"You're such a charmer!" Ilia laughed and waved her free hand, as if she were shy hearing such a compliment. Generally those words from a man really would get her blushing, but coming from a skeleton... It certainly helped that his voice was smooth as silk.

She should have expected the toll, though, and her eyes hardened briefly. When he laid out his terms, however, the skeleton man's fare didn't seem quite as high as she would have feared. If anything, that was a walk in the park compared to their previous trials. She smiled again, pulled Seishin along with her closer to the dock.

"Oh, well then, we'll take you up on that smell option this time around." She turned to Seishin, giving him a short nod while trying to communicate her thoughts through her eyes and a squeeze of her hand. As the fighter of their group, she needed to keep most senses but smell wasn't that bad of a handicap. "I'll take the penalty tonight. I don't mind!"