This wasn't quite one of those adventures; but you could only be so bad and so poor, and Coventina's coffers were drawing a disappointed frown to her pretty face. It wasn't as if she minded using other people for their bank accounts, and Skald would foot any tab she needed, but there was something to be said of a fine line between domination and dependence. She wasn't quick to give up either. If all she had to do was clear a ridiculous little exercise and walk away with both jewels and some good-quality bonding time, well ... She'd ghost a smile to Mona, slowly taking the space at the base of their cliff with their shadows cast from nearby streetlights at her whims. She stirred her hand through the air, displacing the darkness, and the two were soon alone with each other. "I don't cook ... as I imagine you aren't much of one yourself, mm?" She'd click her tongue, an endlessly shrouded fascination in her amber gaze, and she'd cast around to the shapes of people busying themselves within the resort at night. "But I'm sure I can find us something. What do you say? One little trip for groceries up the mountain?"
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