Chartose winced as he felt Ezzemara's fingers slide up his waist, tucking themselves under the metal collar before tearing it off from him in one solid tug, she was offering freedom to run off into the night and disappear. It was an offer he refused, shaking his head as he leaned up against the giantess's chest in an effort to sit upright, [color=7bcdc8]"Chains aren't necessary, to earn my company. Besides, it's already too dark out to go looking for people alone."
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He pulled-out a flask of honey-flavored ale, brewed back in Green Falls, and offered the pittance of a drink to the hostess. [color=7bcdc8]"It's not much, but it's some of the finest ale in Ebonfort."[/color]

It was then he remembered, [i]or rather, was reminded,[/i] that he was forgetting something. He'd already summoned Becker once, and he hadn't practiced [i]nearly[/i] so much with calling-out a mark as he did summoning with an effigy... in fact, not at all... He closed his eyes and concentrated, recalling what Tricia looked like, trying to discern where her consciousness was hiding upon his hide, and finding a place to put it in the space around him... Outwardly, it looked as though he was having a bit of gas.

But nevertheless, he was eventually successful in bringing an extremely energetic and curious Tricia back out into the world. Her first oddity to explore being Ezzemara. Chartose mentally scolded his longtime traveling-companion to remember to keep her claws retracted when treading upon their host's flesh as she sniffed and inspected the first frost-giant she'd ever met.

Chartose gave a moment to let the two calm-down from their surprise, [color=7bcdc8]"Ezzemara, this is Tricia. She's a scream-raptor from the southern Chartic forests, I didn't figure too many are seen up here, and she [i]did[/i] sort of want to meet some of the northerners and how they lived."[/color]

At the last bit, Tricia curled her neck back to give Chartose a good scolding before giving her otherwise undivided attention to Ezzemara and the lattice-rafters overhead, access she found by climbing the chain that previously held Chartose.

[color=7bcdc8]"So if you're so lonely [i]here[/i], then what is keeping you from traveling by my side if I offered you the chance?"[/color] He finally asked, since he could tell she was feeling pretty miserable on top of a simple case of loneliness.