Chris is approached with a request.

Before he could get far from the market, Chris was stopped by someone tapping his shoulder.

“Excuse me!” The voice said, clearly feminine. Chris turned around to adess the person that tried to get his attention. His eyes met a well built woman, wielding a warhammer on her back, wearing some Kul’Tiran armor. Her head was covered with wild dark brown hair, not long but neither short. Her face was youthful and relatively pretty framed in the said hair.

Chris gave the woman an innocent smile, hoping its not a Kul’Tiran enforcer trying to catch him and deport him, or worse, imprison him with the rest of the alliance visitors that were captured beforehand. “Excuse me, miss, why is it that you are stopping me?”. He asked carefully, trying to be as polite as he can, hoping that what happened in the market wasn’t a fluke.

“Um’ yes, I was looking to recruit you to help me break into Tol’Dagor and get the Alliance emissary from there…” She stopped herself after finishing explaining already anyway, gasping and covering her mouth with her hand looking around for prying eyes, but gladly they stopped away from anyone who may have overheard them.

Chris blinked twice, then did that again, standing stunned both at the fact that the nice way of asking worked as well as the brazen plan. Lowering his voice, he asked. “And if I may ask, what would be my role in it?”

Matching his voice, the woman responded. “Me and my partner need a cover story and having a tradesman like you pretend to report some contraband being ditched from the ship and sending us off in a rowboat. Then we come back and talk to you for a bit, pretending you check if we found the right thing. Just in case so no one would ask questions.”

Chris nodded along, tilting his head to the side mid nod at the last mention, showing expression of appreciation of the ingenuity of the plan. Honestly, it sounded low risk, easy reward… speaking of which.”And what do I… Ehm” He was quick to correct himself. “And what could I get in return?”

“Well… I was mostly thinking you would do it for the Alliance, I could pay you a small gold compensation.” The girl fidgeted worriedly. Now that Chris had a closer look, he noticed that she couldn’t be older than 22, which isn’t far off from his 25. She looked quite appealing, and Chris had to stop himself from grinning as a thought passed his head.

“No problem, miss. Would you mind if I suggest that you just give me anything I ask for in return for my help?” Chris asked, he was dry in his throat now, realizing that up to now it may have just been a coincidence and at best he earned himself a kick in the crotch, and considering that the girl before him wore plate boots that would be painful.

“Hmm. That sounds fair…” The woman thought about it and shrugged.

“Alright, we have a deal then! My name is Chris, what’s your name miss…?”

“Taelia, nice to make your acquaintance, Chris.” She smiled at him, he enjoyed the smile.

Now, will Chris get a deposit from Taelia or wait for his payment after the job is done to have more time with it? Who knows, maybe meeting the Alliance emissary would be a nice acquaintance to make!

A/N: Who would be the emissary? What race would they be? Hmmm...