<span style="color: #a64dff">"Ras needs to come with us, I can cook his recipes but I don't know how to shop worth a damn." </span>She looked down at Anna and pulled her into a kiss.<span style="color: #a64dff">"But you're familiar with all of this human food, lead the way my love. Get everything you think we'll need and don't worry about the cost. Our dragon has more gold than she'll ever spend and I can make more."</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #666600">"That The'kal wasn't corrupted by the seed in her, she was devoured. And it's not a seed, it's an egg. She sacrificed herself to protect the home world of the Seraphim people from the Legion's invasion, when she was killed the egg inside her reacted to the destruction of its host and hatched. Those eggs spawn tendrils of the Devourer, when they hatch the Devourer is drawn to them and it consumes them. When it does that the host body is usually left intact but as an empty shell. However... the Devourer can reanimate the using the original host's own memories and mannerisms. Simply put. That The'kal is a zombie. She died and now the conscious in that body is merely an imitation of what she used to be like. If it's any consolation, the Devourer isn't an evil entity, it doesn't hunt or have any desires. It simply exists and people like the council harvested eggs from it and spread them across the universe."</span>She held Melody tight and smiled a little.<span style="color: #666600">"Then I have to wonder. If I can count on you being by my side, for a little while at least, what kind of failures would you like from me? If you'll be here to keep me calm and focused surely there's something special I can do for you? Because being with you is making me quite calm though I am getting a little nervous."</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #8000ff">"I just want to be strong for him. I want him to be proud and love me, but all I've done is make him sad... and I don't know how to make him happy."</span>When Ras identified the elemental spirits he became considerably less concerned but jumped at the sudden voice. "No, I figured you were still watching my daughter try to kill herself. But what did I do wrong? She attacked Vyre after I ended the confrontation, and said she wouldn't stop so my hand was forced. Vyre is far too dangerous to be assaulted like that and I tried to sit Relene down and explain all that to her but as usual I just made things worse."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>