New member?

"What? You want her to join us! She is a bandit!"

"So what? We are all from different backgrounds and we all have darker times that we would rather leave behind…" She looked at me meaningfully.

I instantly felt ashamed. It seems Cleo had realized that I was a thief and she wanted to remind me that I had my own dark past.

"You are right Cleo but I hope you are right about her. What if she betrays us?"

"It is very doubtful but I was never planning to let my guard down. I will keep an eye on her."

"Alright… now about where to stay…"

"What do you mean? We already rented the room."

"Uh… I mean, now that we have money, we could rent separate rooms…"

"Well we don't have a whole lot of money or did you forget that we have to buy magic books for Turek as well? We haven't done a single quest here. We can't squander money on separate rooms. It's not like we haven't been sleeping together so far."

"But there are only 4 beds in this room but we have 5 people."

"We will figure something out, don't worry." She tapped on my head and turned back to go back to the room.

'That's what I am afraid of!' I thought to myself as I followed her in.

Once we entered the room, I saw that Sheila was talking with Leana while Turek was resting on a bed at the end of the room. Is he staying away from Sheila or something?

As soon as we came in, Turek got up and asked us,

"So what do we do now?"

"Well, Sheila will stay with us so we can ask her more questions. I can only assume that Captain Edwards will come back to ask questions as well."

"With us?" Turek looked surprised. I got the feeling that he didn't like Sheila at all.

Cleo looked at me and said "Ren, can you take Sheila outside? I need to talk with Leana and Turek."

I looked at Cleo with surprise but did as she asked. I grabbed Sheila hand and said "Let's go Sheila"

Sheila and I exited the room and soon I was being hugged again. Sheila had bent down and hugged me tightly with my face buried in her breasts. My feet were slightly off the floor. I felt myself being moved up and finally I was face to face with Sheila.

"Aw… you are so adorable! You wanted to be alone with me? Do you want me to spoil you?"

Huh? Didn't Cleo just ask us to go outside? Did she not hear that? We heard faint voices coming from inside since we were still at the closed door.

"Uh.. can we do downstairs?" I didn't want to tell her to just move away from the door. That might be too obvious even for Sheila.

"Sure! Do you want to eat something? Ah.. but I don't have any money!" Sheila started searching her body with her right hand while walking towards the stairs.

"Can you put me down first!" I asked hurriedly.

"Uh… sure" she looked sad as she put me down slowly.

Sigh…. What's with this woman? I get carried by Cleo and Leana sometimes but they never show this kind of enthusiasm. Just what is so fun about picking me up? I hit my hand on my face. I looked up and saw that Sheila was looking at me in confusion.

"Uh.. you don't have to worry about money. I have some here."

We had split up the money so that everyone had some. I have five silver on me and I showed them to Sheila.

"But… is that enough for food?" Sheila tilted her head.

"It should be enough." The room cost us 30 coppers a day but the food wasn't included in it. I had to ask the innkeeper about it but based on my previous experience it shouldn't be too much.