Holding up her hands to show they were empty and weaponless-- and wiggling her fingers to drive the point home-- Neeshka said, "And I was always avoiding guards and soldiers back home, but I guess I'm kind of not at my best here. I mean, really, I'm a city girl-- and they want me to swim?"

And catch fish and bang open big nut-like melon things from the tops of the weirdest trees she'd ever seen. It was a good thing she'd spent a few years outside Neverwinter, but even then, she'd gotten by on stealing, not hunting and scavenging. There just wasn't much to steal, here.

"I'm Neeshka," she offered, hoping maybe being non-threatening and introducing herself would maybe keep her from getting knifed. There was no way she could snitch it if she had to avoid it, after all.