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<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0040ff"><i>How in the hell did I get myself involved with this lot of fools?</i></span>[/list:u]<br/>
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Arioch Ta'Thlen walked ahead of the rest of the group visibly annoyed. The entire time they had been traversing the Orange Fields, they had been chattering away about this and that. None of it was important conversation, and after the first three hours or so, it was just annoying. Painfully so.<br/>
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After throwing away her position as a general in the army of the High Elves, Arioch left the tree-top kingdom and returned to the bottom, the place where she lived most of her life. There were no such things as sight's to be seen, nor was she moving back there. She was leaving. Why? Because of the Eclipse. The world was covered in a pseudo darkness allowing every evil abomination in existence to walk the face of the earth as they so chose at any time they chose to do so. And she couldn't stand it. The armies were tired, and no one was doing a thing, not even the three remaining heroes. Of course, being betrayed by one of their own and losing some important had to be hard - but the three had just vanished off the face of the earth. So there was a bounty on their heads? And so most of the world wanted them dead? This wasn't <i>that</i> much different from any other war when you were fighting on the losing team. Then again, they had never been on a losing team. That was something that she needed to remember.<br/>
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The three cowardly bastards, as she called them, had just happened to be traversing the same stretch of the wood that she was wandering through. She bumped into them after realizing how stupid leaving her kingdom was, and how foolish it was of her to think that she could do anything against this force all on her own. Their initial meeting was none too pleasant. Not one to censure herself, she let each of them have it. They failed to protect the Queen, they ran and hid, and now the entire world was seemingly spiraling downhill because of them. Without giving them a chance to even speak, she turned and went on her way. She had gotten into trouble, as she had run into one of the raiding parties in the lowlands. They had come to help her, and offered her the chance to come with them to help and correct their mistakes. She accepted their offer, not to help them correct their mistakes, but to put an end to this darkness and return the previous peace to the world.<br/>
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0040ff"><i>And like a fool, here you are. You are just a glutton for punishment, aren't you?</i></span>[/list:u]<br/>
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<b><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0040ff">"I do pray to the Gods that we are,"</span></b> she sighed. Z's optimism was beginning to really annoy her. She actually shared the same sentiments that Lynnira did on the matter. Well, similar ones. She pitied him for being able to be so bubbly right now, but could not help but wonder if there were something that happened in his past that made this look like a cakewalk. And then there was that. . .other thing. The Vampire. Everan his name was. Something about him being around made her uncomfortable, and not just because he was a creature of darkness. There was a lewd glimmer in his eye that made her shudder. The thought alone made her subconsciously clench her fists. Thankfully, he had yet to say or try anything, but she was waiting for the moment she did so that she had a good reason to hit him in the face.<br/>
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To take her mind off of things, her violet optics scanned her surroundings. She was silent for just a moment, before speaking once more. <span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0040ff"><b>"If we keep up this pace, we should reach the town within the hour."</b></span> <i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0040ff">Thankfully.</span></i>[/list:u][/list:u]</li>
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