<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/ljYAgW2.jpg)</div><br/>Zerxel had expected a lot of things, and what followed from her friend since coming to the Temple of Cyril was better than she could have hoped for given the circumstances.  While the 'mask' on Bo's face was almost convincing, she could see her heart wasn't in the emotion she had plastered on her fair features, but if she had any doubt if it was, what came out of Bo's mouth assured Zerxel otherwise.  Not that she didn't deserve the tirade that did follow, or hadn't asked for it, but it was nice to know the dwarven spearwoman wasn't truly angry with her for the most part.  So she was able to listen to everything Bo said without it hurting too badly save the ending part, and even then it wasn't so bad truth be told.  Having said that, Zerxel shook her head when Bo asked if she thought she was like Lisa, a disgrace for wanting to leave the Dungeon.<strong>"No, you are far from that Bo.  It helps you aren't trying to find an easy way out the first chance you get however."</strong>Having said that though, what Bo said next had Zerxel mentally recoiling a bit because as loath as she was to admit it, her friend had a very valid point.  While not a common occurrence, it wasn't unheard of for some of the girls to join the temple, only to realize too late that they weren't prepared for the enormous task of what lay before them.  As such, some indeed took the truly easy way out and killed themselves.  While most people found such a thing sad and heartbreaking, Zerxel saw those that did that to have been utterly foolish to have traveled all that way to Temple, only to take themselves out of the equation for purely selfish reasons.  And make no mistake, death by one's own hand was a purely selfish action no matter how one tried to rationalize it.<br/><br/>But at the same time she could understand why someone would take such a cowardly way out, especially against the entity they were trying to destroy, essentially, and driving Pandora out of their world.  Which lead to Zerxel giving Bo an uncertain glance when she brought up what Zerxel might or might not do in the future to see her goals achieved.  She had no answer for her, no explanation or rationalizations, because she honestly didn't know herself.  That alone scared her more than a little, but whatever she might have said or didn't say on that particular topic didn't matter because Bo had said her piece and was already leaving the room.  Sighing one last time, Zerxel moved to follow, but a Judge appearing, bearing a message from Matron Baenre herself, stopped the drow rogue cold.  This was not what she had expected at all, and it only left her more uncertain than ever since now she knew someone as powerful and inherently malevolent was watching her with an unhealthy amount of interest.  She and her fellow drow of House Baenre to be precise, and that was an enemy even the rogue feared a great deal.  But the content of the message helped push Zerxel to a decision at least as she handed it back before quickly gathering her stuff and heading upstairs to find Bo, Tahkina, and get out of the tavern.  As much as she needed the spiderlings' help, having agreed to let Bo keep the treasure behind the golden door, an agreement she planned to keep since she wasn't about to follow the advice in the letter, Zerxel had grown to like Tahkina despite their brief time together.  While<em>physically </em>corrupted, as far as she'd been able to tell, the woman was still in her right mind, and that was far more useful to her than what she looked like.<br/><br/>That and despite being under the control of a gaess like spell from being reborn as a soul fruit through her womb, Zerxel wanted an honest opinion from someone that didn't know her as Bo did.  So she went back upstairs, hoping she might employ Tahkina's help in something.  She just hoped Lisa would be willing to listen, provided she was even able to get her own thoughts in order and say what she needed to say before she left and likely never returned to this place.