols he will ask Cin-Ezra about them and explain his backstory if asked.

"Of course," Cin replies. "It is good to have polite company.  My name is Cin..."  While they talk, he notices that a pistol hangs lazily from her left hip.  She didn't seem to be making any real attempt to conceal the weapon.  Likely this was a kind of warning to the regular riff-raff to approach at your own risk.  When he asks her about the pistol she replies, "Was taught how to use this while being a girl.  Weapon fell into my... ahh... possession[?] after I escaped capture from slavers."  Then quickly changing the subject she asks, "What about you?  Why you here in town?"

[OoC: In Cin's background I said that Cin's common isn't that great.  So I'm going to use the [?] as a way of saying in text that she is having trouble with a word or asking if she is using a word correctly.