A woman-like fox clad in a scarlet robe of overgrown fur was sitting alone at the counter of a local tavern taking a sip from a glass of wine. Things were silent with only the slight drip-drop of water from a sink providing noise. The woman began talking to the bartender on the opposite side. She let out a sigh before speaking. "You know, it's not easy being a powerful sorceress like me." The bartender gave her a questioning look. "Well okay it is but that's not what I meant, what I mean is that it's not easy being a powerful sorceress who is teamed up with two other people who do not use or even understand the complexities of magic." She took another sip. "For example, I would be able to come up with an ingenious plan only to have it be held back because I need to account for my teammate's inability to use my kind of powers. Since one specializes in hand-to-hand combat and the other in fast ambushes we can get into disagreements on how we should go about fighting our opponents. Which, of course, leads to many failures on our part." She paused for a second. "But... despite the three of us fighting a lot, we've been a team in this business for as long as I can remember." She took another pause to think things over. "Maybe there's something I'm not noticing about the three of us that I should find out about soon." She took the last sip of her drink, put her hat back on, and thanked the bartender before leaving the tavern.
Once the sorceress arrived back to the building where she and her partners stayed she removed her hat and sat down at the wooden table where they usually ate. She sat there with her hands to her chin in silence for a seemingly infinite amount of time before she eventually tired and walked upstairs. She walked past her two sleeping companions, one a blue skinned amphibian who, as always, had his elongated tongue wrapped around his neck in a scarf-like way, the other a muscular hedgehog who had removed his distinctive spiked, shell-like armor and helmet. The sorceress laid down on her own bed but she did not sleep. She attempted to but something kept her from sleeping, it was a feeling deep in her mind that something big was going to happen, something huge and monumental, but she just couldn't find out what. She kept weighing the possibilities for what seemed like hours before she finally drifted off into a deep sleep.
