Tomorrow, 8:00 AM, The Drunken Adventurer, Katherinsand.
Orisa walked downstairs, her eyes are still drowsy and her head still up semi-dreaming about herself and her sister having fun at the beach.
Ahh, yes, the beaches of Isijam. The so called 'hidden jewel of the world'. She remember the time, the good times she had with her sister. Good times, good times.
She walked towards an empty table, a bit drowsy from her sleep, she ordered a cup of water and some breakfast. As she was waiting for her meal though. She noticed that someone is looking at her. Call it a feeling, but that noblewoman (her clothes suggested someone of nobility) should not be sitting down at an old, run down tavern like this.
She eyed the woman. And the woman turned to her, realizing her mistake, Orisa turned her face back to the table. Timing was on her side though, as the server served her some scrambled eggs, an assorted combination of cheese, and a bunch of weird elongated meat things on the side. Is this what the people here call breakfast? well, it looks tasty enough.
"Orisa Ngkazikiwe. Isn't it?"
She turned her head to the blonde woman. Now looking at her, exuding no emotion whatsoever.
"Okay, who are you?"
"I'm just an observer. Pardon me, but something tells me that you have great potential to be an adventurer."
Now Orisa is really nervous. She just got a quest from a mysterious hooded figure, and now some noblewoman sensed some 'potential' in her? what in the world?!?
"Don't worry, I won't be here for too long. I've got matters to attend elsewhere. First off, good luck on your quest, and secondly, I'm here to give you this."
She walked towards the Far Western woman, and placed a weird pendant on the table.
Now Orisa is really agitated. There's this weird noblewoman she didn't know of, and suddenly she's gifting her gifts all of a sudden?
"Yo lady, what in god's name are you doing?" She asked.
"Making insurance policies." She replied. Further confusing the western woman. "Take that necklace with you. When you are in trouble, channel all your thoughts into that necklace, help will come."
Orisa turned her head towards the necklace, It's certainly a weird design, is it some sort of poison or something? She smells it, touches it, and looks at it intensely, she turned her head upwards again, about to ask the woman, but Orisa saw the noblewoman exiting the front door.
Insurance policies? necklaces? that woman suddenly giving her something so very valuable out of nowhere? Orisa couldn't stand anymore. So she rushed outside, intending to confront the mysterious woman. She walked towards the front door, the very same door where that woman was exiting, and the moment she walked outside, the woman is nowhere to be seen.
She spent sometime searching for her. To no avail, as the moments pass, her frustration only grew and grew. Eventually, Orisa returned back to the tavern and finished her breakfast. Feeling ever so confused and frustrated.
Just in time though, for the others to walk downstairs and meet her.