<div class="floatleft">(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/335/5/7/avariel_by_jennyverse-d88ei85.jpg)</div>The door to the tavern opened to a swift but pleasant breeze scented faintly of mountain air. The breeze might be calm but the winged figure that entered on it was anything but. Selena's face was already crumpling and tearing up as she entered, hung in the air momentarily searching for her target, and then dived straight for Lyari leaving tears in the air behind her and barely holding off long enough for the half-elf to finish with her current customer before tackling the bustier woman.<br/><br/>"Oh, Lyari I'm so<em>sorry</em>! I didn't know what was happening and left, and then by the time I got back she'd been wounded so<em>badly</em>and none of the clerics would<em>heal</em>her, even when I begged and pleaded and threatened, and she was bleeding so much I didn't have time to take her anywhere and..." Her tearful babbling trailed off and when she spoke again it was barely a whisper. "She died in my arms... Erica I mean. I couldn't save her. I blew everything up, the Tavern, the Imperials,<em>everything</em>. But I didn't harm a hair on her head... but she was still dead and even I've never found a way to bring someone back. I buried her on the far side of town, at the top of the cliff. There's a grove of trees there. And an opening over looking the village that you can see where the Tavern was...<em>is</em>through. I thought she'd like that. The air around her always whispered of forests and wild places." She looked up at last, eyes still weeping heavily. "I'm so<em>sorry</em>."