#gemshroud

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Summon daggers darted though the air. Taking out enemy after enemy. Truly this was a practiced dance he had with his partner. He always kept an eye on him, careful not to let and enemy get too close to getting his human companion. Though that did mean he was moving trying to stay away and fight things one on one.

"Artemis, its just me and you. You don't have to hide the truth. You have to have kissed someone before."

He knew that because he had kissed him and now he needed more information. How had he gone his whole life and not kissed anyone?

         The  half  thri-kreen  considered  for  a  couple  of  seconds,        obviously  missing  the  mean  note  which  came  so  easy  whenever  Entreri  faced  the  most  innocent  of  questions.  A  flutter  of  thin  antennas,  Cricket  was  truly  putting  much  thought  into  the  counter  query.

       ❝  Well,  no. ❞     Dry  as  a  desert.  Self-explanatory,  the  druid  can't  expect  every  human  to  know  the  difference  between  bug   &   annelid.  Still,  the  man  dodged  Crickets  question,  which  irritated  him  in  the  slightest.

       ❝  That  is  why  I  wondered.  Would  you  like  me  if  I  was  a  worm   ?   Earthworm  or  .  .  .  flatworm,  pinworm  .  .  . ❞     

       ❝  SEEEEEEEELL   ?  ?  !    Are  you  crazy   ?  ?  ? ❞      Kiki  clutched  her  pearls   —   He  must  be  insane   !   (  He  was  insane,  not  the  other  way  around  )  .  Why  oh  WHY  would  she  ever  want  to  .  .  .  Nononononnonononoonooooo,  such  precious  organs  would  only  go  to  waste  at the  black  market.  Leave  it  in  her  CAPABLE  hands.

       ❝  No,  I  would  pickle  it  up.  Plain   &   simple  ;  so  you  could  look  at  it  from  all  sides  aaaanytime  you  want  to.  Promise  it  will  not  hurt.  I  did  this  before. ❞       Many  times  before,  to  everyone's  misfortune.

The tiefling wanted to mock him but he thought better than to do that. He had of course heard about this man from the others in the guild. Enough that he would exercise caution. He settled on just sighing and leaning his back against the wall. Though it wouldn't be the first or last time a human disliked him so it didn't bother him to much.

Shadowheart had been the first to put the idea into her head, but the more Eve thought about it, the more she agreed with it. They would all divulge their secrets when they felt it was time and not a moment before. At the same time, his words amused her--probably more than they should.

"I mean...I think we all need to trust each other to a certain extent," she admitted with a little shrug of her own. Otherwise, what would this adventure get them but perhaps dead before they began it? "I just think that as far as sharing our life stories, perhaps we should wait."

Truth be told she was probably more curious than the rest of them were, but she knew that no one really wanted to talk about it. There were things she wanted to leave hidden too, but she also knew that if she didn't put faith in them, then they were likely to fail. It was a fine line to be walked upon, but they were all going to have to take the leap of faith and tread upon in.