Vess listened with faint frown and ignored the water.<span style="color: #00ffff">"so you're emotionally weak, got it."</span>she picked the salt shaker up from the center of the table and sprinkled some into her glass and then sipped it.<span style="color: #00ffff"> "i mean no offense, it's just a fact. people have varying degrees of endurance for mental, emotional and physical trauma. some people can lose entire families, parents, children and siblings and still go on with their lives relatively decently while others, like you, lose just one parent and are devastated. i am a trained priestess, among other things, so if you would like to keep talking i can listen."</span>she finished drinking her saltwater and set the glass down before she conjured a kitchen knife and set to slicing up the animal.<span style="color: #00ffff">"Kitori is going about it wrong, being raped would probably destroy you but the Dryad has a point, sex can be incredibly good for your emotional health. what you need most is someone strong and warm to hold you close and make you feel something other then your pain, but your tone tells me you have rejected their advice our of sheet stubbornness." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>