<em>Damn, this is bad. Not as bad as it could be, but not as good as if I had just left her alone. She would have broken her shell eventually, and without my distortions. Oh well. Lets see... So if I leave then, she is still independent, but open and willing to share relationships. So, I do that, get her mother back, and then deal with the dracolich that is causing the rot. Convient 'death', and I can move on to another location, and try this again, but a bit wiser that time.</em><br/><br/>Viewing the future was always uncertain, but he would do the best he could. After all, no mortal was ever really prepared to become a god. He lay down beside the elf woman, and pulled her against him, carefully noting that during what he suspected would be the final battle against the self proclaimed dragon lord would be the best time for him to 'die'.