#tenaciouswarriorxx

She looked at the cookies with concern. They were lumpy and misshapen, but then again she put little stock in appearances. A little overdone on the bottom, a little underdone on the top. They'd probably be “okay” but she'd have to figure out how she managed to do that. And they were... redder than she expected. Why was that...? She cautiously grabbed one and took a bite.

And that's when it all went downhill. She didn't expect it to be easy. No, nothing's ever easy, is it? It was Li's first time doing this alone, after all. But Twelve above, she didn't expect it to be this bad.

Her face contorted as she chewed the “cookie.” What is this taste...? Suddenly it hit her, and her eyes went wide before she spat the cookie out right then and there. Dragon pepper. Li had, somehow, mistaken crushed dragon pepper for cinnamon.

(Hello, hello! Thank you for the ask friend…or foe?! :3c)

“I beg your pardon?”

Ahlis regarded the miqo’te woman with a look that spoke immediately of distrust. She’s never see her before, and who exactly had been looking for her?

Behind Ahlis was a series of charred corpses–sahagin ones, at that–of the beastmen that had encroached too far upon Lominsan territory. And while she may have not been given a task from any of the Maelstrom or Yellowjackets of the city…Ahlis disliked the fishy buggers enough to where she often used them as target practice. When she wasn’t busy with anything else, of course.