Meche took a seat as Rowan showed her a seat. Her fluffy platinum blonde hair bouncing slightly as she seated herself. She was seemingly unperturbed by the man's curtness. "Actually some coffee would be nice, but that's besides the point." There was a professional look to her as she looked at him.

She would then continue, "Well Guildmaster Rowan, as you know we have a trouble with a surging monster population.  Already it's causing trouble with attacks, destroyed property, and as we've seen below a lot of complaints from merchants traveling. There's also the fact that it's going to be disruptive to the upcoming festival as well. Unfortunately the guard has been deliberating how to properly address this problem for too long. We're currently strapped in resources, particularly manpower especially when everyone is demanding an escort and other such things. And so we're just underprepared to deal with a problem of this scale."

There was a pause in her speech. She then continued, "Protection of the town and the adjacent area is our duty. While we appreciate what you're doing, we cannot idly stand by and let you do this alone from both a practical and reputational standpoint. The reason why I'm here is to deliver a message. The guard wants to create a temporal joint task force with dealing with these monsters. We will want to deploy people on patrols and hunts for monsters that stray too close or are particularly notorious.  But really, the goal here is to discover what is the source of all this increased monster activity and deal with it accordingly. These monsters threaten both people's lives and the town's livelihood of traders passing by and we can't afford to let this situation escalate. So what do you say, do you agree to this partnership?"
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Pisco was somewhat amused by the woman's change in expression as he mentioned wares to sell. It was so intense, compared to his laid back state. Still, it wouldn't turn him away as making some extra cash was always nice. Plus he had nothing better to do right now.  "I specialize in making oldest friend of all the sapient races, alcohol. Particularly beers and wines. I don't produce any spirits. Some of my product can be found in this fine establishment and I've already sold to merchants before so I know my product is decent enough." There was a bit of a dissonance in his friendly manner of speaking against this detached energy he was giving off.  

He took a drink of whiskey as he looked at Hina. He then spoke again, "So would you be interested in both or perhaps one of the beers or wines? Also, that beer you have isn't one of mine. But perhaps I could recommend and buy you one of mine? I see you're drinking an ale, perhaps you'd like something on that level or perhaps darker? Of course it's also a nice morning, so perhaps something lighter and more invigorating would be more suitable?" Already he was doing his routine of picking out a drink like it was second nature.