[table][row][cell][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/NkHShyh.gif[/img][/center][right][color=gray][sub][color=6699CC][b]Location[/b][/color] [color=white]—[/color][i] Coliseum, New Rome[/i][/sub][/color][/right][/cell][cell][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/VlXuH1U.gif[/img][/center][/cell][/row][/table][center][color=6699CC]▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅[/color][/center][indent][indent][color=gray]Rauni glanced to her side. A recognizable face sat beside her, placing a pizza between the two women.

[color=6699CC]"I..."[/color] She began, hesitance in her voice. [color=6699CC]"I'm afraid it has been too long for me to make any kind of bets."[/color]

The daughter of Aquilo offered Lilith a soft smile. Indeed, it had been long since Rauni had been in the loop. She hadn't paid much heed to anyone since her retirement. Though the spar included faces Rauni had long since known during her tour of service, it felt like staring at empty pages. There was much she had surely missed out on throughout her self-isolation. People. Events. Life and death. Much had changed where Rauni had not.

[color=6699CC]"I suppose I couldn't cheat off your divinations."[/color] She jokingly teased Lilith, watching the woman chuck a pen at someone in the crowd and beckon them to join the two. [color=6699cc]"You [i]could[/i] make the two of us rich."[/color]

It had been long since she had cracked a joke. Each word she spoke carried joy yet stung all the same. Her gut twisted where her chest rose in quiet laughter. Happiness felt both wrong and right. And yet, Rauni endured the pain for her own sake. She had fought her conscience to be here today. The old memories within the cracked stone haunted her at every corner. They blamed her for her failures. It tore and ate away, but she wouldn't let them break her this day.

Pressing on, Rauni smiled through the pain. Her gaze now met the pen-smacked man, who had since turned back in confusion. It had been a familiar face, one that Rauni had only known for a short stint during her time in the Second Cohort—Rikki Mercator, a former messenger for the Twelfth Legion. 

[color=6699CC]"Though, I wouldn't be quick to make any assumptions. Rumor has it that a certain [i]someone[/i] managed to outsmart Luka."[/color][/color][/indent][/indent][center][color=6699CC]▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅[/color][/center][right][sub][color=6699CC][b]Interacting With[/b][/color][color=white] — [/color][@Sugar and Spite] | Lilith & [@SalemFlame] | Rikki[/sub][/right]