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Taking the piece of chocolate she was offered she first sniffed it, then took a bite and chewed, then swallowed. It had that same odd taste that the cheese cake had. A fanged smile and she looked up to Niah. "Sweet." She knew she had gotten that one right and once again turned to he mother. "Mommy," A point to the cheese cake and chocolate. No response and she huffed then turned back to Niah. Reaching up she took the orange that Niah had in her hand...and started chewing on it, trying to use her fangs to break it's skin to get at what she wanted inside. Still hungry.

He just watched with amusement.

"Cheesecake. Bah. nothing is sweeter than a good peice of meat. especially Ogre meat. so fat and big and juicy becuase all they do all day is hurt eachother and others and sit around."

Not to mention personal reasons..the Breakers had been ogres. it was almost a genocidal need to strike back at that race.

"Cymarron thinks he may have something to perk up the rest here. Cymarron's learned when he learned to make alcoholic drinks.."

and he began rumaging around for supplies, vanilla extracts, tons of sugar, ice cream, and eggnog. when he located all his supplies, and put them all in a bowl and mixed them with his usual hunting speed of hand, and poured the concoction into glasses for everyone.

"the barbarian called it a sugar suicide. Cymarron never made one for himself, but though it might be something to give others here a slightly bit of enjoyment."

He passed out glasses, until he remembered Eclipse wasn't humanoid, and poured his is a bowl. then he sat, waiting for someone else to try it first.

Niah looked at Ecara and smiled "Very good Ecara." The girl picked things up so quickly. It was amazing how fast her mind worked. She looked at Aura in shock. "What do you mean gone?" Niah felt an icy cold grip her. "Aura does this have something to do with what happened the night before last?" She knew she was pressing her boundaries here but at this point she didn't care. "It does doesn't it. You fought with him." It was not a question. "Or you know who did. You know why he's gone and you know why Soulforge is broken. Aura...I know it's hard but please tell me what happened." Niah sensed the sadness in Aura become even worse. There was also a taste of fear. Fear of what though? Did she think Niah would hold her responsible if something had happened to Saradin? Niah didn't know what to think at this point. She sighed and looked at the glass in front of her. She stared at it for a moment and then took a small sip. She swished it around in her mouth for a minute and said "Sweet. Interesting name...sugar suicide...I'm wondering if there are some side effects I need to watch out for."

"Honestly...I don't know what happened to Soulforge, I found it already broken outside my door...Saradin didn't use it when we fought...yes, we fought him, me and Eclipse. He wasn't himself...at all...and he wanted to kill me." She shook her head almost as if not believing her own story, as it was replaying in her head as she explained it to her audience. "He transformed...his true shadow powers emerging...my sais...were shattered and busted by him...we fought till Eclipse came, then they fought..." A pause. "Then we used Ecara...and...that's it...I woke up in the infirmary..." A almost void look over to Cymarron as she acknowledged him. "Saradin is a trusted friend..."

Ecara gave a whimper, abandoning her orange to come to her mother, leaning her head in her lap for comforts sake. "Mommy."

Lifting Ecara into her lap, she stroked the small wolf girl's hair, an action of comfort for them both. Then she gave a bitter laugh. "It is my fault Niah. We fought for something I did that no one else outside a small group knows about. A secret I kept from a few of you. But there's no misplaced blame here, this time it really is my fault. I'm sorry Niah." She paused and sighed, hugging Ecara. Now she was just remembering using the poor child as a tool...and even though it was her true purpose it felt so wrong to even think of such a thing.

Aura's hands came up to cover Ecara's little wolfish ears, not wanting the girl to hear what she was about to say. She gave a half smile when Ecara's hands came up as well to help shield her own ears. Aura then looked from the table to Niah. "A man named Khai was here once. A friend of mine from the village who betrayed me and threatened everyone here...even hurt Khenu. In my revenge I sought on him I subjected him to torture down in the basement in one of the vaults. He eventually died, not by my hands, but died none the less. Saradin...I don't know how he found out...but he spoke of justice to my act of cruelty as he put it." She paused again, eyes slightly shifting to Ecara. "Ecara...is what's called a bond child. Something that can be created from those who are soul bound. A bond child...is a catalyst to a merge that can be done between bond partners...the ultimate linking and sharing of powers and abilities between them. We used her against Saradin...turned her into her "warrior form" if you will. I hated doing it...but Saradin had even turned Eclipse against me...we would of all died..."

Niah listened to her story and waited while she absorbed it. "We have all done horrible things Aura. I myself have killed and mine was not even justified." She shook her head beating back painful memories. "It sounds like yours was justified. Especially since the people in the manor were in danger. You were doing what was best for everyone. And I can't find any fault with you for that." She bit her lip for a moment and thought about Saradin. "Maybe he misunderstood." She could think of no other reason why he might try to kill him. She looked at teh little girl and nodded. "That's interesting." She thought about it for a minute. "I'll bet she's a heck of a warrior." She looked at Cymarron. "Don't even think about giving that to Tyler." she nodded at the drink. The boy would be on a sugar high in fifteen seconds flat.