Re: Pheonix's Thread (Pheonix Alugere)
The man listened through her words patiently, then replied, "Flaqus," by way of introduction. "If you want Nest, you'll have to head down to the lagoon -- she tends to sleep down that way. I can show you, for sure." Smiling at the redhead, he added, "of course Ozen would be the first woman you meet, here. She has a way of sniffing out good candidates. This is Spur, by the way," he introduced the daemon about his neck. The creature, apparently less shy than Hunt, lifted its head to regard Pheonix, though it was hard to tell how it was seeing her, given that it didn't have eyes!
Holding his hand out to point to a path that sloped down from this tier to the next, he began ambling that direction, eyes half on the ground and half on Pheonix. "How things usually work around here is, if you're planning on sleeping here and calling this place your home, whenever you gain packages like that," he pointed to her bundle, "the patron adds them to a cache so that everyone gets a share... it's kind of a trade-off for shelter and always having someone at your back." Pausing, then chuckling, he added, "or on your back, Spur wants to say."
As they went down two tiers, the bare stone floor was replaced by what seemed like a tropical jungle. The temperature was even warmer down here than it was up around where Pheonix had seen humans gathering, and tree trunks loomed on either side of the path they were taking. She could see movement in both the trees and the underbrush, though she couldn't make out what was doing the moving! Flaqus was continuing, "if you end up on your own, it's good to ask for a bag to carry your belongings... you can tell who's a drifter by how much they're carrying with them."