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Character(s): Balthier, Fran, and Rishfee
Content: After this post, Balthier tends to his wound and tries to get some answers from Rishfee as to what just happened there.
Setting: One of the Actua Ares in the city where Fran and Balthier have decided to stay
Time: Late Evening/Morning after the above thread.
Warnings: Nothing I can think of at the moment.

Balthier washed the last of the dried blood from his arm and set the washcloth aside, giving the formerly wounded area another once-over. A Cure spell had taken care of the nastly little cuts, but the area was still a bit tender, and he winced as he pressed against it experimentally. Really, he should have been expecting that to happen, given how much of a literal pain cleaning the blood off had been. He offered a glance to the bloodied shirt, now hanging over the side of the nearby bathtub. Mending the tears hopefully wouldn't be too difficult, but getting the blood out... He wasn't even sure it was possible by this point. A shame. He liked that one.

He stepped out of the bathroom, grabbing one of the shirts he had purchased within the city sometime before and put his arms through the sleeves. As he buttoned up his shirt, he thanked the fact that he had been prepared for such an event. It never seemed to fail that some manner of beast would find its way to his path, and it was inevitable that his clothes would fall victim to the natural weapons at its disposal.

The last button fastened, Balthier stepped out of the bedroom, looking down at Rishfee, who he had set on the couch. The bed probably would have been better, but Balthier preferred a bit of privacy for changing as he did before. He would have to thank Fran sometime for asking no questions about this. Not that she ever did, but Balthier was hardly sure where to begin explaining it, himself.

The sky pirate took a seat in one of the nearby chairs, reclining a little as he waited for the youth to wake up. Hopefully he hadn't hit him too hard.

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As long as it answered the questions, Fran would have called the explanation sufficient. What Rishfee gave them was a good deal more than that. It certainly wasn't uninteresting, not by a long shot, but it was certainly beyond what she'd been expecting. Even if she did - much as Balthier did - expect that some facts had been left out. People who had tendencies to attract spies rarely gave the whole truth.

But what had been given was plenty to work with, regardless. He was a hume with a goal, and more so, one looking for a woman. Not entirely uncommon in wars and in their line of work. That someone considered this woman important enough to poison someone on her trail was less so.

A shame there was little way to tell if the woman would show here.

"You would not want the abilities of a Heartless," she agreed. "They are mindless beings. Not something one would care to take."

As for the fact that he could turn into monsters at all, that was beyond interesting, although few would have been able to tell her thoughts on the matter. Ivalice had no such people, no ways to change ones own form outside of tales or the addition of nethicite, and the latter was rarely worth the effort to say nothing of the fact that few (perhaps 'none' in wake of more recent events) knew how to even proceed there.

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