*If you would like some visuals with this story, there are pictures posted [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/HornyForgeMinis/comments/12agqoy/introducing_bran_and_brigid_nsfw/)–they do not exactly follow the action here but if you like these characters, you might appreciate one take on what they look like. Neither post is necessary to enjoy the other.*
After the bar fight was resolved, things got a lot quieter in the inn’s common room. A pack of mercenaries, fresh off a trade caravan, had rolled in and promptly started spending the coin they’d earned, and antagonizing the locals into the bargain.
Fortunately for those locals, there were a couple of more principled souls willing to stand up for their hosts. Bran Brightwing, though a long way from home and anyone looking over his shoulder, was ready to stand up to anyone trying to take advantage of those around them. The dark-haired half-elf was promptly joined by a ginger human woman who seemed to be spoiling for a good fight, and showed herself ready to meet the challenge once the fists (and chairs, and bottles, and glasses) started flying. Bran considered himself a skilled fighter, but the woman fought like she was crazed, laughing gleefuly, shoving tables over, swinging chairs at the mercenaries, and vaulting back and forth over the bar as needed. Bran held his own, but wasn’t nearly so mobile. The woman acted like she had been born in a bar fight.