<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/39/0c482e6bbfb1ee02926a0699b94a1db3.png)</div>The temptation was there, as Elizanyrra looked around the tavern from her spot at a table a little further away from the fireplace, to fall back into old habits.  Short, snowy days made for long, cold, lonely nights, and the instinctive desire for mortals who were less resistant to the elements was always to huddle together for warmth, to share space around the fire... or in bed together.  Even though she had come into town in the guise of a Tiefling, looked at with distrust and suspicion by some within the town of Oakhurst, even after she had also revealed her status as a Paladin, it would have been quite easy for her as a Succubus to lure in some lonely, foolish, or drunken mortal, and then show them a night that they would never forget... or survive.  Of course, she was a Paladin, and more than that a Paladin of Heironeous, approved by the Arch-Paladin himself as a staunch ally of justice, so she was resisting the temptations offered by her more predatory instincts, but they were still there nonetheless.<br/><br/>It helped that she could find a meaning in these festivities that so many other fiends would miss.  Camaraderie and good cheer, time spent drinking, singing, and dancing with others, all could help to soothe a loneliness that few demons ever even realized that they felt.  The chance to simply relax and enjoy the company of others, to let go of all the little games of domination and all the constant jockeying for personal power, the simpler pleasures of life that she was only able to experience by denying her own nature...  Her redemption was something that had only happened by random chance, but seeing how the mortals gathered together at the Dreamy Dryad were trying to make their own little point of light in one of the darkest parts of the year, being able to appreciate their efforts, left her glad that it had happened.<br/><br/>"Looking to play the musician tonight, Marros?"  Elizanyrra commented, her inherently soft and sultry voice sounding mildly amused, as she watched the man's combined musical and magical performance.  "I'm sure Meridia could give you some pointers."