<div class="floatright"><div align="center">Lisa</div>(http://i.imgur.com/S1SsSzu.jpg)</div><br/>Lisa nodded her head,<strong>"I met Tahkina earlier, she looks quite a bit different then she did back at the temple.  Just another reason that I decided to stay here.  She and Ruta are both in the basement, visiting with some of the other contestants from previous years.  Tahkina has said that she can not choose to stay unless you give her leave to do so.  I understand, she owes you her life, she can not make her own choice.  As for Ruta, my lover, my friend, I'm hoping she decides to stay here with me, but she is not yet convinced.  She is in the contestants quarters downstairs, trying to make her decision.  I feel bad, if she decides to go on without me.  But this place is everthing I loved about working my father's tavern as a young girl, but more.  To live forever, to experience pleasure and joy... why go on?"</strong><br/><br/>She shrugged and Zerxel could see Bo gritting her teeth, her jaw clenched so hard that it must hurt.  Obviously Bo felt much the same as Zerxel.  Lisa was not strong like the two of them were, she wasn't magically gifted.  She was just a peasant girl, raised in a tavern, and faced with a sort of 'escape' from the dungeon.  But it wouldn't really be an escape, would it?  Still Bo managed to spit, through clenched teeth,<strong> "We're very happy for you Lisa, but maybe you could send Tahkina up?  Let her know we're getting ready to head out?"</strong><br/><br/>Lisa nodded her head,<strong>"Sure, but wouldn't you like to come downstairs and meet some of the other girls?  One of them was a contestant in the fourteenth dungeon run.  Can you imagine that?  The fourteenth!" </strong>Her view took in Zerxel, waiting to see if the bathing drow felt differently than the dwarf.