Ok, after the long period of waiting (and I know you all were just shaking with anticipation) due to a great deal of schoolwork and the subsequent great deal of rest, I return and pick up where I left off so many eons ago.
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After days of waiting, searching for booze, and Crush searching around for warrior women, Kano returns with the Wise Woman Qanjjano in tow, who has a seven foot ruby claymore strapped to her back.
"I'm back, and look who I found!"
Qanjjano eyes the group with an expression of skepticism, taking extra time to examine Crush, who turns red at the attention. She is a tall, dark-skinned woman with flaming red hair and golden armor obviously forged from the remains of a slain angel. She unhitches her sword and stabs it into the ground next to her, then leans on it and turns to Kano.
"And THESE guys took on a whole swarm, did they? Heh, I suppose they're more than they appear, but that ain't exactly uncommon in these parts."
Meanwhile, Kano is using a sliver of ruby to slowly chip away parts of the emerald given her by Crush. When she has made a smooth facet, she proceeds to tap it four times with a copper dendrite. It begins to glow slightly from the facet and she covers the rest of it with some moistened ash from a burnt-out fire pit.
Kano then scratches a complex sign into the facet which refracts the glow into a pair of insectile-looking wings.
The thing begins to hum lowly and then flies off at great speed.
"Right. Well, in a few days the word'll be out. For now, again, we lie low."