try not to lose those daggers too, hey?"

Venus turned back toward Hagran, giving him an excellent side profile as she looked back at him. His eyes dropped to her chest briefly, getting one last brief glimpse of her pink nubs peeking over her blouse as she favored him with one last smile. "I won't, Hagran. And if I do, I know where to come for more..." Her voice trailed off, a slightly seductive tone tinging the end of her sentence.

As Venus turned away from Hagran, she couldn't help but smirk a bit at Hagran's flabbergasted expression as she sauntered out the door into the darkening evening. She couldn't deny the twinge of excitement, and...something else, an undercurrent that she couldn't quite place.

Her thoughts were interrupted when her still-bare left foot hit the cobblestone street, rudely reminding her that not only was she still carrying her ruined sandal, her nipples were still on display to everyone on the street. A sudden flush overtook her again, this one not of excitement, but of embarrassment. Why had this seemed such a good idea?

As conflicting emotions rolled through her she crossed her arms over her chest, concealing her exposed nipples from public eye. Her brown eyes searched for someplace she could duck into to alter her outfit without people seeing, settling on a nearby alleyway almost immediately. Why the hell had she done something this...this obscene? She pushed the thought to the back of her mind. Concealment, fix her outfit, then ask questions.

She made for it, acutely aware of the clap-slap of her feet against the cobblestones, and how awkward she must look. As she stepped into the alleyway, the cobblestones giving way to dirt beneath her feet, she breathed a faint sigh of relief, one which hitched in her throat as she almost ran into a wiry man, maybe a few inches taller than her, with a hood over his face.

"Hey, baby, you-" His sentence was abruptly cut off by one of Venus' dagger flashing to his throat, pressing against it as she growled "Get lost" at him, even as she pressed her way past him. He simply stood here, hands raised, as she disappeared deeper into the alley.

A few winding turns later, she found herself at a dead-end in the alley, in a place where no windows or doors opened into it, as it ended against Namina's wall. Finally alone, and out of the public eye, she released that pent-up relieved sigh. She tugged the neckline of her blouse over her nipples, cursing how low it was cut as she did so. Before she could do anything about that, something caught her eye, interrupting her thoughts yet again.

The earth at the end of the alley was overturned, piled around a black pit beneath the wall. Her gut twinged, the hairs rising on the back of her neck, as a sibilant hiss rose from the pit. Lizardman attack tunnel.

Instinct took over. As the first lizardman's head popped out of the tunnel, she pulled her other dagger from it's sheath, her mind churning over her limited options.