Well.  She tried.

She flaps off to catch up with the rest of the party.

Zeke is pretty easy to spot! Slightly harder to catch up to, but not very, when you’re a magical bird.

He’s pretty sure that he’ll break something, if he enters an inn while he’s this annoyed, so he’s just going to bounce from rooftop to rooftop for a few minutes. The city seems a lot smaller, this way, and he might get a chance to punch the bard in the face later, and Kamin’s in his arms, and the sun is setting very prettily. Leap leap leap leap leap.

The two of them hang back until he seems ready to go inside.

He eventually calms down enough that he feels capable of calmly negotiating room payments; he hops down to the ground beside the inn he picked out, and sets Kamin down on the ground. 

“By promise of day, I wait, until -“

Sparkles, pirouettes, etc -

“The promise of dusk has since been fulfilled. 

Taverns are terrible.”

“I liked the earlier part!”

“I told Kamin that it was a bad idea. This did not phase him.”

“I’m not gonna stop going out to eat with my boyfriend just because sometimes annoying stuff happens. Annoying stuff happens to us all the time anyways, we’re, like, adventurers.”

“I don’t expect to convince you.”

He turns to the birds and... waits for them to do something.

The larger one steps into her human form; the smaller lights on her shoulder.  She walks over to them.  "Oh, is that the half, then - "

“Yes. Who are you, exactly.”

"Morgan."

Jade reminds himself to keep working on lie detection. 

“Last name, class, broad skillset and goals.”

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhh.  Rave . . . n.  We're a druid and a bird.  She can also turn into a cat and an eel?  And I'm pretty strong.  We'd like to learn more secrets."

“Jade Bushida, psion on this side and a healer on Kamin’s, working on improving psionically -“ he makes a gesture towards Zeke - “and Ezekiel Byrne, brute, boyfriend of my alter ego, working on hedonism.”

"A pleasure."

“No.”

“... I dunno, she seems pretty cool.”

“That wasn’t one of my criteria.”

He turns around and walks into the inn, tail swaying from side to side.

... Zeke leans against a nearby streetlamp.

”I still dunno how he made Kamin. Uh, we’re, like, probably gonna be in a group for the next while, do you have any hobbies or other stuff you like talking about or whatever?”

"Nnnnnnnot . . . really.  - Do you?"

“I really like killing stuff and traveling and my boyfriend! And I’m totes learning how to speak nekomata - or, like, one kinda nekomata - from Kamin, and that’s super fun.”

"Uhhh.  Neat."

“Yeah.”