With her last song finished, Claudia bowed with a curtsey of her dress and a glowing smile upon her lips.  The crowd cheered her on, tossing more coins into her hat and clapping their hands in rancorous applause.  "Thank you!  Ah, thank you good people of Coven!". She laughed stringing her lute over her shoulder.  "You've been a lovely audience, and if you wish to hear more, please stop by the tavern tonight where I'll be playing.  As for now, I bid you all a fond farewell and may the gods bless you!". And with that, Claudia gave another bow before picking up her hat and placing the gold she had made into her coin purse.

[i]"Quite the killing I've made off these people."[/i]. She mused with a wry smirk.  After the crowd had dispersed, she went along her merry way, but as she did so, she couldn't help but notice the strange fellow garbed in dirty brown rags skulking about.  He was of a nefarious sort to her, perhaps a brigand she thought.  Instinctively, her hand rested upon the hilt of her rapier as she looked at the man once then turned away, momentarily glancing over her shoulder.