[color=6ecff6][center][h1]Karina Frost[/h1][/center][/color]

Karina quietly heard as Gin explained all the situation. If things really went how he said they did, if it wasn't for him, they would all be dead. Obviously, Karina still had her doubts. She didn't know what type of magic the cult used, but she was more than confident on her own skills, both magical and physical.

With so many thoughts running through her mind, she took a while to realize that Chres had been throwing some weird stares at her. Karina knew her appearance was exotic, to say the least, but she had a feeling that it was more than just that... It was almost like if he was trying to remember of something... Fearing being revealed, Karina sat down again on the counter, lowering her hands with an calm expression trying to look more inoffensive and feigning that she was still in shock by the words Gin just said. With luck, that could maybe help to make Chres less suspicious of her.

When Gin started talking about Chres, and how he was already 'touched' by the cultists and felt their 'insight' as the man called it, Karina made a mental note, to keep an eye on him. If what Gin said was true, he could possibly go berserk like the rest again... and she wasn't that naïve to not keep an eye on him...

But the second Gin started talking to her, Karina couldn't help but drop the inoffensive look on her face, looking at Gin with a cold, penetrating stare as he called her 'Karlie'

[color=6ecff6]"While it's obvious now that you're not with the cult, that doesn't change what you are, a wild card."[/color] Karina said, still looking at him with the same eyes.

[color=6ecff6]"But seeing the situation I'm in right now, I have no choice but to trust your words."[/color] Karina said, sighing almost as if she was regretting saying that. There really wasn't many choices for Karina. She was in a tight spot. Information was hard to come by and they were attacked by the cult in the worst possible time for Karina. Information was indeed half one needs to win the war... And she didn't know anything about the cult...

As she thought, the lowlife, which was apparently called Dirty Bastard, quite a fitting name in her opinion, started talking. He was awfully quick to trust and cooperate with Gin... She somewhat expected him to be more... careful... seeing the type of life he probably took... All the others were still in silence, probably weighting their few options on that moment, including Chres...

Just after that, Gin started a long explanation about the Cult and the sightless. Information. Valuable information. Karina needed that desperately. After she carefully heard him, crossing the information he gave to her and the few bits she had of her own, all he said seemed to be very plausible, and not a fabricated lie. That was, at least for now, a point for Gin. She knew that at least she could place some trust on the man. The enemy of her enemy is her friend. As Gin continued talking about the Cult and the Sightless, he could feel that Karina's cold and penetrating stare eased quite a bit for the better.

The situation apparently was already way worse than Karina had previously thought. The Cultists were really able to do so much in just a brief amount of time? That was a danger not only to the nation of Touch, but to all the nations...

[color=6ecff6]"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."[/color] Karina said, looking to Gin.

[color=6ecff6]"But that doesn't mean I trust you, at least not completely. Information is a very powerful weapon. Telling so much from the Cultists and the sightless are more than enough proof that you really isn't one of them."[/color] Karina said.

[color=6ecff6]"As Dirty Bastard..."[/color] Karina said, raising one eyebrow as she repeated that weird name.
[color=6ecff6]"Said... It would be good to know more about the seed. But I have some other question... Countermeasures..."[/color] Karina said, looking to Gin with a serious stare.

[color=6ecff6]"Is there a way to prevent the cultists to simply spread those seeds? This power can potentially turn even a powerful nation into nothing but a pile of rubble and blood in a few days..."[/color] she said.

[color=6ecff6]"It's somewhat understandable why this town is in this state... As the cult apparently had a long time to infiltrate itself and do whatever it wanted... But I suppose it requires some sort of... preparation... in order to plant this 'seed', am I right? Is there some way of turning this against their own?"[/color] Karina asked, obviously wanting to know not only how to escape, but how to effectively combat and counter the strange power the Cult had in their possession.

She needed more information. The cult was incredibly dangerous. She had to gather as much as possible before getting out of that town and going to the nation of touch's forward operating base to deliver that information. That would change everything... Their war wasn't against the nation of Sight anymore... It was against the Cult, which by that time, probably already had so much influence in the nation that she wouldn't be surprised if they were also controlling the King somehow...