<span style="color: #ffff00">"don't apologize, listen. you helped Emily and Frank and that went perfectly fine because you offered help and they accepted, you didn't force the issue."</span>she shook her head and frowned.<span style="color: #ffff00"> "i meant for advice since helping people is what she does. i think i am done venting for the moment."</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #b30000">"keeping your story straight to maintain a lie takes effort, I'm too lazy to do that unless i have to."</span>she frowned faintly and then looked into her glass.<span style="color: #b30000">"almost everyone who has ever learned the truth of what i am has hurt me. i may be quick but i have been shot, stabbed and bludgeoned more then once before i could get away... and since i just met you i don't trust you. i guess that makes sense."</span>she nodded with a smile.<span style="color: #b30000">"it is, and on topic too because the new thieves clan came in with that batch of Wildhammer immigrants two months ago, they set up shop under that closed Gnome bar."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>