[color=silver][center][h2][color=#ce8396]𝕷𝖊𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖆 𝕯𝖊𝖜𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖕[/color][/h2][/center][center]__________________________________________________[/center]

[color=#ce8396]"Ah, I see! My apologies,"[/color] Leanna offered when the woman claimed the seat taken. She sounded calm enough - not someone who was being chased or otherwise in trouble. Her concern must've been misplaced.

Leanna thanked the woman, then readied to excuse herself. Before she could however, a shout rattled her from her thoughts. She spun around, a feeling of dread in her stomach. That one shout turned into two, three, a [i]dozen[/i], until she could no longer tell one panicked voice from another. Behind the crowds, a large monster pulled itself up from the well and stood to its full height. Leanna did not know what exactly it was - but she recognized the claws as the ones she'd seen in the well a moment earlier.

[color=#ce8396][i]I should have told someone sooner,[/i][/color] Leanna realized. The moment she saw those claws, even if she wasn't sure whether they were decoration or belonged to something living. Even if she had made a fool out of herself. It would've been preferable to... this. Instead, she'd tried to run - and even that had been a half-hearted attempt. 

... She could still run, though. No one would fault her if she did.

But no, she intended to be an adventurer. And adventurers did not turn their backs to people who needed their aid. She could not offer much in combat prowess, that was true, but at the very least she could heal those who did.

[color=#ce8396]"You'd best wait for your friend no longer," [/color]she told the woman hastily, standing her ground as she stared down the monster. Formidable as it was, it wasn't the monster from her memories. She could face it.[center]__________________________________________________

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Leanna rolled [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/18769]19[/url] for initiative.[/hider][/center][/color]