<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;">Almost forgot to answer this.</div></div></div><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="text-decoration: underline">~&lt;~the previous night~&gt;~</span></span><br/><blockquote><div><cite>Eidolon wrote:</cite>"So..." Chrrou eventually breathes, unfocused eyes belatedly finding their way to Lin again as he gingerly lays a thought aside, "...what will you do now? I know it's not an easy question." He falls quiet, collecting words rather than thoughts this time. "Was Talloak... all you had? Or, if the roads were safe," the mouse chuckles humorlessly, "is there somewhere you would go? It goes without saying I wouldn't want to see you left here..." In fact, Chrrou would scarcely leave her alone with Kahmori, even, after the ... interesting scent she developed after a little time spent with him! He can't decide which of the two of them he ought to ask about that, though...</div></blockquote><br/>"I...don't know. I don't even know who else is alive..." her voice is tiny, and fearful of the possibility that the answer is 'no one'. This current tour of Armel is the farthest she's ever ventured from home in her short and sheltered life; Talloak was her entire world. If it and everyone she knew are gone and nothing but memories now, then she's totally adrift in the world...<br/><br/>She doesn't say any of this to Chrrou; it is too upsetting to put into words. Instead she fixates on her last lingering hope, however dim it may be:<br/>"...a lot of us were captured alive like me. Some of my clan could still be out there...in chains, but alive..."