Anna cocked her head to the side and then hugged Athena again when she had her coffee.<span style="color: #4da6ff">"so it's not just the coffee that helps with your headaches, it's me. i recognize the cookies, i would know them anywhere."</span>she took a cookie to eat while her other arm stayed wrapped around the Elf.<br/><br/>Ophidian looked at Ras for a moment and then shook his head.<span style="color: #ff8000">"aren't you just brilliant? if she can find -any- safe harbor she will hole up there until her fear wins again and she lashes out at her caretakers, just as she has her entire life. but hey, whats one more round of hurting the people she loves? she already wants to kill herself and when this Ophidian is forced to throw her out to protect his family she will have lost the very -last- person she doesn't believe Karren poisoned against her! you..."</span>he shook his head, closed his eyes and took a deep breath and then looked at Kitori.<span style="color: #ff8000"> "i am trying. Karrie needs to accept emotional help but her fear rules her too much to trust anyone to help her in that manner... my plan was to let her wallow in her self inflicted misery until the pain was so much worse then her fear that she would want help more then she feared the consequences of trusting someone. my plan was to keep your family completely in the dark so that you would now know that your friend is suffering and that you must let her suffer. my plan would have kept your family from having to turn her away when she is starving and has nothing so that Karrie would not feel betrayed... i sought to preserve her one last untainted relationship. i hate what i must do to Karrie to make her accept help, it hurts me and i am already suffering the loss of my Syrenka, she did not come with me. but i am strong enough to hurt people in the short term if it will help them in the long run."</span>he looked at the younger Ophidian and then the two sleeping children and then back to Kitori.<span style="color: #ff8000">"i am very sorry that our first meeting happened this way, i... i had intended to have the native Ras introduce us, i... i am deeply sorry that i was forced to come here under these circumstances, barge into your home and bark orders at your mate in front of your children." <span style="color: #006600">"you didn't even wake them."</span> "it was still disrespectful, but i could not have you charging off to Ironforge to rescue Karrie."</span><br/><br/>without appearing Ophidian made Karrie float to the top of the snow in such a manner that when she woke she would just think herself exceptionally lucky. he healed the wort of her injuries but left enough to maintain the illusion of her just being lucky and to wake up before hypothermia would set in. next he duplicated a Dwarven home on the other side of the mountain, and built it nearby but still a good walk in the snow. after that he took the form of a Dwarf and lit a nice comforting fire in the fireplace, lit the home appropriately and sat by the fire to wait for the wayward Human to be forced to stumble over and beg for help. if she ignored the lifeline she would still survive because the temperature would rise just enough to allow her survival but it would be miserable out there.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>