<div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">I just realized that a good part of Sherani's assessment was based on information she doesn't have regarding Lilium's motives (specifically her interest in the machine), and therefore would've sounded a lot more judgmental than it should. This is what I get for not fact-checking, especially after that hiatus  <img alt="^^;" src="./images/smilies/sweatdrop.gif" title="Sweat drop"/> <br/><br/>That said, misreading the situation and saying something boneheaded seems entirely in character, so I'm going to leave it as is. Just wanted to let Sillyness know I didn't mean anything by it!</div></div></div><br/><blockquote><div><cite>Lilium wrote:</cite>“Which part of our short time together would make you assume so? Throwing myself in harms way to save a handful of patrons in an inn I had no previous interactions with? Parting with my own life energies to tend your wounds last night? Turning my back on an orc who wanting nothing more then to end my life so I might prevent you from being devoured by a far less sized alley cat?”</div></blockquote><br/>"Well, uh... y'know..." Sherani stammers. She hadn't really considered the question that much, let alone prepared a counter-argument, and Lilium's response is like the verbal equivalent of a left hook.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Crap, I said something stupid again, didn't I? Dammit Sherani, THINK before ya talk!</span>Of course, the shifter promptly ignores her own advice...<br/><br/>"But you were getting attacked last night too!" she protests. "And I fed Rak, so I figured you liked me, so, the life energy thing... an' that cat was<span style="font-style: italic">really scary!</span>Aw,<span style="font-style: italic">c'mon</span>Lil! You know I didn't mean it like that, right?" Sherani stumbles after Lilium as she departs, trying to put on a hurt face without looking too vulnerable to the rest of the street. Sherani's theatrical skills being what they aren't, the end result is more comical than anything else.