Linai's eyes widened at his revelation and she automatically took a couple of steps back from him her hand resting on the dagger at her waist. It surprised her that she didn't draw her sword, she realised that in a strange way she had grown quite fond of Diran and she certainly didn't want to kill him... well, not unless she had to.<br/><br/>"Did you know this was going to happen?" she asked, her cold side coming to the fore "Oh nevermind, don't answer that... I don't want to know" and that was the truth of the matter, she didn't want to know, what difference would it have made? Would it have stopped her taking this job if she had known her employer was going to sacrifice his body for a god? Hell no!<br/><br/>She followed him as he returned to the rope, he was right, it would be getting dark soon. She gave him a reassuring smile as he apologised to her again, he really wasn't as bad as she had first thought... a little eccentric perhaps and now the vessel for a slightly crazed god but she'd worked for worse people before.<br/><br/>"It's ok, really" she sighed "I shouldn't have snapped at you before... I... I'm sorry" she doubted she had ever apologized to anyone before, least of all one of her employers, but there was a first time for everything. "I've sworn my sword to your Beast God, who happens to be somewhere inside you" she raised an eyebrow at what she was saying, if she hadn't seen it for herself she would never have believed it "so where you go, he goes and where he goes I go I guess, at least until I know what I'm supposed to be doing." What she didn't say is that she would have accompanied him anyway, regardless, at least until they were out of this barren place.<br/><br/>Linai took the pouch that was strapped to her thigh and opened it as she headed over to the closest treasure pile, she filled it with gold to cover the second half of the payment Diran had promised for her escort and threw in a couple of extra coins for the journey. Returning to his side she grabbed the end of the rope and began to climb, squeezing through the break in the wall and dragging herself onto the sand. Brushing the worst of the sand from her body and hands she knelt down and thrust her arm back through the hole to aid Diran.