"I don't think there are any others." Aeryn says slowly,"  Not here on this beach, not nearby."  Her eyes get a haunted look about them.  "The red man knew I was here Xen, exactly where I was going to wash up.  I wasn't alone on that raft of mine."  She is looking past Xen now, at something a thousand paces away. "Six of us lashed the raft together as the ship was going down.  Four of us made it aboard.  Five, really, but something pulled the fifth person under as we got clear of the wreck.  There were still four of us when the raft fell to pieces in the inner reef."  Her eyes refocus on Xen, the hand on the barbarian's arm is no longer resting lightly, but gripping tightly.  "My memory is still hazy, but I think it was not broken apart by the waves, but torn apart by, by something.  The two still with me after that, swimming with me to the beach were, were pulled down.  I made it to the beach because I was allowed to."<br/><br/>Not for the first time Aeryn asks herself what the objective of the expedition was.  Her former master was always very closed-mouth when the subject came up.  Were they looking for this island?  There are always legends about mysterious islands, locked away from normal travel by magic, monsters, reefs, treacherous currents, all of the above.  Sometimes the legends held truth.<br/><br/>"Don't go.  We are in no condition to face that man.  We need rest, real rest to finish what my gifts started in our healing process.  Don't go.  Please."  The more the healer thinks about why she might be wanted by the Red Man's master, the more afraid she becomes.  Give her a man dying of a gut wound, a deadly plague and she is iron-willed, as cool as a mountain stream in winter.  Self-assured, diligent, unflappable in the performance of her duties.  But this, this is a personal danger.<br/><br/>Aeryn Sunlight is not an adventurer, despite having been a slave she has led a rather sheltered life in fact.  She hadn't sensed a hint of personal animosity in the man.  That doesn't help her nerves.  She can think of a number of unpleasantly impersonal uses for one such as her.<br/><br/>She pulls away from the barbarian and goes back to checking her crossbow.  She tries to compose herself and hide her fear but fails very badly.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Bluff roll to hide her fear:  6. LOL!  I'd say she looks rather scared.  29362 At 2011-07-11 08:25:09, Healergirl (uid: 25515) rolls: 1d20a4 Result: 6 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=29362)</div></div>