<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/29/Guardian_Druidess.png)</div><hr/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;">Shara, the Bog-Druid (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=332178.msg15843903#msg15843903)</span></strong></span><br/><hr/><em>Lvl 4 Human Female Druid</em><br/><strong>HP:</strong>40<br/><strong>AC:</strong>16<br/><strong>Standard Perception:</strong>12<hr/>Shara quizzically tilted her head, a faint frown passing her features.  "The Barrier ... kept you in, predators out? For how long?"  It was possible that the Barrier itself was a part of the cause of the ... broken-ness of her home, but she was inclined to think that it was just a structure to preserve the place of Tide Pool during its time in the Outside Places.  It was natural for all creatures to hope to preserve themselves in the face of threats - or the strange - but such an idea sat poorly with her.  A closed system,<em>disallowed</em>to decay, was just as unnatural as the Outside Places.  She didn't like it - it felt like dry sand across her toes, rubbing at the skin.<br/><br/>Then again, that could have been the sand in her shoes.<br/><br/>She looked to her burly companion, her eyes narrowed in disgust, an expression she'd not worn when she was crushing the life of a centipede with her fingers.  "Outside the barrier would have been ... left to the Outside Places to taste, drink and seed.  That may be the poison in the brightness..."  She trailed off and shook her head, recentering to try to find a clarity that Khaldrash could hear. "I think," she began haltingly, clearly struggling with some internal barrier, "The master should not stay in Tide Pool too long."  She didn't explain her thoughts, struggling as she was to articulate them.