*This work is from my friend who requested I publish it here.
Ice cream. It was one of her favorite things in the world. Once a week she brought two vanilla ice cream cones to the Cathedral. She loathed that it was only once a week, and only for an hour or two at the most that she could see her friend. Every Wednesday afternoon at four, Chandani Kapoor, a deep caramel colored woman while in her human form, would wait dutifully at the door to the Cathedral. It wasn't as though she were forbidden from entering, though she had gotten more than her fair share of dirty looks and "shush!"s. Truth be told, holy locations made her uncomfortable. The amount of pious energy in the air would be refreshing to most, but to her it made her uneasy and wary. As a worgen, she was more prone to sensory stimulation, the smells of the incense, the sounds of chanting and prayer, and the electrial tingle of energy in the air proved too much for her each and every time she entered the building.
Chandani, known to others simply as Dani, had stood at the door this Wednesday afternoon just like all the others, an ice cream cone in each of her calloused hands. At the fourth bong of the clock tower bells, a short, bubbly, happy blonde priestess walked out of the archway, looking to her left at Dani expectantly, eyes moving to the ice cream.
"Dani!" She giggled at the woman holding the ice cream. She gladly took one, "I'm so happy you're here!"
"Hey Andy! 'Course I'd be here. Things goin' alright? I've got somethin' to tell you real fast, an offer really. You wanna go sit somewhere?"
"Sounds good to me."
They walked side by side to a bench under a big shady tree in the plaza. Dani was wearing a simple work shirt, dirty from the blacksmith where she apprenticed, tough leather jeans, and black leather boots. Every bit the hard working woman. Her face was rather cleaned up though, standing in stark contrast to the rest of her appearance. Andy was in her day-to-day white robes, her loose blonde curls laying over her shoulders and bouncing as she licked at her ice cream. Dani let out a sigh as she smiled weakly at the woman.
"So, I got an offer."
"An offer?" Andy looked at her friend, head tilting.
"Mhmm. I've been puttin' the word out there that I'm hiring myself out for protection." Dani took a big bite out of her quickly melting ice cream
"Like a bodyguard?" she tilted her head for a moment before going back to lick up the more melted parts of her frozen treat.
"Ooh! Brainfreeze!" Dani clenched her eyes shut, pressing a hand to her forehead. "Yeah. Gods that hurt, yeah. Bodyguard. Got an offer to go to Uldum for some scholar deal, protect the bookworm. This guy though, he's puttin' together a team. Said he needed someone with first aid or healin' skills. I said that I might know someone." Dani brushed some stray hairs behind her ear before continuing. "Do I know someone?"
Andy lapped at her ice cream before taking a bite out of the cone, "Mmm! So good. Mmf, well you know me, Dani. I use the Light to heal injuries and help the sick, and I'm also skilled in first aid. You should know that by now, silly! I made that salve for that nasty burn you got on your leg two weeks ago."
"Good. So the trip is gonna take about three weeks once we're there. He said he's got a gnome friend who rigged up some teleporting thingy. Gets us there in a heartbeat and anything we're carrying." Dani nodded assuredly, offering her half-finished ice cream cone to her friend. Andy had just popped the last bite of cone into her mouth before taking the offer.
"This is gonna be great! I can't wait to go tell Mr. Snice Noops! I know, I'll tell him tonight! He'll be thrilled I bet!" She laughed, biting at the cone.
Dani nodded and laughed as well, "Can't wait! We leave in the morning. Pack for hot weather and bring anything you might need. Three weeks is longer than you'd think."
