New Official Request

"Your contribution?"

Frostbloom blinked, genuinely baffled, looking Alexis up and down. "Your stats aren't bad, sure, but against a berserk boss you were barely scratching its defenses. What exactly were you contributing?"

"I" Alexis floundered, nothing safe to say surfacing fast enough.

I can hardly tell her I spent half that fight as a sword.

SilentDrifter caught the look on her face and apparently drew his own very wrong conclusion, because his mouth curved into something entirely too knowing.

"Ohhh. I think I get it, boss." He dragged the word out, grinning. "You handled things from the back while the big guy handled the front, and together you two really brought the house down. Teamwork."

Farshot and Frostbloom both lost it at once, laughing hard enough that Frostbloom had to brace herself on his shoulder.

Alexis's face went dark, a vein ticking visibly at her temple. "You think you're funny?"