"Not as yet," Fang said, and leaned back in her chair with her arms folded.
She gave off the aura of a bodyguard. Her words came out relaxed, but she held herself bow-taut in her chair, arms and legs crossed, not at all hiding the fact that she was ready to go at any moment even if she didn't appear to be armed at a glance.
She was the newest member of Clan Ila, new enough that her initial didn't feature in their clan name, unlike the others. Isa, Lea, Aerith. Ila. There was no F for Fang. But that didn't matter. They'd accepted her all the same, taken in a strange woman without a License, thoroughly foreign and definitely a fish out of temporal water. Maybe it was because two of the three of them were somehow stranger than her, maybe it wasn't. Either way, they'd been good to her and she took her place with them seriously.
This man, with his funny accent and his glasses and his open attempt at collected diplomacy didn't frighten her, but the big bastard he had with him looked as ready for things to deteriorate as she did. She didn't think they would, but it was always a risk and it was worth being ready.
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She gave off the aura of a bodyguard. Her words came out relaxed, but she held herself bow-taut in her chair, arms and legs crossed, not at all hiding the fact that she was ready to go at any moment even if she didn't appear to be armed at a glance.
She was the newest member of Clan Ila, new enough that her initial didn't feature in their clan name, unlike the others. Isa, Lea, Aerith. Ila. There was no F for Fang. But that didn't matter. They'd accepted her all the same, taken in a strange woman without a License, thoroughly foreign and definitely a fish out of temporal water. Maybe it was because two of the three of them were somehow stranger than her, maybe it wasn't. Either way, they'd been good to her and she took her place with them seriously.
This man, with his funny accent and his glasses and his open attempt at collected diplomacy didn't frighten her, but the big bastard he had with him looked as ready for things to deteriorate as she did. She didn't think they would, but it was always a risk and it was worth being ready.
"Care to enlighten us?"