Ashia nodded and forced a smile.<span style="color: #404040">"thank you."</span>she looked at Veri and smiled for real.<span style="color: #404040">"it's not that i object to the name Verixia, I'm still learning to accept naming them at all. i know we are not raising them as a clutch so we need names for them it but it still grates on my instincts. just like with Chiren and Belith it will take me a little bit to get used to it."</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ffff00">"besides emergencies, mostly fires, there are so many accidental fires and they like to think they've mastered fire... the non emergencies are usually a failure to talk to each other or them just needing the help to get back on their feet after some misfortune or another. a broken limb that they almost always get at work puts them out of work and the next thing they know they are homeless and no one will hire them because they stink from being homeless. it's ludicrous how many tiny, innocent mishaps that can occur completely beyond the victims control and their life gets screwed up... i enjoy helping them but so much of their suffering is completely pointless and inflicted by their culture. a kid with cancer is bad enough, the parents shouldn't end up homeless trying to take care of their dying child."</span>she chuckled and nodded.<span style="color: #ffff00">"yeah. modesty is confusing and then there is the shame about their sexuality. i can't begin to understand why their sexual desires embarrass them... the only thing that explains them is the inherent conflict that is their existence. you've got the soul pulling them one way, the hormones and other chemicals in the brain pushing them in another direction, emotional trauma tugging them a whole other direction and then you've got mental trauma dragging them yet another direction. protecting the mortals of Azeroth is my job, monitoring it's actions and judging them impartially means i must stay impartial, or as close to impartial as i can. i can't do that if i befriend it and i don't want to. i can't talk to it for more then five minutes without needing a drink."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>