Reprise! Act 1!

[Carthrat]

"A bit, but I was thinking bringing down some game," replies Carthrat. "Champion hunter, that's me."

[Rezantis]

Relm chewed thoughtfully on some cheese as she sized Carthrat up again.

"You don't look like the woodsy type."

[Carthrat]

"So what gender was I again?" replies Carthrat, cheerily.

[Rezantis]

"You never even confirmed that you had one," Relm deadpanned.

[Carthrat]

"That's true, y'know," replies Carthrat. "Oh well. What I meant was, apperances can be decieving.

But in this case, you're absolutely right, I'm no woodswoman. Nonetheless, I *will* be providing, uh, food. Of some description, anyway."

[Rezantis]

"Well, actually, since we should be hitting a river around tomorrow lunchtime, I was going to get some fish.  How about the night after?"

There was a short pause.

"Oh, and ask me before you eat any berries you find, okay?  You might already know that, but there are lots of people who don't."  Relm rolled her eyes.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat ponders. "Well, whatever works," she says, munching away.

"So.. what was your name again?" she asks, sheepishly.

[Rezantis]

Relm adopted a serious expression.

"I am Relm Tyrean, Sorceress of the Seventh Circle, Mistress of both Waves and Thunder, Apprentice of the Blackened Cloak, beloved sister of the Wind Dragon of Kyrenith, Walker of Planes and one of the Master Elementalists of Kyrenith!"

That might have worked better if she wasn't so obviously trying to hold back laughter.

[Carthrat]

"What, really?" replies Carthrat, wide-eyed.

[Rezantis]

Relm nodded seriously.

"Yes, really."

[Carthrat]

"Oh? Well, I'm Karthuratsu Tanewaki of, uh, nowhere in particular, with no particular profession, no career options, and no family or friends," Carthrat replies, nodding. "And I've heard of you, it was like in the last town. But they didn't say all that stuff, they said.. well, maybe you don't wanna hear."

[Rezantis]

Relm rolled her eyes and chewed on some more cheese before answering.

"Yeah, well, considering that nobody in that dump of a town had heard of me, and that you were in the town for all of five minutes before a fight broke out . . ."

[Carthrat]

"Oh, it wasn't that town, it was the town before that town," replies Carthrat. "Called you, the, um, well.. Bitch-Queen, I think it was. They seemed to mean it, especially that public official guy."

[Rezantis]

"Uh-huh.  And what town would that have been?"

Relm arched an eyebrow skeptically.

[Carthrat]

"Began with a J," replies Carthrat. "Ended with a K, that's all I remember. I was, uh, on the run."