Ras took a deep breath and leaned back in the chair as he clutched his chest tighter to slow the bleeding. "You don't have any duties... I'm just doing what I twas told to do. Stop following Venoxious? You think I don't know those things? If I could just give up on him I would have... before I killed somebody for the first time. I hate him, and I hate what he's made me do... but I also know what'll he do to my family... to you, if I go to another. Seriously? Of all the Loa, the goddesses of fertility and huntresses will... accept me." He struggled to take a deep breath and shook his head. "So I have to trust you... to bring me back AND follow the Loa... you don't trust me enough to look me in the eye... but I have to literally put my life and immortality in your hands. If it didn't hurt so much I'd be laughing... I trust you, Ibara. I trust you with everything, I always have." He let out a muffled wheeze as his blood began to burn through his hand and the rest of his chest as it seeped out of the slowly growing wound. "Perhaps... you could make this... a little less painful?"<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>