"I see," said Ellaria. "I suppose I can see the potential in this job, albeit dangerous potential."
"It will be a hard nut to crack I have no doubt, but perhaps together..."
The silver plated minotaur scowled at his captain. "You can't be seriously considering working with two pregnant girls?"
"Astrid is an excellent judge of strength, partly due to her Skills."
"But they're pregnant!"
"Oh shut up Avery! Let them join, no really let them join... Especially the centaur."
Two female minotaurs pushed to the front, one beige furred and with a slight black eye, the other with brown fur and gold hoop earrings. It was the two along with Astrid that had originally helped cause the cumsplosion in the AG.
The one with the black eye gave Astrid a dirty look but quickly damped it down in favour of ensuring the two teams worked together.
"We want a competent team to work with on a risky job, now we apparently have one, so pipe down yeah?"
Braddox side eyed the two suspiciously enthusiastic girls. "...Yes. Well, what do you say?"
Ellaria tapped her fingers on the table in thought, a few sparks sputtering to life each time a finger landed.
"We don't exactly have a whole lotta choices captain," said Flora.
"True. I do know of these monsters and I like to believe we are capable. We can do this."
"I'm okay with the job, but c-can we go do the job… now?" said Fey.
Ellaria blinked at her. "Like right now?"
"Yes."
"Well you certainly bring the enthusiasm, we were planning on moving out the day after tomorrow," said the Hammer Horns captain.
Fey turned to Braddox, "I'm a healer, I just won't be able to sleep knowing there are innocent people being taken and likely killed up in those villages, It's just wrong that we'd be waiting needlessly on doing something about that, I'm sorry but that's just how I feel."
"Okay I like this one," said Avery, "Paladins and healers have much in common in that regard, we are for the people, we fight to save those who are in need."
"A healer? Well I see why you might have caught Astrid's interest."
"Something like that," said Astrid while coughing into her fist and avoiding Braddox's eyes.
"I'd be fine with moving up the schedule, I wasn't sure how long it would take to find a band willing to join our cause."
"I'm fine with that too, we were prepared for a job from this morning and that is still very much the case, although we will be skipping out on our arranged accommodations."
"I'm not sure they will mind very much, after what, uhm, happened."
"Still it is the polite thing to send a note. I'll leave that with you three while I go and deal with the contractual details with Braddox here."
The two captains went off to deal with the AGs clerks, and no doubt talk shop about captainy things Fey thought. She realised after a moment that she had no paper or pen to write with and turned to Vivi to ask to borrow some. To her distress it was already far far too late, the vulpine had several sheets of paper out and was furiously scribbling on them, her tongue sticking out the side of her mouth.
"Vivi no! You- what are you drawing?! What are you drawing!"
Flora floated above Vivi's shoulder and peered down.
"Wow, you really do go into the most graphic detail on the private parts Vi."
Fey put her hands on her head.
"We need to make sure they want us there right? So that we can stay for free if we come back," said Vivi, still scribbling, "Well I don't think that is likely to happen with the father, but if we can get both Rina and Tami on our side then it will be two to one."
"So you're drawing what Fey might do to them? Wait, is that a nurse's uniform on that lamia?"
"...yes. It's like flirting, but with drawings, or something."
Astrid leaned over to see and abruptly flushed bright pink and nearly fell out of her chair.
"F-Fey can d-do that-? with her? Oh my gods." She swallowed and put a hand over her mouth, unable to drag her eyes away from the drawings Vivi was quickly churning out.
It didn't take long for the other two female minotaurs to lose to their curiosity and they casually sauntered around the table until they were peering over Vivi's shoulder. Their hands immediately clamped down on the back of her chair and they fully leaned in, crowding over her, their eyes very round.
"S-say, would I be able to get a copy of these by any chance?"
"M-me too!!"
Vivi glanced up at the minotaur leaning over her, practically drooling as she took in the drawings and snatching little glances over at the very uncomfortable and awkward Fey.
"Maybe on the way out."
The remaining three male minotaurs seemed too aloof to investigate what it was that had attracted the female minotaurs attention, that is apart from Averys who was giving them a continual death stare.
It wasn't long before Vivi had finished, including making several copies which the three female minotaurs guiltily hid about their persons, quickly stuffing the paper away and pretending they had nothing to do with anything that may or may not have transpired with some rumoured drawings or other.
Flora caught the attention of a message runner, her idea of catching attention meant that the runner was suddenly catapulted into the air mid run with a scream, floated over to their table, and then plopped down in front of the band. Vivi shoved two envelopes into his hands along with some coins and told him to go find Tami and Rina. The messenger seemed all too happy to get away from Flora.
Then the captains returned and the bands found themselves moving out. The minotaurs collected several rucksacks which Ellaria offered to put in her dimensional bag to the minotaur's delight. It was rare that adventurers could skip out on lugging around heavy camping gear.