Ruedo lets out a soft sigh.
The Elf smiled, "Lela, pleasant to meet you Katie." Turning to her male guardian, "And you are?"
She giggles, "Bert" She says nodding in his direction. She wouldn't open up completely, but she didn't feel that Lela posed an immediate threat. Besides...no one ever said she couldn't talk, so she had no way of knowing anyways. She would just have to try really hard not to say anything stupid and give them away. Not until she knew more about Lela.
Subtly adjusting so that her clothing shifts to present a substantially deepened décolletage, Ravan in her guise moves to a seat at the bar next to the older soldier, flashing him a pleasant smile as she orders a drink.
"I can speak for myself, Katie," Bert says.
Her smile turns into a pout, "Sowry."
The older soldier smiled back, "Good mornin' Miss."
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Setting Katie down, "Pleasure to formally meet you both, but I must be off. Hopefully we'll meet again soon." With that she turned and walked away.
She just shakes her head, puzzled by why she should feel so familiar to her. Looking at Ruedo she just kinda shrugs as she points to the shop the "elf" had just come out of, "Wanna go in?"
"Why not?" Bert responds, taking Katie's hand.
She just smiles up at him as they walk into the shop together.
As the pair walk into the shop, they see all sorts of odds and ends. Most make little sense to Eri, but Ruedo recognizes most as material spell components.
Bert turns to Katie. "This shop might be more useful to me than you."
She nods, "Okay, I don't touch." She says as she takes her hand out of his, and puts both of her hands in her pockets while wrinkling her nose at all the strange smells.
"Good morning, Sir" she says locking eyes with him for just a moment before looking down slightly with a hint of a blush coming to her face.
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The Old soldier smiled back, "I don't believe I've seen you around here before. You new in town?"
Ruedo browses for a few minutes before selecting several scrolls.
Katie just stays quiet next to Bert as he goes through the shop, keeping her hands in the pockets of the dress she wears so she doesn't touch anything.
You managed to find a fair amount of the scrolls you're looking for.
Bert is unimpressed by the paltry selection, but shrugs to himself. It's better than nothing, I suppose.
He takes the ten scrolls to the counter.
Katie sighs as she follows him up to the counter. It was boring in the shop and nothing here was interesting to her in the slightest.
With a glance at Katie, Bert nods. "Almost done."
She nods back and says in her younger sounding voice a bit quietly, "Okay." As her eyes wonder over the things in the shop.
"Yes...uhm..yes I am actually. I've only been here a few days. From what Ive seen of it so far, it's a pretty nice town." she replies brushing a lock of hair behind her ear.
"That'll be four hundred seventy-five gold." The Shopkeeper said to Bert.
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The old soldier shrugged, "It has it's charms. Have you been up to the Ballentyne?"
Ruedo digs out the requested gold from his bag and places it on the counter. "Thank you."
She remains quiet as he purchases his supplies.
"No I haven't actually, though I've heard it mentioned." she responds wide eyed. "I'd love to see what everyone is talking about sometime."
The old soldier finished his drink, "I could show you if you'd like. It's impressive, the first line of defense against the bugbears, and the other threats from the North."
"Oh I'd be honored." Theodora gushes, almost giddy with excitement. "It sounds very impressive!" she says wrapping both of her arms around the old soldier's bicep.
After paying for the scrolls and stowing them in his bag, Bert takes Katie's hand and heads outside. "Anything else you'd like to do or should we head back for now?"
Her mind still occupied with the strange elf lady that wasn't an elf she sort of sighs as she shrugs, "Just look around? Unless you busy?" She says as she motions towards his pack, bulging with all the scrolls he would have to study, "Either okay." She tries to keep her sentences simple and close to what a child of her age might say, just in case anyone was paying them any attention.
Finishing his drink, "I could take you up today, if you have no other plans."
Ruedo shrugs. "There's not much else I can figure out to do without hearing from the others."
She sighs and nods, "Okay...go back."
Ruedo heads back to the inn with Eri.
The two of you see Theodora talking to, what looks like, an old soldier.
Not wanting to disturb her friend while she was...working, Eri keeps walking with Ruedo in their disguises while casting a "normal" curious glance her way before continuing on with Ruedo. She didn't know where he wanted to go to study his scrolls, so she just continued to hold his hand so he could lead her to where he wanted to go. He was supposed to be in charge of her anyways. She kind of giggles to herself at the thought. She couldn't wait until she could put this disguise away and go back to being herself again.
Ruedo raises an eyebrow but goes to find a table to sit. "Are you hungry, Katie?"
Taking the bag of rapidly dwindling cookies out of her back pack she puts them on the table and sighs, "Food food? No more cookies?" She asks a bit more quietly with so many people around, as her stomach makes a distinctly unhappy gurgling noise. She could just play it off as she was uncomfortable talking around people she didn't really know.
"None that could even begin to compare." Theodora says giving him a dazzling smile. "I'm Theodora."
"Yes, actual food."
She gets a slightly sad look on her face, but it turns into one of discomfort as her stomach makes another noise. Holding her arms over her belly she nods, "No more cookies. Ummmm.....soup?" She asks as she thinks about the time of day and what her most likely choices might be.
Tugging on his sleeve to get his attention she says, "Bert? Soup Bert?" Just in case he didn't hear her the first time, while casting glances every so often around the room.
"Yes, Katie," Bert says, flagging down a server.
Coming to Bert, "What can I get you?"
"What sorts of soup do you have today?" Bert asks.
"We really don't have much of a soup, it's more of a stew made from beef," The serving girl answered.
"Is that alright, Katie?"