[center][h1][color=fb441a]Lin Liao[/color][/h1][/center]
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With their deal all but sealed, Lin arose from the table with the others. The midnight haired woman couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow at what Maria had left as their payment. Hopefully that was simply an accepted form of compensation and not the local currency. She would have quite a hard time exchanging that for actual money when they got back to Miso.

Any thought of money was quickly pushed out of her mind at the sight of the carriage’s interesting choice in steed. The disturbing creature had so far topped the list of creepy things she had seen, yet those around here seemed at ease around it. Caprice even began guessing the name of the creature.

[color=fb441a]“Yeah let’s go ahead and [i]not[/i] give that thing a name. Come on.”[/color] Lin commented as she grabbed the back of the enthusiastic food mage’s collar and pulled her into the carriage.

The rest of the ride was; uneventful. Not to say Maria’s lecture on the World of Wasted Dreams wasn’t intriguing. Lin felt it compared to one of the college classes she had taken a few years back; very insightful, but not as engaging as say, fighting a horde of animated gravestones. Still, Caprice and Sherry seemed very enthralled, and it helped pass the time until they had arrived at their destination. A destination that was nothing short of breath taking.

[color=fb441a]“You said it.”[/color] Lin replied to Sherry’s observation of the castle. The monk felt a stir inside her as she was overcome with a mix of dread and awe at the sight of the ominous yet equally beautiful stone castle. Yet her attention was drawn away when heard a crack of the reigns and the wheels of the carriage begin to turn. She spun around just in time to see their transportation leaving them.

[color=fb441a]“Huh. One way trip I guess. Wait, what’s that?”[/color] She spoke her thoughts aloud as her gaze turned down from the vehicle, and instead to the pristine card lying on the ground. Without another work the curious monk moved towards the card and picked it up. [color=fb441a]“Ami, eh?”[/color] She said as she read the name printed on the card. [color=fb441a]“Hope you pack some punch.”[/color]

Slipping the card into her bracer, Lin turned her attention back to the castle. [color=fb441a]“So we got a plan or… Hang on… Do you guys hear something?”[/color]