<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/y1uPO9K.jpg)</div><br/>The elf woman looked almost startled as Miyuki caught back up to her  and stopped her to ask if everything was ok.<em> "Excuse me, did someone lose something... or is looking for something? Perhaps... I might be able to help."</em>Miyuki said, trying to appear as friendly as possible.  She noticed that the children's questions didn't stop, even for one moment, their attention laser focused on the elven woman.<br/><br/>She looked almost exhausted she was so tired, she glanced down at the six children and shrugged, then in a weary tone of voice asked,<strong> "Unless you know a high level cleric or wizard that can remove a cursed ring," she held up one hand showing a rather plain looking golden band on the finger, "I doubt there's anything you can do miss."  She moved to walk on but Miyuki reached out to stop her, and she turned and gave another long sigh.  She began to speak and it had the cadence of someone who had told this story many times and had gotten good at telling it, "I was out in the jungles, my team and I found a cache of treasure in some old ruins.  We split up the loot, I took the ring and put it on.  The mage in our group took a locket.  On our way back to Laelith we were attacked, but not all of us.  Our mage fell into the river and was swept away, and we never found his body." </strong>She pointed to one of the six children,<strong>"That night this one showed up out of the darkness and started asking where his mother's locket was, why I had her ring but not her locket.  On and on he asked so many questions, never responding to me, just endless questions.  He's not real.  For days our group searched for the mage, or at least his body, but finally we gave up.  The child refused to leave and followed me.  The warrior in our group had enough and one night couldn't take the endless questions any more.  He drove his blade into the child's neck, but the child simply vanished into thin air.  The next night, he reappeared with that one,"</strong>She pointed to one of the girl children.<strong> "Now there were two, asking about their mother's locket.  Every time one of them was killed, they would reappear the next night with another child.  I can't trap them, I can't lock them away from me, I haven't had a moment's peace in two weeks."</strong><br/><br/>She heaved a long suffering sigh again and looked as if she was ready to fall asleep on the street while still standing,<strong>"The only place that will let me rent a room is a half burned out tower that had a fire last year.  No neighbors.  I've been trying to find an expedition to go back out into the jungle, but none of my old companions will assist me, and no one wants to take a job that entails searching for a single lost body with very little treasure on it."</strong><br/><br/>She rolled her eyes,<strong>"Does that answer your question miss?"</strong>