Taim had been standing against the wall, being a smart thief and making himself invisible. Now he headed back into the building, seeing the perfect chance to escape. They wouldn't be back for a while, and this /was/ a thieve's den. There had to be /something/ of monetary value in here.

{OOC} note: Taim is headed for wherever Ark and Thid are. feel free to run into him. {/OOC}

Vace smiled, "Looks like someone should work on their sword skills a bit," He said, reaching for some rags he had for just this purpose, when he suddenly realized his left arm didn't want to move. He looked at it and saw one of the bandit leaders knives sticking out of it, neatly enbedded in the shoulder. "Now that's going to sting when the adrenaline wears off," Vase mumbled, getting the rags out with his other arm and giving half of them to Ark, and preparing to use the other half on himself.

Cesia sat in the room that Cid had lead them to, pretty much alone. "Man, I really screwed that one up..." She mentally kicked herself for being so unprepared. Sure, she had taken several self-defence classes, but just training was nothing compaired to real battle, she discovered. She looked down at the knives, "What's the point in having a weapon if you can't even defend yourself." She said angrily. <Whatever happens... I'm not going to let myself be so helpless again...> She vowed.

"Don't be so hard on yourself... At least you could have defended yourself if you really needed to." Dawn walked over and put her hand on Cesia's shoulder. "At least you have weapons. I don't even have that really."

She turned around to hearing someone come in, and found that it was Lynx. After hearing of all that had happened, she started to follow the cat out. "I may not be able to fight like the others, but in my own way I'm useful... Just like you. If you hadn't have warned us about the fire, who knows what might have happened."

Dawn stopped, noticing a slightly impatience stance coming from the cat. "Right... I'm gonna go and see if I can't help the others now." She left the small room, letting Lynx lead her back to where the rest of the group was.

Lynx stopped before leaving the room, and turned to Cid. "Our cover?"

((i'm not gonna complain much, but cesia and dawn should know that kalimare was talking to them))

Kalimare simply grunted at the fact that he was ignored, but decided to let it go considering that it would be unfair for him to do anything to harm them. He realized what he was thinking and then pushed the thought from his mind. Kalimare then decided to change the thoughts to something more useful. He walked next to Cesia.

"If you would like, when we have actual time to, I could teach you how to defend yourself fully. And I could teach you how to turn those daggers into an instant kill weapon. If you want to, that is."

Kalimare about smiled, then realized his sharp disgusting teeth would have turned her away from such an offer. He knew enough about public types like her that being dirty wasn't always the best.

(OOC: whoops, sorry, I must have missed your post. ^^;; )

Cesia looked up at Kalimare, "Really? You'd help me?" She smiled, then frowned a bit, "I've already had training with weapons, so I know how to handle myself in basic combat, but it was just... the inexperience with real combat that slowed me down... So I don't know if training could help me deal with that any better." She smiled wistfully.

Lynx again did the cat version of a sigh. He walked over to Cesia and rubbed against her leg, to get her attention. "How about this. You come with me and Dawn to go heal the wounded. I'm not going outside without someone with a weapon. It will be three bandits at most if we get attacked, you should be able to stay calm in that situation."

"Fine go apply aid to our number. Where is the bandit leader? I want to begin interogating him as soon as he wakes up." Cid said. He removed his helmet.

Cesia looked down at the cat and stroked his back once, out of habit, "Oh alright. I'll make myself useful somehow." She got up and grabbed her knives as she, Dawn, who was waiting for them at the doorway, and Lynx headed out to find the wounded party members, Lynx leading them, since it seemed he knew a little more about their surroundings than Dawn or Cesia did.

"So where and who are the wounded ones?"