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New Friends and Old

Beatrice smiles as the party goes up to their rooms for the first time. As she hears their footsteps settle into their rooms, she takes a step back.

"Arorin, hon," she calls over to the stage where Arorin was juggling knives. "Can you watch the bar for a second?"

"Sure thing, Bea," he responds, smiling. He finishes a joke he was telling to some patrons, and they all laugh as he heads over to the bar.

Beatrice steps through the door behind her into her personal area. She heads into her room and raises a floorboard, taking out a small box.

She puts a hand on the cover and takes a breath.

"So I've got a couple weeks left, huh?" she says to herself as she opens it up.

Inside, she reveals a picture, similar to her adventuring party picture. Her hand obscures most of the photo, but you see a Young Beatrice alongside the Heroes of Stone.

She stares at it for a while, her smile slowly fading as if lost in a memory.