<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Wait just a moment, ye crazy lass." he called out. "Ye don't have the road in ye, can tell that much just by looking at ye. Meself was burned in the past for trusting blindly, but if ye leave now, ye'll just collapse or be torn to pieces by wild animals. Ye be helping no one."</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"But..."  She really wanted to go, for the sake of her village, even if it meant her dying in vain.  At least her heart would be in the right place even if it doomed her.  But Beliam was insistent.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"If it means so much to ye, ol' Belaim has something that can save yer kin, or give them time to move or fight. 'Tis precious however, and can't give it freely, even if I want to help ye, desperate lass. Ye have nothing to trade, and I won't ask for what ye wouldn't give me willingly...but this old smith been alone for years and near crazy from isolation. Could use a strong arm around me forge or pretty voice in me cabin, if only for a while."</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Jalna frowned at this, uncertain of its meaning though she suspects it would be something she'll regret.  She decided to humor the dwarf and wait for him fetch something among his belongings, not that she had the strength to move any further even though her determination of getting back was strong though a bit shaky.  The weary barbarian girl was only mildly amazed when she saw the figurine shown to her magically turn into a real live raven.  Something about it then made her recall of the stories told to her by her mother, of such wonders back in the old world she came from before coming to live with the Kuhru.  A magical messenger of sorts Beliam confirms, and only in exchange for...<br/><br/>"So you wish of me servitude under you, in exchange for a chance to warn my people?  Am I assuming this as correct?  Jalna has very little choice.  She is in no condition to continue on.  At least with this, they would have a chance to be warned and decide on their course of action against the impending threat. Though she very much wished she would there with them and be of help rather than being her now, with this somewhat shady dwarf.