<span style="color: dimgray">"maybe if i find a reason to want to understand, right now all i see is weakness and thats not something i can abide. i heard that. have you ever spent time around my kind? i dont have a bunch of slaves i brand, cut and kill for laughs, i dont plot the enslavement or destruction of entire nations day and night... all i want is food in my belly, a safe place to sleep and a woman or two to take care of my lust and eggs. i dont steal my food, i dont barge into people's homes and throw them out and the last three eggs have been put into very well paid whores who knew precisely what i planned to do to them. cruelty is fun but it should be inflicted where its deserved, like the rapist i ate last week... if you could tell Valeen to lay off the investigation on that gory crime scene she found just outside the royal exchange that would be nice. the woman i saved will attest that he was attacking her if need be but i prefer to leave that alone. oh you are? that sounds like a good fight, hes such a warmongering prick he will probably try to kill you on the spot, he sent Ibara's messenger back beaten to a pulp. yeah there is something wrong with it, im a Black Dragon and a shadow walker and i think thats just low."</span>she looked up as the door opened and Ibara walked over to the desk and rummaged in one drawer and pulled out a green glowing crystal only to smash it with a shudder as the energy sank into her arm.<span style="color: darkorange">"im glad to see your up mistress... and that youve been well protected, an assassin disguised as a messenger tried to knife me in my office."</span><span style="color: dimgray">"at lease someone around here trusts me..."</span>Ibara looked at her and sighed softly.<span style="color: darkorange">"you did put my ability to ignore prejudice to the test but if not for the earings you gave my Mistress Ras or Elune would be putting my brains back in my head at her or Shauna's request and you do hold true to one Dragon habit, you want something and youll do anything to get it."</span>Ashia smirked and shrugged.<span style="color: dimgray"> "she is a fine strong woman." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>