" 'Course it didn't. He was a coward who picked on farm-girls... no offense... an' ain't never had ta deal with someone who could put up a real fight."<br/><br/>The monk gives the woman a mollifying smile and removes her tunic so that the other woman can have at least some sort of decency. Her male form is pretty tall, so it should give the woman at least a little hanging room as a psuedo-skirt. And she can always take her male form again when they leave the cave to avoid any decency issues of her own.<br/><br/>"I don' suppose you can lead us ta the other prisoners? Sooner we get y'all outta here, the sooner we can let this damned cult rot an' be forgotten like it should..."<br/><br/>A bit brusque, perhaps, but Maria had never been one for the whole social niceties thing. Which is part of why she doesn't like all the hero nonsense she keeps getting in town... heroes have to be sociable, and she's not so good at that. It's honestly amazing to her that she's bonded so well with Lissu.<br/><br/><em>And the elf... I need to go back and take this dagger to her when we go back to town. See if I can take the shard out of it and put it somewhere safer...</em><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Am I right in thinking the shard is actually in the dagger / is the dagger?</div></div>