Bast mewed in pain before coming concious.  Then she looked down at the missing wound and turned a sincerly dazzling smile on the water elemental.  "10,000 thanks, Amenech!"  She kissed the elemenal on the ide of his crocodillian nose, then kipped to her feet and took stock of the situation.<br/><br/>Noting the fallen dragon blooded and doing her best to review her recent memories, she smiled at Kaiser "Live and learn.  Maybe he could have ben cut down by skill alone without exhausting his essence."<br/><br/>She stretched sensualy, then sheathed her silver kopesh at her bac, where they vanished.<br/><br/>Next she leapt to te other ship, and crossed to the wounded officer who'd surendered.  She aproached, in the midst of a pillar of moonlight, with perfect grace and inhuman beauty to the sway of her curved hips, the light playing perfectly over her sensual curves and unmared form to assure the other woman in a way unqiue to women tat she was as much the superior between the two as a love goddess was to a wife, a celestial courtesean to a was to a comon harlot.<br/><br/>(4 motes spent raising Bast's appearence to 10 for this check.)<br/><br/>"I could learn to like you, Cynis," she purred, first touching the officer's sholders, then putting her outfit in order with almost big sisterly affection, the goddess of beauty sharing her largess with the meer human damsel.  "You care for your people. We have that in common.  One of my people was stolen by House Cynis 4 years ago.  She was just a babe at the time, but flame ducks can age faster than humans.  I need to know if you know anything to help me find her.  No harm will come to you if you are ignorant, but you won't like what will happen if you like to me."