Health Inspectors at the Seafood Buffet

The next area tapered down so suddenly, Eve slid and fell down into an open chamber. She couldn't tell what this organ even was, not that she could tell what any of the other ones were.

"This is probably some big conspiracy." she finally said, mimicking Julius. "First they drag us through that death trap of a cavern, and now there's a Big Octo that's gonna eat me after I've already been eaten."

She looked across the trap-like room to the massive Octorok-esque creature. Its sagging, dismal eyes reflecting the despair it probably was experiencing being trapped down here for so long with no food or much of anything at all. It wasn't likely the creature would ever escape at his size, either. The creature sighed loudly.

"Yolo no eat in many time. You is food?" the creature bellowed at her.

Oh, that's right, Eve could understand this thing. She wasn't sure what to do at first. She risked being swallowed if that thing charged her. She grinned nervously and sweated profusely as Julius appeared behind her. Eve's grin seemed to provokes something from the Big Octo.

"You not is food? Yolo not eat you, then. He like girl smile." he said in his bestial language. "Perhaps you solve Yolo's riddles, or beat him in rap battle? It decide whether you food or not."

Knowing full well Julius couldn't understand this Big Octo's pleas for a diplomatic solution, Eve figured she would just be honest with Yolo. There was no point in helping this guy, and Eve wasn't going to try to help him in the first place. Especially when he made it pretty clear she was definitely food to this thing. Although she doubted something of his size would survive swallowing her whole, as all of her poisonous blood would be ingested.

"Hahaha, I'm not like other people. I'm going to kill you. If you think riddles will work on me, you're going to have a shitty time. Sometimes you have to take risks in battle, Yolo!" she yelled at the corpulent monster.

Julius had the initiative here, of course. But the monster wasn't going to die quietly either. The Big Octo began to build up steam and ready a charge.

This Octorok was probably literally the fattest thing he had ever lain eyes on. And he knew quite a few spoiled animals in Hyrule Castle Town. But it didn't matter; for whatever reason (probably that it hadn't eaten in a very long time), after standing basically still for a period of time, and groaning a bunch of strange noises that he didn't bother to process, he immediately started attempting to build up some steam for some kind of charge.

But, in his heart, Julius knew the creature was far too fat to effectively get any kind of charge going. "So, what do you think the most effective plan of attack here is? Any attack we try on him is liable to just bounce straight off the blubber he's got under his hide." He was legitimately unconcerned about the giant Octorok. In fact, it seemed almost comical to him. "I guess that fish should learn to chew his food, hm?" He asked his companion, very clearly being as nonchalant about the entire situation as possible. In fact, Julius could probably wrestle it down if it were absolutely necessary, but... What exactly could it do to them? Walk into them at a very slow pace until it got tired?

And then, with all the force of a freight train, Julius abruptly got slammed into the fleshy wall of Jabu's organ. If not for how mushy it was, he would probably he been a lot worse for wear than he really was.

He peeled off the wall, hitting the floor with some kind of squish. A ringing was in his ears and his head... kind of hurt. It wasn't a concussion, and he really doubted that anything was broken, but... "By Din and by Nayru, that hurt. Be careful around this thing, Eve." He drew his sword and, in his opposite hand, got his boomerang from his Adventure Pouch with some struggle. "I'm going to try and stun it, and then we both go in for an attack." He was certain that his plan would work to some degree.

He brought his hand back, giving the boomerang a mean throw as its fiery vortex bounced into the Octorok's hide. Apart from a minor singe, it looked like there had really been no effect. "Got any ideas?" He asked of his companion. For the time being, he was out of them.

Eve didn't need to be told twice, she dodged and weaved what had become a sudden confrontation with Julius. Fist Eyes sprung out and dunked onto the towering Octo. While he was furiously skidding across the floor, he teetered a bit when hit. It still wasn't enough, somehow. Eve wasn't sure how all her upgrades weren't enough. It was worth a few more shots, maybe this guy had weak points.

He was going awfully fast, and Eve didn't notice at first there was some sort of marking on his back. Eve smashed him up against the wall in a rolling motion. The marking became completely exposed. She jabbed at it just once with one of the eye fists and the Octo squealed and reeled. His body perked up and he turned a deeper shade of red. Now that they knew his weak spot, the enraged Octo became only more and more defensive. He hustled to another side of the room and started charging something up.

Eve ran out of breath, needing to stop just to see where she was and what she was doing. The arms snapped back into her eyes and she let a drool drop slip as she caught her breath and looked around her shoulder, wide-eyed. The Big Octo was nearly done, and from a safe position at that. He began astonishingly launching fireballs, of all things. Eve jumped up where she stood in surprise. Blast marks of black charcoal began to dot the walls as the heroes hustled away from the rapid incoming fire. It was far from over, to boot. The Big Octo was already quickly charging up another round. Eve ran out of breath yet again and began to regret not finding Dodongo Hide instead of the golden padding she had made from Gratitude Crystals.

The Octorok apparently had some kind of vulnerability on his backside. This was rather fortunate because it seemed that just about everywhere else on his body was so perfectly covered by soft, doughy blubber that it effectively made him impervious to damage. It was truly a weapon to surpass the Great Deku Flying Machine.

Julius began to chase after the Octorok as it chugged around the arena, spewing fireballs all over the place. He knew what had to be done. He had to get his boomerang into his weak spot, otherwise they would never have the opportunity to strike.

Just as it seemed it would be the opportune time to strike, already bringing the boomerang back behind his head, the Octorok suddenly and swiftly changed directions, chasing Julius instead of being chased. If either of them really tried, at this point, they could probably take it from either direction, easily slaying it and making their way out of this Goddess-forsaken fish. But that wasn't the case. It was in this case that neither of them thought very highly of the enemy before them, even though Julius had already felt how hard he could strike. This called for one thing, and one thing alone.

"Eve, do what I pay you to do, and distract it!"

Eve caught the message as her little rest on the side wall came to an abrupt end. While her main goal right now was probably to kill the Octo, she also knew pretty well she needed to get that boomerang to hit. So she tried to come up with a good distraction plan. Her first best idea was just to try talking to it again to get its attention.

"Hey you! Your butt is ginormous!" she yelled at the creature.

Yolo backed away from Julius, and crawled over near Eve. His mood seemed to have changed and become more solemn.

"Yolo always mocked for largeness. He very self-conscious of criticism and get depressed for long time. They mock Yolo and say his ass is too fat." he grumbled dejectedly.

"Me too, Yolo. . . me too." Eve sighed. She looked back up at the Big Octo with a disheveled expression. "Perhaps we are actually the same, you and I."

Yolo looked back at her and got closer. His back was now facing Julius. She looked back up at him with a worried expression. A single tear dripped down her face.

"How do we get out of here, Yolo?" she finally said as he drew near.

"You friendly and understanding. Yolo tells you. There is key to exit to bigger room, through big lock over there. Yolo has swallowed it because he was hungry." he bumbled, his deep red color still wearing off.

"Julius! Hit him now!" she yelled across the room. He was already in the process of throwing his boomerang balls-to-the-wall into the Big Octo's weak point.

The creature shuddered, and tumbled out of composure. He went limp as his large green spot was dug into and pierced by the flaming edges. Eve climed on top of the Octo, and equipped her battle hammer. She slammed the weapon down onto the Octo, and it flattened a small bit as if being deflated. Eve lost her footing and fell off. Out of frustration her Fist Eyes came out, raging giant arms wobbling around like some clumsy puppet show. She rammed the arms into the Octo and picked it up over her head. A combination of her combined gear making it relatively easy. She then smashed the creature down with an overhead dunk with both arms. The Big Octo deflated all the way, becoming like a flat rubber disc. A huge, decorated and bejeweled key flew out of his limp and floppy mouth-snout.

She was just going to assume he was dead, as it was such a pain in the ass being in this fish.

Well. They had a way forward now. And, for whatever reason, this fish had a stupid lock on one of his stupid sphincters. But that didn't matter. What mattered, really, is that they had the key. That was probably the most important thing right now. The next most important thing is that he could have sworn that they were almost out of this fish.

There was still one really important thing that both of them had to do. He headed through the door before Eve, looking at the monstrosity before him. It was... fleshy, and almost tube-like in shape. It connected to the upper walls of whatever organ they were in with three thick... tentacles(?), Julius guessed, and on its outside were numerous gigantic Bari, all with maliciously villainous faces shaped into them.

Rotating Electrical Intestinal Worm
Barinade
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It seemed to immediately sense their presence in the room, sending out at least three of its Bari and increasing the rate at which it spun. "What the hell is this thing?" Julius asked rhetorically. He knew that Eve probably didn't have any idea of what it actually was, but it still felt good to be able to express some form of bewilderment after what he had gone through within this dungeon. It started spinning faster and faster, and an electrical veil came over each of the Bari, their chiseled features and cleft chins disappearing behind a white, crackling wall of electricity.

It eventually connected to the upper tentacles above where some of the Bari were still resting. Its spinning reached a critical point now, a brilliant white ray immediately flashing out of the same tentacles electrical aura of the Bari had zapped into. It was some kind of beam, Julius realized. But the real question was: was it magical? If the answer was no, he would be in for a world of hurt. But if he was correct, then he would be able to deflect it...and maybe even hurt the creature!

He dived in front of Eve, flashing his sword at the beam. Electricity seeped into his being for a split second, causing his muscles to lock up and spasm. His vision went blank, and so did his hearing-- but then he saw the beam of what was essentially ice bounce right back into the same tentacle that had launched it, destroying it in a single blow. "Christ, that hurt," he said, picking himself up from the ground. He drew his boomerang in his opposite hand. "Are you ready?" He asked his companion, looking towards the creature.

Met with a new type of enemy, in a new kind of organ. Eve was fortunate to have that beam deflected away from her. She would be in really bad shape at the start of the fight if it hit her first. This was the climax, the way out of this fishy Hell. She spawned another fake pumpkin in her hand and took a running start. With something of a strained leap, she threw the pumpkin hard at Barinade as a form of protest.

"Yeah Captain this has to be why Jabu-Jabu is sick." she observed.

The room got noisier and noisier as Barinade picked up speed. The serene faces of the Bari blurred up in the cyclone, signifying Barinade's attack. Eve saw the flashing vortex of Bari coming at her. She felt kind of threatened and wanted to attack the Bari back, naturally. So against the grain of the spinning Bari, she slammed in a hook from one of her Fist Eyes. The artificial knuckles snapped into the whirring blade of Bari, and Eve's entire body was shot away with the force of a cannon. A loud noise communicated to Julius that she also took a hefty shock from the interwoven electrical circuit connected to the core. Eve fell in a smoking lump back in the corner.

It seemed in the very least that Barinade was slowing down. It was shifting phases for its next attack presumably, or just to charge energy. Eve lifted a thumb up from the sidelines to signal that she was still in commission. She very gradually attempted to recover from the blow.

"Yeah, that seems pretty likely." He pulled his arm back, launching the boomerang at one of the Bari as the parasite in the center of the room began to slow its rotations. It fell to the floor with something resembling the sound that dropping a far too moist ball of dough would make. Which would be to say that it fell to the floor with almost a splat, though it wasn't entirely so squishy. That was probably because of the more solid membrane holding its insides together.

It was a shame that that same membrane didn't prevent Julius from stabbing through it with several feet of sharpened Mirror Silver. That was one down, but he noticed out of the corner of his eye that Barinade was beginning to ramp its rotations back up, beginning to whirr faster and faster, now that one of the Bari helping to charge it was gone. At least, that was what Julius assumed was going on. "Eve, what we have to do is eliminate the Bari!" He figured it would only help them.

But then Barinade started to slow down once more. This time, Julius knew that it was going to fire a beam-- at least, that it probably was. If Julius was right, then he might destroy another one of the little tentacle things that was holding it up.

He braced himself for another shock. He waited, eyes locked onto Barinade and its myriad of antennae that hung from just below the tubes that supported its weight. Eventually, he saw sparks of electricity begin to flash and fizzle, before intensifying-- it was aiming for Eve! But Julius already knew that he could deflect the beams. He repositioned himself in a matter of moments, and just barely intercepted the beam, accepting the shock and split-second moment of torment that accompanied it.

He dropped to the floor like a sack of stones, all of his muscle either going limp or ridiculously rigid and taut. After he regained sight and sound, he picked himself off the internal lining of Jabu's organ, moving out of the way of one of the two Bari's electrical aura. "Eve, throw your knife!"

Eve was surprised that it kept aiming the beams for her. She winded up the chain on her knife, allowing it to pick up speed and spin like their enemy. The hovering faces of the Bari mesmerized her, but also helped her focus on what she was aiming at. She made a disheveled look at the off-putting faces. At full wind-up she let the knife rip through the air and she let go of the chain. Hopefully if she kept away from the chain she wouldn't take a shock when it touched the Bari. The cold dagger tore through one of them right through the eye on its unsettling face. It then ricocheted and grazed a second Bari nearby, which didn't rip it apart but managed to slightly coat it in ice. The partially frozen Bari flopped to the squishy floor, and the other less fortunate fell to pieces.

"Come!" Eve yelled, zipping the knife back into her hand.

"We're chipping away at it chief! Go for the core!" she gestured at Julius, holding at a wound of hers from before. It looked like she was bleeding. She knew this was their only way out and didn't make any effort to stop the bleeding. A dubious steam rose off of the droplets of blood falling from her. She took a spit and some of the substance fell to the surface of the inner organ. The contact seemed to burn and cause the whole room to make a rumbling sound.

There was a strange rumbling throughout the room, and some how, Julius realized where they were. "You've got to be shitting me," he said, hoping that soon, the fish would do just that.

There was at least one more important thing he had to do aside from escaping the giant, almost grotesque creature they were trapped within; and that thing was killing the parasite that was before them now. With only one tentacle left, and no more Bari surrounding it and allowing it to charge that dumb beam, Julius took the moment to let his boomerang flow through the air, almost effortlessly severing the tentacles that held the creature's great heft. While it spun through the air, he ended the partially frozen Bari flopping about on the ground. It was actually kind of a sad sight, but nothing that he needed to have experienced. In fact, that went for just about this entire dungeon, he realized. None of this was necessary.

But with the last of the Bari surrounding it dead, and the final appendage holding it up severed, it plopped right to thr ground. It began to spin and spin-- but with nothing holding it in place, this movement quickly began to carry it around the room. Eventually, more of the Bari positioned upon its body began to leap off, one by one, until it left an almost gooey pink skin revealed and vulnerable.

Then the Bari began to feed electricity to the creature again-- but this time, he noticed, it wasn't using it to charge that weird beam it could shoot. No, this time it seemed to be... forming a barrier around itself. "We need to take out the Bari first," he told Eve, as he pulled back his boomerang, launching it at another one of the jellyfish already.

Eve wasn't content with the beating she took just before, so she took a stance to get ready to rush the parasite again. She got her legs moving with some issue, slowly removing her arm from her wound. Eve was soon chugging forward with both arms moving at her sides. She threw out her Fist Eyes again, charging directly for the barrier. Julius would probably find himself wondering if it was really worth hiring this help, or if he got off really lucky for hiring somebody who would throw their body into danger so readily to shield him. Eve punched forward and dug all four of her arms into Barinade and clamped down on it. The intertwined pair began to sizzle with electric sparks. From her she began to pull on the worm with all of her combined forces.

The short little Kokiri lit up like a Christmas Tree next to Barinade. Thankfully, while the core was violently tossing Eve off of itself like a ton of bricks flying into a sparrow, it also flung off its shield of Baris. Eve soared across the room, becoming covering in twice as many open wounds as before. A small puddle formed under her smoking heap of what was presumably blood. The steaming discolored substance scalded the organ's flesh more, causing angry looking veins to pop out all across the room. The low hum of rumbling began to grow louder. Eve's head cocked back, her blurry sight catching a Barinade that was becoming angry. It seemed to be pulsing with a ton of blinding electrical energy now.

It looked like there was a fourth hidden usefulness to Evelyn: absorbing enemy blows and performing dumb moves exactly like the one he just saw. He pitched his Boomerang at Barinade, noticing that whatever aura was surrounding it from the Bari was absent. "Eve, get up!" He yelled at the Kokiri girl, fully expecting her to stay down for the rest of the fight.

He charged at Barinade, noticing it abruptly turning a shade of purple. He spent one second charging his blade; after that, the icy wave of energy emanating from his sword tore through its flesh, flash-freezing the flesh that came in direct contact with his sword.

When it found itself able to move again, it did with a greater fervor than an injured parasite should have had. Julius was surprised it wasn't already dead; usually these kinds of things were resolved by now, but... It looked like they still had a ways to go. "Eve!" Julius yelled at his hired help. Right now she wasn't being very... helpful. "I'm gonna throw this boomerang, and then you're going to use your hammer, or those weird fist eyes, or whatever, and we're going to kill this thing. Got it?" He wasn't even sure if Eve was conscious, or able to move at all. For all he knew, she could have been dead. He was honestly kind of flabbergasted at how dumb this girl was being, but that was another topic for another time.

The Bari were still a threat, too. He threw his boomerang in rapid succession, knocking several of them over and down -- presumably dead -- within the span of perhaps half a minute. But what was the Barinade up to? Julius couldn't tell, so he decided to refocus his attention back onto it...

Eve steamed her effort into picking herself back up. Purple streaks of blood discolored her sundress, rendering her more ragged looking than the bile storm before had accomplished. The entire environment rumbled and tossed, she knew something must be happening. As she struggled her legs up, her head swayed upward. Like a limp noodle, a misshapen arm flopped out of one of her eye sockets. There seemed to be more side-effects of her electrical injury than was first apparent. With both hands, she wrung out the shriveled arm like a long sponge. The eye snapped back into her face like rubber.

"Muhhh do I have to?" she whined, choking up a wad of blood in the process. "Okay but I hope I get paid before I die of dysentery from this."

The smoking half-corpse weaved her way through the remaining Baris. She spun around in a dancing motion, slapping some of the Baris with her chain knife. Barinade whirred in a mad purple rage, flashing and distracting its foes. It began to emit waves of electrical pulses, from the remaining Bari and its tentacles. It started to look like a light show as the Baris returned to maximum speed. Eve jumped back, now just about terrified of getting hit again. Julius tossed his boomerang at the nearly-exploding tentacles that spewed down at them. Barinade was mildly thrown off course, sputtering and whirling slower. The worm teetered as its balance faded, shocking darkened burns into the organ tissue it was swirling around in. It then limped a bit over on the far end of the room, struggling to get strength back like Eve was just a few moments ago.

Evelyn dug around in her Adventure Pouch for anything that might help her. All she managed to pull out was her Kinstone Piece. She held it aloft as she waved over at Julius. Evelyn had to cooperate with Julius or she wasn't gonna destroy that thing like he told her to.

"We can kill it, but I want you to try to launch me over there! The beams are too low and I can't jump over them!" she suggested to Julius, walking near him in a spot between the guard and the monster.

Julius grabbed his Hookshot from his pouch, stowing away both sword and boomerang as he took his Backshift Cape into his hands, flinging himself backwards, only to launch his Hookshot forward, grabbing onto the ceiling with ease. He grabbed Evelyn, and flung her at the monster with the force only a hero could muster. A hero with a whole lot of neat equipment, at least.

Eve felt her hand flinging into Julius as if magnetically. He had scooped her up like an absolute hawk, following through with a powerful leap. The Kinstone shard in her hand glued itself to Julius' chest. . . where it connected with its true other half. He had one of the exact same type, it was unbelievable. The feats that luck could achieve would keep her up at night. There was a bright flash of light as she was being launched, and the fused Kinstone hovered radiantly over her head. That was all she knew happened in her blindingly fast flight through the air as Julius tossed her up above Barinade.

Her frame danced on the air. The gas, or whatever fluid it was they were breathing down here, rather. She didn't have time to think about it. As she flopped over the searing electrical pulses, she finally found an opening for a clean hit of her own design. Evelyn found that becoming sufficiently angry was no chore after this thing had made a painful mockery of her. So she go to work right away smashing at it as she descended upon it from above. A clean hammer swing dented it in as she fell into it, the weapon deflecting off its hide. She followed up on it by screaming and beating it down with her Fist Eyes. While it wanted to resist, its tendrils were tender and burnt from the previous attacks. It pushed back at her incoming punches but was whittled away as its flesh started to crumble. The worm thought on some level that it was still mighty enough to push her off.

Julius' damage had formed a crack on the monster which began to widen and spread along its surface. As Eve chipped at it from above, the flesh compounded and the crackled flesh widened open. Barinade's sinews were beginning to spread apart and collapse. Like a large stake, Barinade was clobbered into the hole it came out of as it fell apart along its length and dissolved into Jabu-Jabu's immune system. But as Barinade peacefully dissipated, the rumbling of the room seemed louder and louder as nothing else was left to keep the adventurers' attention. That's right. Eve thought, We're inside a living creature. She clamored to collect her hammer and any items she dropped as she expected they would have to escape.

The thundering roar grew louder, however. It became clear she would not be able to escape. She looked over at Julius, her eyes bulging in worry. The room was crumbling around them like one of the dungeon's doors. On top of that, a terribly colored wave of some fluid was coming directly at them like a torrent. The vortex of the worst smelling bile Eve had ever encountered consumed the pair, violently removing their sight and control. Something like a wrenching mass of muscles squeezed them and assailed them, they were picking up speed and blazing through something fast. Before they could gather a thought of what was happening, the two adventurers were jetted out into a dark cloud of sickly water. Eve floated up to catch her breath, and found that her head was poking out of Great Bay.

"WHY DID WE DO THAT?! WHY DID WE THINK THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA?!" she yelled, traumatized.

Jabu-Jabu swam off happily into the ocean without a care in the world. She barely caught him in her sight as Julius appeared. He wasn't going to help them or thank them, was he? Good grief.

Well, if there was one thing Julius was sure of, he sure as hell wouldn't be repeating that any time soon. He saw docks in the distance, and signaled to Eve that that was where they should go.

When they got there, an old Goron with a rather long beard helped them up. Julius noticed that it was, in at least one way, rather strange looking. "Thank you, sir," he said while he helped lift Eve. With her on the deck now as well, he turned to the elderly Goron. "I'm looking for passage on a ship."

"A ship, hmm?" The Goron wasn't in the mood for any passengers. "Well, normally, I'd have you taken back, but my ship... uh, it sank." Julius wasn't in the mood to go back down there to get it. "That's too bad, really. Well, if you'd like, we would also be fine operating a dhingy." The Goron thought about that for a moment, then nodded. "Fine, fine. Just... be careful with it, alright?"

He lead them to a boat, a simple dhingy no more complex than that. "When you get to... wherever it is that you guys are going, just leave it there." Julius took this as a sign to just keep the boat.

"Very well," he said crawling into the dhingy. He'd lain eyes upon the oars, and sidled up close to them. Then, with a groan of stress, it started drifting along. With an audible groan from Julius, the boat started to shake and rattle. He was rowing.

They were at a tavern now. In it, there was an air of misery abrew as Julius and Eve sat there, simply existing. "Never in my life will I go back in another fish," he said, downing the last of his brew. "Never in my life am I going to go back into another fish."

"It's okay mister super hero, I don't think anybody goes inside fish too often. . ." Eve began, before hailing down the bartender for their world's version of a White Russian. The mustachioed dandy strolled over casually.

"I'm sorry miss, I can't serve ya' that unless I get some proof you're one-a them Kokiri." he explained, continuing to wipe off a crystal glass. Eve sighed and adjusted the blindfold around her head. She couldn't just go to a higher authority to confirm her identity, for many reasons.

"I have some sort of authority with me, he can vouch for me." she said, pointing to the guard decked to the nines sitting beside her. The bartender was much more seasoned and savvy than the Korkiri in the stool, and recognized the Guard Captain's standing immediately.

"There'll be no need, miss. I've seen him here before, he's practically famous!" he blurted out, eyes popping. "He's got the sorta reputation where this is no joking matter, I'll believe it." he finished as he whipped out the milk and cream. As he got to mixing, Eve switched back to the task at hand.

"You're a big deal, huh." she mentioned, tapping her feet on the counter. If she didn't want to lose control of her curse and flip out, she had to refrain from properly looking around the room. It was a bit of a sour trade, but she wanted to relax for once. What a genuine nightmare all of that Zora business was! It gave her a newfound appreciation for what she had. Though it didn't mean much in regards to things that hadn't taken place yet.

"Tell you what, Clanks. I'll come back to the Guard Station in a week or two, and we can do some hero thing like this again. To make up for that whole mess that just happened, I think I owe you at least that much!" she blurted out as her drink was about ready.

Evelyn scooped out her hand and got a good grip on the milky, layered beverage. Without much more thought she began to sip at it as if it were tea.



Eve woke up on the ground outside the tavern. Only barely remembering her promise, she was unsure of what happened after that first sip. From the light of the sky, it must had been many hours since the innocent drinking began. Assured that she should head for the hills by now, and twice as sure that Julius was well on his way back to his post, she bolted off into the woods. The man surely headed out before she was booted out of the tavern, or she was sure the knightly character would have stuck her in a bed somewhere.

"They really shouldn't let me into taverns in the first place." she quipped as she legged it for the mountain range.

~ fin ~​