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Siloratan had just traveled for about a day, give or take, from the last village. It really sucked that those villages with jobs tended to be out in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere. And coincidentally that's where the smaller, more useless groups also tended to be. And that's what her current goal was, find a small useless group and then see what she could do with them.

Her mount, a large monster with a remarkable and unique skin color, thumped through the town. Some people looked at amazement but most others seemed to be.. slightly scared. [i]As they should be,[/i] of course. The creature was a monster, and if left untamed and un-commanded for long enough it would return to being it's wild self in order to feed itself. But luckily the woman riding atop the creature, with a large hawk placed upon her shoulder, was more than capable of controlling the large beast. But not everyone seemed to know that, which was understandable, but slightly annoying as people would point and stare in fear. 

She parked the monster somewhere safe, and tied it down. It was hard to find 'parking' spots, but usually a place where prowlers stood would be a good place for the monster, because villagers tended to avoid those. Maybe that was because sometimes, the hunters were assholes. Either way, she parked the monster and looked around, spotting at least two other monsters, leashed and saddled, but they were far smaller than hers. Probably just for transit, either that or amateur tamers. Regardless, taming a monster was impressive, a real art, so it wasn't a small feat.

She hopped off the monster and petted it, ushering a [i]“Good job, Bubs,”[/i] to the monster before turning around and walking away. As she walked past a single, large prowler, she noticed a note was attached to the front windshield. Being curious, she took it off and read it. 

[i]Dear Shabu Shabu Friends,

I'm sorry I have to leave like this, but another cool prowler just drove by and they needed a sixth member for an elite mission. Also, they had cool stickers on their car, so I fell in love. They said they'd even let me drive the thing. I look forward to crashing it already. 

I hope to see you again sometimes, I'll surely be back! They said we'd be hunting a giga electric dragon or something. I don't know what that is. Something also about 'possibility of electrically induced coma' or something. But I'll be fine! I'll see you around!

Love you, Estelle! Your cushions are the best. And Rhein, you're the only one who understands my love for cushions!

Not you Saffron. Eat a bag of d-(scribbles and smears that resemble someone writing in anger)

♥ Grímhilðr[/i]

Huh. Shabu Shabu party. Sounded like an interesting mix - if slightly erratic and stupid. The name Rhein reminded her of something, someone, but it was really just a wild guess, and that person was dead, wasn't he?

It might be worth a look to go see if this group was interested in taking on an Eldrin hunter. Even if it was just to sate her curiosity about the letter. She pocketed it quickly, and then headed into the village again. She walked by the hot springs at first, but heard a rather loud stomping noise. Curious... had a monster escaped into the village and was it now ransacking the hot springs? She decided to go check it out. She headed in, paid the clerk, and quickly changed into the bathrobes. She kept her sword with her though. Just in case a monster [i]was[/i] there. If she had to she'd fight it in the nude, because monster hunting came first, in order to keep everyone safe. Such were her duties as a noble woman that wished the best for the people around her. [i]Oh, she had such a noble heart.[/i]

But as she approached the hotsprings, all she saw was a catwoman and a .. muscular woman. That seemed to be the cause of the stomping. She was just in time to hear the catwoman say her name. [i]“Estelle?”[/i] she mumbled to herself while she slowly approached the baths on the other side of the muscular woman and Estelle, placing down the sword on the edge of the bath. Slowly she got rid of the bathrobes, revealing her slim, petite body. Then she dipped her feet in to the bath and slowly let herself sink into it, forcing herself to dip in further than normal due to her 6'6 stature. It was generally quite hard for her to enjoy hot springs for that reason. 

[i]“Um, excuse me,”[/i] she said, looking at Estelle specifically. [i]“You said you were Estelle? I.. might have something for you. A boy.. girl.. girl? Um, she asked me to deliver a letter to you.”[/i] [i]That was a lie,[/i] but it'd be stupid to tell her that she had basically stole the letter. Also, her fascination for races that weren't Eldrin was starting to play up, and she felt strangely attracted to the cute catgirl. She didn't want to ruin her chances with this girl already.