"C'mon, don't make that face. You rescued me, that has to count for something." She looks down at Wyll. "And I'm counting you as part of that too."

"If I were a good bloke I'd cheat less at cards."

"Gotta keep the punters on their toes."

"Sometimes other people have too much money, and I don't have any money, and that's just not fair."

"And this why no one will play cards with adventurers."

"And that is why people at taverns think I'm just a drunk dumbass they can take advantage of."

"Smart move: Don't show up with armour, and they'll never know. I did play against an adventurer once, when I was younger. Didn't go well."

"Oh?"

"He was a weedy little wizard, and I thought 'this guy has never left his tower before, what's the worst that could happen?' And it was a dice game, what's the worst he could do? Anyway, let's say it was good I had a job and had some spare change for giving to charity."

"Charity?"

"Making sure the weedy little wizards of the world have money to drink with."

"The most important of all causes. Unfortunately Gale's pretty buff so he's going to have to get his own booze."

"We'll just have to rely on your card shark skills."

"Guaranteed to result in getting you drunk more often than it results in you getting a broken leg."

"That's my kind of odds, soldier!"

"I think to be a soldier you have to have spent more time fighting than getting whipped for insubordination."

A man after her own heart. "I've spent too long in the Blood War. Everyone is 'soldier,' 'ma'am,' or 'sir,' and I like you too much to call you sir."

"Glad to have made a good impression, soldier!"

He gets up and wanders over to where Shadowheart is, notices where he's going, and then veers to Gale. 

Gale is reading his spell book. "What could I do for you?"

"Give me the benefit of your charming presence?"

Help, he's being seduced, isn't he? "You've said your home didn't have the Weave. I could shoe you how to use it, if you'd like."

"I'm not smart enough to do magic."

"You're smart enough,  I've seen it. Even if you didn't have the time or inclination to become particularly skilled-- few people could learn to write technically perfect epic verse. Most people can learn to write their own name. I believe I could get you writing a sonnet, if you gave it a try."

"I have tried making a spell scaffold, it just doesn't take."

"I don't want to pressure you. I just also don't want you thinking unduly poorly of yourself."