<strong>Character: Adria Larentia<br/>Location: South of the Arena<br/>Concerning: Conversation with Kahru</strong><br/><br/>Until this moment, Adria hadn’t realized how exciting playing games with dangerous men. She would never cheat on her husband assuming he lived. And Sand respected Kahru, considered him a friend. So, he was off limits. But when he grabbed her upper arm and pushed her back into the alley, wicked thoughts of being collared, branded, forced to her knees. They sent a rush through her so powerful, she had to literally force back the rising flood of erotic imagery that flashed through her mind.<br/><br/>It helped that Kahru’s words and expression brought Sand back to her mind and guilt for feeling like a woman about to be taken by a man flickered through her. What right did she have to be excited by a man’s touch when she was a married woman. She nodded as Kahru recognized her and said huskily, “Yes, I’ll walk with you.”<br/><br/>She took the pouch and though he couldn’t see through her veils, her smiled was filled with affection and respect for this man who had been her husband’s friend. This man who had been their protector. “Thank you.” Then she explained about how Sand had been sent on a mysterious mission by his father and never returned. Kahru would know that Sand’s sense of honor had often conflicted with his genial guild master father who would easily cut a man’s throat and then give alms to his widow and express his condolences. “I fear Sand’s father had something to do with his disappearance. They fought terribly before that mission and now Sand’s younger brother, Cobalt, is being groomed to take over the guild eventually.<br/><br/>She shrugged. “My father-in-law never directly attacked me. But he praised my beauty often when in his cups and you know what that can do to men. He also hinted ever so subtly that I was unfaithful to Sand and perhaps had something to do with his disappearance.” Her eyes filled with pain. She wanted to protest that she had never been faithful, but even with Kahru, she could not bear to defend her honor, honor that her husband would have died to defend. “I had to leave Port Kar, I feel like I exist now only to find whether Sand lives."<br/><br/><br/>