[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/raw3xpc.jpg[/img][/center][right][hr][color=gray][b]Guixiang, City of Living Rubies[/b]
RY 768, EARLY DAYS OF RESPLENDENT WOOD. SUMMER HAS COME.[/color][hr][/right][b]"But I'm a child, and so is the other boy in armor! Why are you sending us for such a task?!"[/b]

[color=C4484C][b]"Why would you choose a group of strangers to parley with such a man?"[/b][/color]

[color=gray]The party assembled was more or less evenly split into groups on the issue. There were some who had not spoken their thoughts, some who were in agreement from the beginning, and some who held their reservations towards helping the goddess with her quest. One of these--the red-haired woman with a viper's tongue--had chosen to make her words speak louder than the others, striking a nerve in the goddess. How dare she, as a mortal, speak to a god with such a tone?

Anger swelled within the goddess, yet she quickly attempted to regain her composure.[/color] [color=white][b]"You speak with a tone that would give probable cause for your death in many courts, mortal. I suggest you choose your wording carefully next time."[/b][/color] [color=gray]The goddess harshly spoke, before returning to the main topic on-hand; her gaze turning from Karilis to the entire group once more.[/color] [color=white][b]"I may be capable of accomplishing the task myself, or even with a group [i]far more intimate[/i] as you had put it, but I can not so easily abandon my duties to this city."

"There are those Exalted among you--a great boon to begin with, and one I can not allow to pass up. Not to add that some of you say that you are children, yet even so, you carry around armor and blade as if you were an adult."[/b][/color] [color=gray]The goddess replied.[/color] [color=white][b]"Now, I will ask again. Are you up for this task, like the rest of those who had agreed beforehand?"[/b][/color] [color=gray]She finished, waiting for an answer from those still undecided, or opposed.[/color]