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"Hello! Welcome to Green Nest Tavern!" A beautiful,young Elven Bartender calls out as the bell on the front door chimes and in walks a young looking Human Girl. Her black hair hung around her shoulders and she wore a katana blade on her waist.

All eyes went to the girl as she walked up to the bar and took a seat. "Can I help you ma'am .. we don't see many Humans around this area... are you traveling?" The bartender asked with a cheery tone in her voice.

"You can say that" The young girl said " I'm actually trying to find some people.. I figured a bar is a good place to get some information"

"Oh really... Well i'm afraid we haven't had many travelers pass by for a while.." The Bartender said with a sad sigh "The creature population has been growing in this area lately so people are afraid "

"Well .. If I can find who I'm looking for we might just be able to fix that for you" The young girl said with a almost cocky smile "oh .. can I get a drink.. anything will do"

The bartender tilted her head curiously as she grabbed a glass and started to pur the girl a drink "Okay you've peaked my curiosity.. how are you going to fix the creature problem.. i mean your just a girl" She said as she slid the drink across the counter

"well" the young girl started but was cut off by the chime of the front door opening. She turned to look at the door and smiled "Lucky me.. Theres one now"

Walking in tavern, the man height, standing at 6'4, alone was enough to turn a few heads. Walking straight to the bar Shakura sat down at the bar a chair in-between him and the being who had walked in before him. "Waiter...Two rounds." "And how will you pay?" Slapping a wanted poster on counter, Shakura stood up. The bartender was speechless.

The tavern wasn't nearly as exciting as he had hoped.

After a long day of tending to his gardens, there had been hope of seeing some sort of ruckus break out across the tidy area. A fight of some sort, or even an argument-Eryn loved watching others work out their conflicts, so long as they didn't end in serious injury. Eryn appeared as a simple human male, with small patches of thin bark appearing almost like scales along bits of his body. He sat in a far corner of the establishment, watching the patrons and chuckling at Zatana as she talked to the elven bartender. She was crazy to think they would simply accept an explanation like that-and equally crazy to think that he would just hop up and shout out who he was like Shakura had done.

Eryn sighed, and sipped at his water, ready (if he had to) to make a quick and clean exit. Revealing your true identity (Especially as a sin) was generally something he considered unwise, and yet-he wasn't surprised in the slightest that it was Shakura who had done just that.

Zatana's eyes followed Shakura as he walked up to the bar "Subtle as ever i see Shakura" She said as she took a sip from her own drink. She then looked up at the bartender and smiled "Just put his drinks on my Tab, I'll cover it"

The bartender nodded and smiled back at Zatana before Briefly looking at the very intimidating Tall man. "comeing right up" She said as she grabbed to shot glasses and poured in the liquor.

"So Shakura" Zatanna said as she turned around in her chaired and leaned her back on the bar. "what have you been up to all these years?" She asked as her eyes started to scan the rest of the tavern.

Retaking his seat, Shakura picked up the wanted poster of the slide counter. Pointing at an outrageously large man tucked off in the back, his face matched the poster. And Shakura had his number. Tucking the page within his inner layer of jacketing, he turned to the woman as casually as if nothing had happened. "You know, mercenary work here and there to pay for lodging food etc. And still picking off strays somewhere in-between. And yourself?.... "That blade, is she new?"

It wasn't going to be an easy getaway, if anyone saw the three of them and recognized who they once were. With a slight grin Eryn looked over at Shakura and sighed.

Or if they recognize who one of us still is, by the looks of it.

Shakura seemed to have his eye on someone sitting near Eryn, and he wasn't going to have anyone interrupting his drink. With a quiet and smooth motion, the human-esque dryad stood, and moved to a place closer to the front. The elf who ran the bar knew him rather well, so he caught no flak over it- besides, for an elven place such as this having a dryad frequenting was something of an honor, or so he had heard.

"What this old thing" Zatana said as she took her sword off her hip and held it up " The blade has been reforged a few times but the metal, the hilt and the sheath are the same ones I've always had" She said

She unsheathed the blade a little to admire the edge before returning it to her waist. She then looked over and gave Eryn a small recognizable Grin but she said no words. They would lock eyes for a moment before Zatan turned back around towards the bar.

"So Shakura, Who's the wanted poster for?" She questioned as she took another swig of her drink.

Lowering his voice a little he just played with his drink as he forbade himself from alcohol, "Honestly it a reward for a cave troll that's been lingering about in these parts. It's said to have attacked traveling merchants and has been ravaging crops, but cases crippling this town economy. The reward as you could guess was more than enough for a few beverage. But that jack rabbit over there....he taken the same job so there in lies my dilemma. A small drunken wager, no big. Too be honest I...." Ripped from his train of thought and rambling Shakura turned his head a half 45° angle to the side, giving two slight sniffs at the air. (A very strong almost embedded woodland scent... saturated in mystical essence.) Shakura reduced. "Eryn??"

Dammit. He caught me.

The thought was one quickly finished and disposed of, but Eryn couldn't help but let it read through. The place was going to become the base of a brawl probably quickly finished, but Shakura wasn't one for battles with easy cleanup. Or- not as he remembered.

"Yeah." he muttered. "Eryn."

"Looking good old friend" zatana said as she looked over at Eryn again. "Ya know it was alot easier finding you then i thought?" She said as she got up from her chair and waked over to him. "then again a dryad that travels around is pretty rare.. so It's to be expected that i would find some leads.. but to think I would just walk into the same Tavern that you happen to be in.. I guess I'm pretty lucky"

"Have you been keeping track of the creature population lately?" She asked in a whisper. "We may have a problem... I've heard rumors the Lab was reactivated"

Shakura interested in their talk, he couldn't just invite himself over. Instead to just kept his back to the situation listening in with heightened sense of hearing, while dabbling at his drink ever so often....