Pina looked up suddenly from Belle’s shoulder and her eyes turned to follow his gaze until they fell upon the boy approaching them. She realised, before he got close who he was, his player ID betraying him. However formal introductions were still always a nice touch. “I’m Belle.” She said, her voice gentle as if anything too sudden may startle him. “This is my friend Pina and you’re the one who the system paired me up with for the mentoring program aren’t you?” A rhetorical question really, they both knew that.

“Look… don’t take this the wrong way or anything, but I think the idea of permanently being paired up with someone is… stupid. So I have to reject the invitation to be your mentor.” She informed him, trying to be as delicate about it as possible. “But I’d be happy to form a party with you and be your mentor unofficially.” She offered, feeling maybe a little bad for the kid. She remembered what it was like to be new, it was a big scary world out here. Sometimes the people were a bigger danger than the monsters. Who knew, maybe this would be good for her, she’d gotten Pina later than she was supposed to, so it wouldn’t hurt to get some safe practice with him on lower level quests and monsters.