Britomart laughed quietly and shook her head.<span style="color: #ff0000">"Jim and i are normal Human's, of course we wont survive being together, we won't survive at all. i am nearly forty years old, i only have another decade or two to live, i will get to my natural end long before the world or Whisperia changes much. hell, with the way my life has gone i am always surprised when i wake up in the morning."</span>she shook her head and looked Karren in the eye again.<span style="color: #ff0000">"your welcome. people like me, the soldiers of this world have been charging headlong into misery and death for generations so people like you can have a peaceful life. you would have never been born if Whisperia's people hadn't battled the Legion ten thousand years ago. you wouldn't have been born if the Human kingdoms hadn't battled back the Legion three fucking times in the last what? hundred and fifty years? less? i honestly don't know what year it is anymore. we sacrifice our minds, our hearts, our bodies and our lives so that you can wake up and not feel like we do so don't you dare pity me. i survived, and once in a while i find the strength to let the people i love make me happy... you will never understand how much pain i am in and how hard it is to push that pain away and ignore it so i can be happy for a little while. sometimes i don't have that strength and i am a right bitch to everyone around me and i don't apologize for that, i go out of my way to be alone on those days."</span>she laughed and shook her head.<span style="color: #ff0000">"why the hell would i do that? then i don't have anything to do with my time. i like engineering, i am enjoying the challenge and when i win i will have beaten this bloody jungle."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>