☀️ Arselia and Akonia

"But I won't treat you any worse, don't even doubt it," he said with conviction, breaking free from his philosophical reverie. "I wasn't raised that way."

"Tell me, do you miss the sea? Would you ever want to go sailing again? Maybe not as a captain, but as a passenger? Sorry if that sounds too straightforward, but I'm an emotionless undead, what can you expect..."

Realizing she has time, Beata rushes to Ideal to see Penelope, or Penny, as she called her exclusively behind her back and only in conversations with Guion – she found the contrast between the lighthearted nickname and the serious image amusing, but she definitely didn't want to find out how the owner of that image would react to such a nickname.

"It will be a circus performance in the port district. Acrobats, fire shows, magicians – everyone we can find. We want to somehow cheer up the city's residents and give them a positive boost after everything that has happened, just entertain people a little. And we definitely need musical accompaniment," he said, spreading his hands and smiling. "The mood of the audience depends on the musician, perhaps more than anything else, and at Melodia, they advised me to contact you when I asked where I could find a good musician. To be honest, our event budget is modest, but payment for your work is definitely included."

"There are all sorts of monsters there. And also stone people. And there are also mages and old men," he roughly outlines the scope of the work, but without delving into the context and background of the raid. "But we have a lot of people coming with us, so it's not a problem. We'll give them such a beating that they'll regret crawling out of the depths of Anush."