Game night

"You see a bunch of goblins guarding the gnome's crystal gate...", Karl felt well in the role of a dungeon master. He has already led them through the lands of the Forest King and has allowed them to contribute frequently to forge their ties, "What do you do next?"

"Maybe I will distract them, and you, since you're the fastest, will run to the gate", Charlotte pointed a finger at Ritter, as she counted something on the sheet of paper. Despite her petite appearance and being a main cheerleader on the campus, the girl was really wise and familiar with mathematics, breaking all stereotypes about blondes, "You have little chance of taking them down with a bow, and in this way, we at least achieve our goal before time runs out on the gnome's crystal hourglass."

Ross nodded to her and began choosing racial skills that would help him in his new task. Felix handed his girlfriend the dices, enjoying the fact, that he had drawn her into an addiction to role-playing games, which he shared himself. Out of all company, only Edana looked disengaged, leaning on one arm with bored face.

"I don't understand...", Engel said, and everyone stopped and glared at her, because those were her first words in a long time. The girl smacked with her fingertip a figurine of a hairy giant in a loincloth and with a huge hammer, "Lottie, why are you playing as a big savage guy? I thought Felix would want to play a blunt beefcake like in real life, not you."

"This is a female, Dana. Behemoth women are strong and even bigger than males", Hankel spoke matter-of-factly, showing her stats to the friend. She looked like a super cute schoolgirl bragging to her mother, "We needed someone really tough and capable of being a tank for the team."

"I get it, but why didn't you swap characters with your boyfriend?", Edana pointed with both hands at the adorable little fairy standing on the map, as if she wanted to emphasize her wonderment.

"Because I play as the female and he plays as the male", Charlotte's words did not dispel any Engel's doubts, on the contrary, now she began to wonder how something so girly could actually be a dude, "We didn't want to play as opposite sexes, because that would be weird to roleplay."

"That would be weird to roleplay? And isn't it weirder that female behemoth looks like a caveman and a male fairy looks like a little lass?", Edana raised her voice impatiently. Engel did not know how else to explain her point of view, so she resorted to simple mockery, "Forgive me for not liking this world, but it's just so stupid."

"And forgive me that not every woman has to look like a Barbie, or other marketing photoshops, that end up on the covers of magazines", Charlotte rose with emotions, as she got up from the table with ire. Everyone in the gathering understood what infuriated the former Miss Fatty from elementary school, even her best friend, who participated in her fight with the long gone overweight, "Women can be tall and strong, as well as small and weak. There's nothing wrong with it. Who if not you should understand that?"

"Sorry, I just meant that...", Hankel wasn't listening. She put her palm over the eyes, so that no one would see her tears and ran upstairs. Edana turned the head after her, but did not dare to follow further.

"Well, thanks Dana. You know how to end a nice evening", Kraus closed the dungeon master's textbook and looked out the window at the raging storm. Lightning pounded as hard as if Thor himself was fighting with Zeus, "I have prepared you places to sleep where usual. Better get some pots from the kitchen, because the roof will probably leak."