<span style="color: #666600">"Fractured into several pieces, yes, but she's always been trustworthy in the past if not easily distracted. Despite being as old as us she still maintains the mind of a child, it's something I never got around to investigating. The Empress is trying to buy my trust or my loyalty, call it paranoia if you wish but I learned the hard way about trusting those in power."</span>She shook her head and moved to lean against the operating table.<span style="color: #666600">"Arlokk and I had such a nice thing going for a while... minus the he trying to kill me, take my powers, and me having to make an example out of him thing. I had nothing to do with her talking to him. Another one of us let Ras know that he wasn't able to wake Elune and told him why, he chewed her head off assuming she was like Eldryn but took her warning to heart and has let Elune rest. But now that his behavior has been mostly fixed I think you owe him an apology and a chance to prove he his a good man. He's no Ophidian, but he's not as hostile as he seems."</span><br/><br/>Karrie stepped through her portal a safe distance from her home and adjusted her robes.<span style="color: #ff0000">"Rachel?"</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>