"So what do you got?"

"With this amount? Hmph, I can hint you at the best restaurant in town if that's what you're looking for miss".

The inn was barely even half filled at the time of the day, most people inside being regulars coming in early, or staying very, very late. It was far from the fanciest places in the grand city of Averecia she was located at the moment, but it was best for her needs... informants didn't go just anywhere to meet clients, especially when the information Stephanie needed was something crucial, as well as costly. Throwing another bag about twice from the previous size, she knew fairly well that her funds would still last to get to the nearby towns, where ever her target was moving.

The man was a complete mystery. Only the name of 'Saul Tharion' was her lead... of course if the pay hadn't been size of early retirement, she hadn't even considered it. "Alright, there, all I need is the name of the place, shouldn't be that expensive".

The man looked at the pouch and then bag at Stephanie, taking a small drag from his pipe. "...Tarnoa. Pleasure doing busine-".

"Don't bullshit me!" Stephanie half shouted, slamming her fist in the table, before realizing she was making quite a ruckus, creating bit too much attention to her liking. Looking at the gazes on the surrounding tables she calmed down a little, relaxing her body just enough to get the other tables back to their own things. "Tarnoa? Did you hold the map upside down or something when you came up with that?" she hissed. Tarnoa was along the east coast of the land... Averecia was on the west.

"You'll find any informant that says otherwise, you'll come and get refunds lass, but until then..." the man said half innocently, though Stephanie saw that he was just enjoying the fact such information had made such a fortune to him. Stephanie stood up, not even saying a word, glancing at the informant one last time before firmly stepping outside from the pub. Getting back to the street, Stephanie took a deep breath, trying to calm down for a moment, before just kicking the outer wall of the pub in anger, in such a sturdy way it made the inn sign drop to the ground. "Goddamnit!" she just cursed, not even caring for the damage she had done.

"What did the pub do to you?" Katherin asked curiously. She had seen the other woman storm out of the pub. Katherin concluded that the woman's business hadn't gone well. She guessed the woman business had something to do with information. The questions was what kind of information.

Stephanie quickly turned her head to see the woman asking the question. From the very first look she could already tell that this woman had no part of anything she was going to gain of. She wasn't a merc, not informant, not a quest seeker. She looked more of authority type of a woman, maybe even royal if you stretched it to those small island nations.

"..Nothing..." Stephanie said, managing to swallow the 'None of your business' she wanted to say. However, it wasn't too wise in case she could just carry Stephanie to a jail for aggressive behavior. "No trouble... you can go back to your duties." she said, making a quick eyeing at the girls sword. It looked really, really expensive. If Stephanie had anything like that along with her to sell, this wouldn't even be a bad situation. She had been hunting this man for weeks, and finally that she knew to pinpoint the guy, she was lacking the very exact thing she was getting when finishing the job. The irony...

"So do you often go around kicking buildings for doing nothing?" Katherin approached the other woman. Katherine's guess was that this woman was a Merc or a quester of some sort. Possible the kind of person that might have information that could help her. "I am looking for information on a man."

"Well, good luck on that information." she said, rolling her eyes, as she grabbed the sign and even placed it back to lean against the inn wall to try and seem like a proper citizen or an adventurer, not a merc that takes illegal contracts to murder people. "I've been playing cards all day long, so unless the guy was on the table with me, I doubt I'm much use." she flat out lied. "So yeah, I need to get back to my duties, so if you wouldn't mind, I would like to be on my own way for now".

Katherin laugh. "Does anyone believe a word you say? You haven't even asked me who I am seeking or if there is a reward for the information. Which means you know something. You can tell me or I campn follow you. The choice is yours."

"Of course I know something, It's my job to know something..." Stephanie hissed, not exactly wanting to leak anything to the people passing by. After all, it wasn't every day you would see two people like them chatting in such open manner. "But I also have rules, so if you know what's good for you, piss off." she said, before just quickly turning away from her and starting to walk along the street in as fast pace as she could without running, hopefully the girl just deciding the pub would be far more better idea than continuing to bug Stephanie.

Katherin smiled and shook her head. If the merc thought she was going to gibe up that easily on her first real lead she had another thing coming. Katherin followed the other woman with ease. Ignoring the odd looks she received as she went.

Stephanie kept walking, though she felt like someone kept watching her... not just someone, but taking a quick look behind her she noticed the woman had started to follow her. Stephanie couldn't really go anywhere if someone was following her, not to her room, nor to her contacts. She needed to get that lady off of her back. "Alright." Stephanie said, turning around to face the girl and walking closer at her. Stephanies patience with something like this was really low, like trying to kill noisy fly from the bedroom during night hours. "Maybe I wasn't clear enough before, so I say it like this." Stephanie said, stepping close enough for a look turn into stare. She could even notice this woman was slightly taller than her, but not by a meaningful amount, just enough that she had to lift her chin up a little to look to her eyes. "The only thing you should be looking from me is some heavy black eyeliner, so unless you were wanting to be laying on the dirt in such a pretty wear, get the hell out of my sight".

"Nope not going to happen." Katherin replies cheerfully. She smiled pleasantly. It was obviously she wasn't frightened or impressed by the threat that had been issued. "You know about Saul Tharion and I'm going to find out exactly what it is."

Stephanie's eyes went bit more wider for a second as she heard the name. She then remained on her stance, as much as reward would be nice, the less people going after the man the better. If someone would fail to deal with Tharion there before Stephanie would reach Tarnoa, that man would be slipping from her grasps again. Taking few steps forward, she crossed her arms in front of her, almost making a touching contact now, as she kept looking at the girls eyes.

"Never heard. Now I warn you for the last time..." she grunted at her. She was already turning her other hand into fist in case this woman would test her patience.

"I am almost impressed with your determination. But your going to have to learn to lie better if you want people to believe you. Your eyes give you away. Now the king as sent me on a quest and I'm going to get the information I need." Katherin placed her hand onto of the other woman's fist.

"You won't be getting anything from me. And get your fucking hands off of me." Stephanie said, using the fist to push the hand Katherin had placed onto it aggressively. "Last thing I need is some cocked up half royal harassing me. You have no authority over me so take the hint." Stephanie said, hoping that was actually the case. She then used both of her hands in attempt to push both of the womans shoulders back with force. If it wouldn't make her trip over, it probably at least would make her step once or twice backwards.

Katherin took a step back. She admired the other woman's spunk. However that was not going to prevent Katherin from completing her mission. "We can work together to achieve our goals. Or I can follow you distraciong you and drawing attention. Which do you think will be the most productive? "