<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/9a/Zhergan.jpg)</div><strong>Character name</strong>: Ts'udzagha Zhergan<br/><strong>Who:</strong>Eira<br/><strong>Where:</strong>In a cave<br/><strong>When: </strong>Evening, 8th day of the Hunger Moon<br/><hr/>He remained silent as she spoke, he could see the ember lights of the furious dark spirits whipping about her form as he voice grew more and more into something more like an animal's fierce growl. It wasn't his place to pass judgement on her or the woman that had wronged her. Jealousy tore apart greater men and women than Eira and her. But so did the lust for revenge. As she finished, asking him why she couldn't have both his gave a faint smile.<br/><br/>"Because you can't have both. Revenge is as much a cage as slavery, Eira. Believe me, I know..." He lowered his head for a moment, contemplating his words. He had just about said too much, told her too much. It was neither the time or place for<em>that</em>story to be told, nor he thought the right person to tell it to. He raised his head again, his expression much darker than before. "Killing her will not mend anything. It will not make the man you would have come to love yours. It will not give you back the time you lost in Kayax. It will just trap you in a cage of hatred and self-loathing and after that you will never be able to let anyone come close to you ever again. No, you will lose your freedom the day you kill her. Because it never ends. It is a spiral of self-destruction which goes down into the freezing depths of Death..." He paused for a moment and scratched his chin. "It is murder most foul. Not for survival, not for your family, not for your nation. It is an entirely selfish act to kill for revenge and it eats you up until there is nothing left but a husk. So if you find your freedom, don't throw it away by killing such a simpleminded harlot. You don't deserve it, Eira."<br/><br/>He laid down on his carpet of branches and pulled the cloak closer around himself. "Go to sleep now. You must leave early in the morning. I'll point you in the best direction to reach your freedom, then I will return to mine..."