Ari felt her fellow's confusion, but decided to remain silent about it unless she brought it up. When the foreign Ari started to ask questions about suffering, it was the vastly naive native's turn to become confused. She had only the vaguest idea of the term, "suffering," and in her language and vernacular, it meant "tolerating" or "enduring." However, she decided to answer the spirit of the question, rather than the question itself.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"As I said, if you are found out, there will be a fair hearing, before our God-King, amongst my peers. If he decides to remove you, for he is the only one who can, then you will not be harmed."</span><br/><br/>In the seconds between responses that lasted years within Ari's mind, the host personality busied herself with mental tactical games and fantasies of spending time with her animal pets, which she allowed the other Ari to experience if she so desired.<br/><br/>However, when Ari asked about Christine, she replied promptly,<span style="font-style: italic">"Christine simply vanished from my body one day. It was sudden, but painless. As I said before, she mentioned other worlds, so I suspect she was whisked away to one of those. If you are nervous here, you will be...more nervous? -  [<span style="font-weight: bold">Translation error: "utterly terrified"</span>] - elsewhere...at least, that is the vibe I got from her when she returned to me from one of her otherworldly journeys. She mentioned a place called 'Malevora', 'the underworld,' 'hell'... I am not familiar with those words. But I highly recommend you make the best of your time here before a similar fate befalls you..."</span><br/><br/>As she was telling Ari this, she was checking on Anani. Due to the visitor's attention on the comatose woman, who's vitals were strong (abnormally so, you would think) she did not notice a<a class="postlink" href="http://freefromharm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/siberian-musk-deer-herbivore-canines.jpg">saber-toothed deer</a>step into the field just a few dozen feet away from the dinosaur, and begin nipping at the tall grass.<br/><br/>Ari responded to her visitor's internal concerns regarding muddled feelings and memories,<span style="font-style: italic">"The only reason for that would be a conflicting set of emotions, memories, and personalities. In other words, you may have come to 'visit' me with another consciousness melded or latched into yours.  I do not sense hostility from the passenger personality. I will work on trying to facilitate a peaceful meld between the two, though they may become inseparable."</span><br/><br/>In order to help nurture a peaceful and calming state of mind, Ari mentally indicated the saber-tooth deer that she had acutely perceived with the excellent ears she was used to hearing with. She then stated,<span style="font-style: italic">"Time,"</span>in a perplexed manner, like she had heard the word once or twice before, but could not conceptualize it in her mind.<span style="font-style: italic">"I will help you understand, but you will not be able to do so if you do not allow yourself to find peace here. As I said before, it is best to assume that there are no enemies here. Presuming that a former traitor will betray us again invites despair and fear that is simply not beneficial to anyone or anything. The former traitors have received their sentences at their trials."</span><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"I cannot control this body any longer,"</span>Ari said when her counterpart insisted that the host speak to the individual coming their way,<span style="font-style: italic">"but I can give you the words to say, if it is someone who is not allied with the visitors. After the trial, there was a civil war between those who supported your kind and those who did not. However, that rebellion was easily quelled."</span><br/><br/>The internal Ari mentally reached out, expanding her powerful mind to locate her god-king. She also expanded the much more powerful energy field around her heart, and within two seconds she was able to feel her king's presence as if he was standing beside her. However, when the other Ari's unstable emotions reared up again, the host lost the connection.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"I sense a very distrustful, combative, and volatile personality,"</span>Ari observed.<span style="font-style: italic">"Would you be so disappointed to learn that this world does not support such violence, or that as long as you remain here, physical conflict would rarely ever rise above one playfully wrestling with another? Over the last few days, we have had a conspiracy, rebellion, and civil war. And yet in the many thousands of years I have been alive prior, there has been not so much an unkind word spoken between two individuals."</span><br/><br/>When the visiting Ari asked if she should pick up Anani, Ari inwardly sighed.<span style="font-style: italic">"We should be fine, Ari."</span><br/><br/><blockquote class="uncited"><div>Roll d20 for perception to identify the individual coming toward you in the woods.</div></blockquote>