Character Folder (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tuf_0QOYAveyepRcQ_DaLfHbmY46VgMH)<br/><br/>Firell answered her senior with a slow, elegant half bow, eyes shutting gracefully as her head lowered.  “I am well, friend Felllis.  I hope the information my friends helped me to uncover on Teska Colony can be put to good use.”<br/><br/>Firell was one of the first of the religious caste to join the Rangers.  At the age of seventeen she'd earned a position as aide to the Minbari ambassador to the Drazi—a man who had asked the elders of his caste to send him an aide who retained some of the cultural and linguistic flexibility of an adolescent.  In the last three years of her adolescence, Firell had repeatedly spent several months at a time immersed in Drazi culture, trying to understand the apparent paradox of the species, a successful if minor space faring culture who appeared to others to be of childlike intellect and adolescent temperament.<br/><br/>It was a very long story indeed how this had lead—four years ago—to Firell bringing a small fleet of warrior caste Minbari to the defense of a Drazi colony assailed by a mysterious foe.  It was during that battle that she'd befriended a Wind Sword pilot—Shakiri—with whom she had shared her first kiss.  This was also her introduction to the Anla-Shok, who had quietly supported her request for intercession, hoping to learn if the mysterious invaders were or were backed by the Great Enemy who  was to come.<br/><br/>In her first mission as a Ranger, Firell had traveled to a Narn colony world, accompanied again by Shakiri, to investigate a man stirring up decent and calling for a war of revenge against the Centuari.  It was here she met Mandy—a technomage with unique insights into the Enemy—and Li Tari—a young Narn warrior who was at first a follower of the man they were investigating—who seemed to be a man of deep spiritual insight.  It was Li Tari who was able to find the flaws in the man's teachings that let her declare him a false prophet and turn his followers away from their call for war.<br/><br/>“My wounds have mended.  I am rested and invigorated, prepared for a new assignment.  I wish to express on behalf of my friend Li'Tari her sincere commitment to our mutual cause.”<br/><br/>It was a very delicate way of putting things—skirting the borders of deception.  Li'Tari was understandably furious at the Centauri renewal of hostilities against her people.  It had taken all three of them<em>and</em>the insight she'd gained into the Great Enemy from her own deconstruction of Their false prophet's teachings to persuade Li'Tari that her people would be better served seeking the instigator of these wars than by bringing her own sword—and Mandy's fire—to the defense of the Narn.<br/><br/>Mandy then gave a surprisingly good imitation of the Centari bow before adding, “It is an honor to join my efforts to those of the Anla'shok, Fellis.  With the darkness looming before us, all goodly folk must stand together.”<br/><br/>The redhead was young, and her fair, lightly freckled face made her look younger.  Though still in awe of the human's almost inexplicable power, Firell was starting to see a lot of herself in the girl—little more than an adolescent, but willingly taking up the burden that fell to her.