Nephene grinned as the merc brought her a drink. Although she acted like an experienced drinker in reality she had never touched alcohol before. She cautiously took a sip of the frothing liquid and barely managed to contain her disgust, and her drink. She carefully set the mug back down having no intention to drink any more of the revolting stuff, she had heard such tales of heroes indulging in drinking contests of epic portions, but how anyone could drink even a mug of the stuff was more than she could fathom. She focused on the showoff noble and his question, [color=red]"In my opinion our leader seems to be a good tactician and serving a good cause. And any good hero helps a good cause."[/color] she said proudly. Of course plunder from their enemies would let her buy cooler stuff, and cooler stuff made a cooler hero...