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[h3][color=lightgreen]TEAM BROCCOLI[/color][/h3]

Andica slunk quietly through the dark streets towards the gate, one hand on Kavinika's leash and the other clutching her large cloth sack of supplies. It was awkward to carry and bulged in weird places. She hadn't had time to plan her escape or what to take with her, and it had all been gathered in furtive silence as her family slept around her. It had felt like a betrayal, but her decision had been made. There was no turning back now.

At least, so she had thought until the sun rose ever higher and still Spook failed to appear. The poster she had seen had said "be ready to leave immediately", she was sure. The line played over and over in her mind as she fretted in the shortening shadows of the gatehouse. This traveller had seemed to provide the perfect opportunity to be gone before she was missed, but now as the hours ticked by, it became ever more likely that someone from her family, or worse, her fiance, would think to find her here and come searching.

Andica didn't think she could bear that. This had seemed so much easier in the dark house, anger and frustration still fresh in her head. If her father appeared here, arms outstretched and calling her name, she might not be able to stay away. It was cruel to them to run away like this, she knew, and not at all what they deserved for raising her with kindness. It was Santini Quade she was fleeing, not them, but her family would surely take it the hardest.

She thought she caught site of Dane once, out in the street, but her little brother's head of shaggy blond hair didn't come any closer to her hiding spot, and disappeared off up the street. He had hardly gone, however, before Spook appeared at last.

After hearing his instructions, she bounced quickly towards the front of the group, hard on Spook's heels as they got around the gate and out of sight of the street behind. With that settled, she could look around her her teammates.There was one, a guy with a big sword and a guard's uniform, who immediately walked off to speak to a member of a different team. Not the sharpest tool in the shed, that one, or so she surmised. That left herself, a woman with a white dress and red hair, cousin Samieh (and she thought she had been dodging her relatives) and Sharie, the girl in gloves and goggles who had just introduced herself in a slight aristocratic accent..

[color=00a651]"As you say"[/color] Andica replied. [color=00a651]"My name is Andica".[/color] She dropped a rough curtsey before reconsidering the action. They were going out of Enn now, where you didn't have to bow before nobles. They were here as teammates, travelling companions, friends and... equals?
[color=00a651]"Good to meet you, my friend"[/color] she amended herself, this time extending a hand to shake.

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