Editing Midnight RPG - Chapter 44.744 (section)

=== Kyuad ===

'''"Y<FONT size="1">ES.</font>  K<FONT size="1">AIEL AND </font>I <FONT size="1">HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HIS MILITARY SERVICE, AND </font>I <FONT size="1">AM WORKING ON A SOMEWHAT MAGICAL MEANS OF DETERMINING SOMETHING.</font>  A<FONT size="1">S </font>I <FONT size="1">HAVE BEEN WORKING, MY THOUGHTS HAVE TURNED TO LOSS.</font>"'''  Kyuad's voice sounds more lonely and warm than it has since his emergance from the Eye.  '''"I <FONT size="1">AM GLAD YOU ARE AWAKE, IT WOULD DO ME GOOD TO BE REMINDED OF FRIENDS WHO REMAIN.</font>"'''  Unwavering, the two points of redness float in the lightless room, shedding no light themselves, but observable on a more primal level.  It's almost as if the part of one's mind that senses fear marks those points, warning the rest of the observer's mind not to look there.

'''"T<FONT size="1">HUS FAR </font>I <FONT size="1">HAVE NOT KNOWN WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE AS </font>I <FONT size="1">AM NOW WITHOUT </font>N<FONT size="1">ISSE... OR, ''WITH'' THE PORTION OF ME THAT SHE HELD NOW RETURNED.</font>  I <FONT size="1">FIND IT SHOCKING HOW MUCH FULLER MY EMOTIONS ARE NOW THAT HER ESSENCE HAS REJOINED WITH MINE.  </font>I <FONT size="1">FEEL THE LOSS, NOT ONLY OF A COMPANION AND TRUSTED FRIEND, BUT ALSO OF THE ONE WHO LOOKED AFTER ALL OF US.  </font>I <FONT size="1">WAS NEVER CONFIDENT OF MY ABILITY TO FILL THAT ROLE, AND NOW THAT THE DESIRE TO DO SO HAS RETURNED, IT SEEMS WE WILL HAVE TO FIND OUT HOW CORRECT THAT DOUBT MAY BE.</font>"'''

Eranon can only guess what those eyes might see as they look through the room, gazing at the group of sleeping allies, and the legate whose continued existance is even less assured than the criminals with whom she travels.  '''"I <FONT size="1">REMEMBER A TIME WHEN </font>N<FONT size="1">ISSE FIRST CAME TO ME, SEEMINGLY SO LONG AGO.  </font>I <FONT size="1">FELT LIKE A CHILD THEN, IN A WAY.</font>"'''  The two points of redness blink once, and their absence from the room makes it obvious how rare this blink must be.  '''"Y<FONT size="1">OUR CHILDHOOD, </font>E<FONT size="1">RANON... WHAT WAS IT LIKE</font>?  I<FONT size="1">T WAS LONG AGO, WAS IT NOT</font>?  T<FONT size="1">ELL ME OF IT, OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE AN ELF OF THE </font>C<FONT size="1">ARAHEEN.</font>"'''


:: ''<font color="gray">Note: Eranon doesn't remember ever seeing Nisse before Kyuad created her on the way through the swamps.</font>''