Rochelle smirked as the queen responded to everyone's motivations. While their answers weren't exactly noble or heroic, surely there was some value in honestly at least. When they were told where the treasure was Rochelle checked her equipment for the journey below, only to get interrupted by a guardsman. Apparently assassins are like thugs in the capital city of Angi, because they just strode up to the queen's castle and wants a piece of her. Rochelle may have been a bandit out in the wastelands, but even she had a bit more tack and subtly than that. What did they expect the queen and her guards to do, cower and flee?

The fact that Rochelle really wasn't sure is why she didn't immediately go with the other heroes to face the assassins. Instead she turned towards the queen and her bodyguard. [b]"I may be from these lands, but that don't mean I feel particularly attached to you or the land. If living in Angi taught me anything, it was that there's a fire in everyone, and the only ones who can let their fire burn are the ones who can snuff out others. So... I gotta ask: Are you going to fight, or will you let your light go out?"[/b] Rochelle looked directly at the queen. Rochelle never much liked those who sat on their laurels. If she was the Queen of Angi, the land of fire, than Rochelle expected her to be able to act and fight like a Queen of Fire.

[@Darkmoon Angel]