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That's all you could get out of her but that information will be useful later when you explore.
"My payment is. Done. You may. Tell your friends. What I spoke." Svet begins to exit the shop with her daughter in tow. "I will tell. My village about you. What are your names?"
"QUENTIN." "Alexis. Pleasure to meet you." "Wendy. You better remember it, keh." "Ashley. Thank you for helping us." "Le-Lex."
Svet pauses right after she squeezes through the wide open frame where there was once the cafe's window. "Lex? Sounds familiar."
"Yeah. Your name sounds familiar too." Lex's eyes seem to be unfocused, as if he's trying to remember something he should.
"WHAT IS YOUR DAUGHTER'S NAME?" Quentin seems to pick up on something that your other group hasn't. "FOR CLARIFICATION."
"Ele." You doubt you'll actually have to remember that name. Three letters...it seems like the graverobbers keep short and to the point names.
>29!
Something about Lex's physique is bothering you now that you look at it. He's at least a solid eight feet tall and the amount of bulk and muscle he has seems...unnatural. You brushed it off before as City Shenanigans but humans should NOT be built like this.
[SEEKER OF THE CITY] The tallest recorded human was 8'11" tall. He had crippling medical issues that made walking around incredibly hard and his body began to fall apart into itself, dying at 22. Lex shows NONE of those and is at 22 as well, if not older.
The way his muscles are packed together underneath the thick layers of clothing and winter apparel are so tightly knitted together, it's almost like they form a protective layer of thick flesh over his body. It's subtle enough and City tech is radical enough where most people just ignore it but you know the only augment he has is tattoos. He was this bulky LONG before he had them.
And when you saw him smile a moment ago...<span class="mu-b">two of his lower canines are longer than a human's should be.</span>
<<span class="mu-b">"Ele, huh? At least she has a mother and a father, hopefully, to raise her. I can't even remember my mother's face.</span>>
"Lex? Who's your dad?"
Lex snaps his attention over to you. "Some random scumbag from District 7. Never learnt his name. Six foot something, always wore a wife beater and had a thick beard, it's been like 15 years since I've seen him."
So his dad is a human but he doesn't know his mother. And Svet seems to recognize his name and her daughter recognized his smell.
"That man sounds. Familiar." Svet whispers to herself. "District 7. Sounds familiar. I was there when I was. Wandering. I do not try to think about. What I did there."
Oh, no, oh no. This may complicate things depending on how Graverobbers view that kind of interspecies mingling or how others might view it. Your other allies quickly begin to pick up on the implication here.
<span class="mu-b">A half breed. Half human, half Graverobber.</span> No wonder why he's built like that if even a mere child is almost around your size.
