<div class="floatright"><div align="center">Lisa</div>(http://i.imgur.com/S1SsSzu.jpg)</div><br/>Zerxel's sleep was dreamless and she awoke slowly.  The sky outside the windows was still night when she opened her eyes again, but Zerxel got the distinct impression it was always night when one looked out the windows of this tavern.  Bo lay beside her, not quite snoring, but breathing the deep breath of sleep.  Zerxel felt very refreshed after her rest, but knew that time was ticking away inside this inn at double the rate that it was in the dungeon.  As much as her desire to wake her dwarven lover, or even to just lounge, might be, she knew she should get moving.  She tried to rise from the bed slowly, but the mattress creaked slightly and the dwarf grumbled once groggily, then quickly came to full alertness.  Looking around she realized they weren't in danger and grumbled something in dwarvish that Zerxel couldn't make out.<br/><br/>The dwarf swung her feet to the floor and looked around rubbing her hair and mirroring Zerxel's thoughts when she asked,<strong>"Bath?"</strong><br/><br/>The tavern seemed much unchanged as the pair descended to the common room, with drinking, laughing, carousing, and the sound of some woman getting fucked hard by Jack in his private corner of the tavern.  Zerxel flagged down Amber and requested a bath, and the redheaded woman took her and Bo to the baths, leaving them in the dimly lit basement room.  As the pair slipped into separate tubs and began to wash however a familiar face came into the room.  Lisa entered with a smile,<strong> "I have to thank you Zerxel for sending me here.  I thought the dungeon was going to be a death sentence, instead I found this place.  It may not be the celestial realms that the priests talked about, but it is a certain kind of heaven for me.  To live forever, in a vibrant tavern like this, surrounded by my sister contestants down in the basement, or the people above in the common room?  It's a lot better than being eaten by gobbers, taken slave by trolls, or turned into some horrid monster girl.  I owe you one."</strong><br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">I'm highly annoyed.  I had typed out a longer post then this, but it poofed somehow.  Like I did all my posting early this morning, and I know this was one of them, I have no idea why the other threads posted ok, but this one vanished.  It wasn't even the last one I did so i have no idea why one post, in the middle of a bunch of other posts, vanished.  I had to recreate this from memory, there was more fluff and such, but this is essentially what the vanished post was.  Sorry that it went into the digital ether.</div></div>