<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/XpRMu7s.jpg)</div><br/>The paladin threw back the curtain and moved the lit candelabra to the edge of the table.  He gestured to Miyuki's drink, or the bottle if her wine glass was empty and said,<strong>"Have another half a glass, what I tell you may be a bit shocking for those who are unfamiliar with it and it will be a few moments most likely before one of the waitresses sees the candles." </strong>True enough it was a few moments before the blonde woman, Dawn, arrived at the edge of the table eager to serve.  Paladin Etron shook four gold coins from his belt pouch and pressed them into Dawn's hand,<strong>"I'll require the rent of one of the smaller suites tonight please Dawn, I fear I may have drank too much to make it home safely.  If you could bring me the key as soon as possible, any of the small suites would be fine as long as there is a privy and a bed."</strong><br/><br/>She nodded and in a very professional way, kept her eyes from sliding over to Miyuki.  Returning a few minutes later with a key that she gave to the paladin saying,<strong> "Suite three sir."</strong><br/><br/>Etron waited until Dawn had left before leading Miyuki down the hall and to the set of stairs that led upwards.  Traveling all the way up to the third floor he led her down another hall and stopped at a door marked with S3.  Upon entering the suite it would be much as Miyuki was expecting, bed, table, chair, foot chest, stand beside the bed that bore a small candle.  Etron entered and lit the candle from the light of the hallway before closing and locking the door.<br/><br/>Then he would take a deep breath and look at miyuki,<strong>"Do not be afraid,"</strong>he would say cryptically.  Then his form began to change, the features smoothing and blurring as flesh shifted around, grew softer, the facial hair stubble disappearing, the skin growing lighter, lighter, to a milk white color.  The armor about his body changed too, vanishing as if under an illusion and miyuki could only watch as the paladin in front of her, once a strong rugged man changed to the shape of a still somewhat strong looking.... woman?  No, not a woman, for no woman she'd ever met looked like this.  Pale eyes lacking any color or pupil, lips and nipples that were grey, and skin and hair that were white.<br/><br/><strong>"I am what's known as a changeling.  Some point in the past I had an ancestor who was a doppelganger and it's blood has flowed through my family's veins for generations.  I was born and given the name Jinn Etron, a female of my kind as you see here.  But I can take on various forms, and my armor is designed to garb me in illusionary clothing as I see fit.  Paladin Etron is one of my two most commonly taken forms.  Now you know the secret that only half a dozen other people in Laelith know.  So tell me Miyuki, does this horrify you?"</strong>