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

The strange man who called himself Gin vanished in the same sudden and mysterious way he appeared. Leaving no traces of his presence there other than Karina and the other's own memories of what happened. As soon as he disappeared, things went back to normal. Whoever that Gin man was, he was undeniably powerful. To do something as freeze time itself wasn't something that Karina thought it was even possible...

The nobleman and the royal guardsmen were the first ones to talk with the innkeeper, who was completely oblivious to what had just happened, asking for jade candles and a room.

Karina still had many things on her mind. A lot of things to think about such as the situation itself, how to fight against the cult or even how to contact the forward camp to tell them the information she gathered until now, but as much as she wanted to be by herself and just meditate about all that, she couldn't ignore Hark's words. Someone indeed should keep an eye on Chres... Just as Gin said previously, he was 'touched' by the cult's so called 'insight'... Whatever it was...

Sighing deeply, Karina turned to the Innkeeper with an awkward smile.

[color=6ecff6]"You probably know already what I'm going to ask for."[/color] She said.

[color=6ecff6]"Just a room and jade candles. I'm afraid that it will be hard to sleep this night."[/color] Karina said, with a troubled expression. Many different things were troubling her mind. She couldn't afford to just be her careless self. She wasn't home, she was in enemy territory, and to make things worse, the cult was quickly proving to be much worse than the Nation of Sight...

Looking towards the others who also 'present' and heard what Gin said with a serious, analyzing stare, she finally said:

[color=6ecff6]"We have much better chances of getting out of this alive if we work together. Any questions, any suggestions or ideas you might have, I would be grateful to be informed about."[/color] Karina said, looking to them.

[color=6ecff6]"As much as I dislike this... I have no choice but to trust both Gin and you all... No offense, of course."[/color] Karina completed.
[color=6ecff6]"That said... Even though not just I... But we all are in a complicated situation, if anyone tries anything funny, I won't think twice to deal with them [I]myself[/I]."[/color] Karina said, looking to Chres as he went up the stairs with an icy cold stare and a neutral, but firm tone. Her stare and her tone made it clear that she was being serious. Even though she said that specifically referring to Chres, it was also a warning to the other ones as well. The feeling that small, delicate girl passed was nothing like her image.

Once more, the way Karina acted at that moment was nothing like a courier would act. It was almost a dead giveaway. But seeing the situation she was in, maintaining her disguise wasn't the first priority anymore. She had to be sure she would be able to get to the forward camp to tell her superiors of everything she saw and heard. The plan to infiltrate herself in enemy territory for a reconnaissance mission was ruined, or if you looked at it by a different angle, succeeded the second Gin appeared and after everything happened. In fact, the second she entered that town and started hearing about the cult more and more from many different people, made her stop dismissing such unlikely and absurd rumors as just fabricated stories. The events on that last hour though confirmed what she was thinking previously. All those absurd rumors about how powerful the cult really are were not fabricated lies. The real threat wasn't the nation of sight. It never was. The real threat was the cult.