>>5681078"Never done any-" she cuts herself off, now so livid that her complexion has adopted a scarlet tone. "Biir Dhaerow! Your kind down to the very last are naught but demons clad in mortal flesh! Against my will, I witnessed firsthand the cruelty of your abominable race, and so long as I draw breath, I will oppose you!"
"Amaranth, our fellows and I... when we still relished the thrill of adventure, found ourselves captured as we fought to drive Lolth's spawn from these lands. For months, they inflicted every horror upon us that they could dream up. They..." she seizes up, fighting back tears. "They pinned my eyelids open and forced me to watch helplessly as they carved up my sister, tearing her still-beating heart from her chest to serve as an offering to their goddess."
Smiling defiantly, she goes on. "Yet we were not defeated. Amaranth, Protector bless him, somehow managed to free us with his magics soon after. Our vengeance was righteous that day, as we butchered traitors dozen after dozen. At the end of our ordeal, only the two of us remained alive, but the Realms were better for our deeds."
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>I have lived through worse. She should get over it.>I, too, have suffered greatly at the hands of the priestesses, for what it is worth.>[Remain silent.]