The Calm Before The Storm

He watched the woman take a plate full of food to a table with two men, and she placed it down as they started harassing her. But she skillfully got out and returned to the back room, under the angry gazes of the two men.

A waiter approached Archer and handed him a menu. He looked at it and ordered some curry and minotaur meat. The waiter nodded and left the table as Archer spotted the dragon-kin woman who was taking more food to a family of five sitting at a table not too far from him.

Now that she was closer, he paid more attention to her. She had dark blue hair, and her two horns were lighter blue. 'Maybe she's descended from a water dragon?'

With a nonchalant shrug, he persisted in waiting. It didn't take long before the slave disappeared into the back, only to reemerge with a tray of food, which the man brought to Archer.

Placing it on the table along with a glass of water. ''How much?''