Slightly Off Course

*Raven blinked at the sky. It was a clear and peaceful day. She continued to stare until she got a feeling in her leg. A small bird had taken an interest in her shoelace. Raven continues to look as the bird tries to eat her shoelace. Raven comes to her senses and kicks the bird away. She tries to stand up, but stumbles as a loose tile slips beneath her foot. She moves gingerly to the edge, and peers at the ground below. She boggles down at the ground and moves away quickly. Breathing heavily she looks around the roof*

*Raven gingerly moves to the chimmney of the pub and rests against it. Attempting to calm herself down and think straight, Raven notices a glint in the corner of her eye. She instantly checks her pockets. The bottle of Sickness Pills had fallen out her pocket, and now lies in the gutter! Raven gingerly moves her way across the roof, one hand on the chimney, the other outstretched to reach the bottle. The roof, still being slightly damp, slips away beneath Raven and two more tiles fall to the ground. Raven balances herself near the edge, and manages to fall backward onto the roof into a sitting position. Breathing a sigh of relief she picks up the Sickness Pills, which are now within easy reach. She looks at the bottle and smiles. What she doesn't notice is that when she slipped, some of the stones that make up the chimney support, which she had been holding onto, had come away! Raven had but a few moments of realisation as she falls from the roof. Almost reflexively, she grabs hold of the gutter with one hand, and the bottle in the other. The chimney stack falls to the ground beneath her. The wet guttering slowly slips beneath her fingers*

*Raven colappses onto the floor and stares at Tom.*

"That... that is the second time you have saved me."

*She peeks out of the window down at the ground, at where the chimney had now fallen. Some of the patrons have come to analyse the damage*

"Oh no.. now i've really done it"

*She sets the Sickness pills bottle on the side. It is slightly broken in places, but other wise intact. She puts the detection powder next to it. The powder seems to glow a bit, but after what has happened Raven does not notice it, or at least pays it no heed.*

"Catherine? No, she wasn't there. I talked to...

*Raven pauses for a few seconds*

"Some.. chinese guy. But I recognised him. I don't know where from, I don't know how. But I did. I think I hit him. There was a spyglass on his stall, but it didn't work. Then.. then I met a strange guy, who traded a bottle of 'Lockpick' for showing me to a trader who could help me. I got these from him. He was strange, mexican guy, I think..."

*Raven pictures the strange man in her head..*

"I didn't get to see much of him.. he was tall, male.. er.. well spoken too. Wore dark clothes.. he always walked in the shadows, like they followed him or something. Oh, and I met him in an alleyway, just aside from Catherine's stall."

*Raven does not notice the brick, and is too fixated on Tom's bemused expression to notice him looking behind her at the hovering brick*

"I thought he was a strange person, I even thought about running, but Treguard told me to "Trust Until Given Reason Not To"."

"He wore a long multicoloured.. shoulder.. thing.. and a large twirly moustace. He spoke in a.. mexican accent."

*Raven pauses for a moment*

"I'll admit, I dont actaully remember much about him. I guess I.. sorta went out on a stereotypical moment "