Sitting down at her desk chair, Madame Talamh looked sorrowfully at the pouch. She opened the leather bag and pulled out a leaf. There was no reason to keep any other type of leaf in a pouch like this, but Madame looked at the leaf in her hands to be sure. Of course it was bane. As she returned the leaf to its pouch, she asked, "Greer?" to be sure.<br/><br/>When the bodyguard nodded, she sighed deeply, staring back down at the pouch. All of her girls held a place in her heart. They all had some miserable story that made her want to hug the memories out of them. She kept her forcefulness out like a mask to make sure that she did not get too attached. Nevertheles, these girls were like her own children. To think any of them was doing drugs frightened her.<br/><br/>As she looked at the pouch, thinking on Tori's question, she recalled Greer first arriving at the brothel. Each girl had a past, and Madame could recall nearly every detail of her first moments with every girl who lived in her tree. It was nearly three years ago that Greer came to her, a long time for a woman in her occupation to stay in one place. Greer had been pointed Madame Talamh's way by a healer, who had taken care of a certain problem Greer had faced when she escaped her occupied homeland. Madame had seen the spark in the girl and given her a room despite how sickly she looked and the fact that she would need a week or so to heal before she could start working.<br/><br/>Pulling herself back from the present and away from memory lane, she looked up at Tori. "I've kicked out girls for doing drugs before. You've seen me do it. I can't go soft now. I have a reputation to uphold here," she said. "But...this does not prove that she is using. Maybe a client left it. Or she found it. Or..." she bit her lip, knowing she was making excuses. She was quiet a moment before she reached out to place a hand on top of one of the male's. "Is it bad of me that I want to wait for more proof? Should we confront her?" It didn't even occur to her to say "I" instead of "we", she always trusted Tori's opinion. He had always been there for her, a constant presence she could count on. He knew these girls just as well as she did, and he knew Talamh's opinions on matters like this.