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Bastet laughed and shook her head at the elf, "What two days? You can not handle that? Neither can I right now anyway." She noticed the unused room and empty bed, "Oh how convenient, like we will not sleep anywhere anyway." The woman went inside with her elf since the hag would not escape and she would never turn up the chance to be with Nelphean.

Alicia was in a great deal of pain. Her body felt broken and bloodied and she didn't want to move, but she didn't want anyone to see her like this either. The Proud Whore, they all called her. They thought she was good and she knew that came from years of experience. Her father had personally taught when she was younger and then told her he would be very happy if she made money in this way. She opened her eyes and moved slightly, then had to smother her scream of pain. This was all that b***h Merre's fault. Had she stayed away, the men would still want her and she would be of use to her father. Now she was worthless. Merre had made her very unhappy and she opened her mouth and said in a sing-song voice, "Kitty hurt me. Kitty likes Merre. Kitty and Merre. Merre hurt me and kitty's gonna kill her." She giggled once like a child and laid back down to rest her aching body.

Nailah woke long after seven and happily snuggled into the sheets and soft pillows. It was almost like home but she had a job to do. After lookign at her new clothes in delight she pulled off the rags that Cym had left on underneath.She quickly surveyed the damage. She opened doors to see if everyone was alright and came across Alicia. "Alicia?" The girl was a bloody pile on the floor and Niah shook her head when she saw Cymarron's handiwork. She couldn't be mad at him because she had probably deserved it. But Niah couldn't leave her like that either. She walked to the girl and used her magic to heal the worst of her cuts. The bruises would have to stay, she didn't have her ointment and a few more no one would notice anyway. Niah felt bad for the girl. She had had a hard life and been forced to be a whore the way she was. Maybe she would take her back to the manor when she left. Niah pulled the girl over to a bed and left her there. She hadn't touched the Eye of Ra thinking it as a reminder to anyone. "Cymarron...thank you my friend." Then she headed downstairs to see that the inn was sparkling and ready to be opened for business. There was no way in hell she was going to tell Dobbs the danger was over. She'd make as much money as she could and then get the hell out of dodge.

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For the first time in days, she could leave the small room beneath the manor, Kira was set free as Johnavon's master returned to whence it came. Shivering and weak, she actually managed to move Johnavon's sleeping body up to their room and leave him in thier bed. There was nothing left to do but pick up the pieces and move forward, like every other time this had happened. Body still shaking in terror, she picked up the folded notebook from her desk and stumbled out into the halls. Eventually she found her way into the kitchen and hit a chair hard, tears still streaming from her eyes.

Both pairs of eyes scanned over to Kira. And almost simultaneously two pairs of wolf ears flattened against dark hair. Well...he could add another name onto the ever growing list. Seemed Kira fit right above Saradin and Aura at this point. He adjust Ecara in his arms again then cleared his throat."Kira?"

She continued to chew on her piece of jerky, almost out of what seemed to be distraction as she watched Kira. Again someone she had never met. "You are...sad too..." Observational and blunt as ever.

"Actually Kira. This isn't normal for us. People don't just go around sulking and crying. We frown on that in fact." Walking over, he set Ecara down on the table and leaned forward against the table himself, palm flat against its surface. He twitched his ears, "Come on, tell old Eclipse what's wrong."

Ecara merely crawled across the table, sitting on her knees behind Kira's laptop, trying not to look obvious that she she was sniffing the air around the thing and around Kira herself.

A pet received a smile...until she started sulking again, which Ecara merely halfway mimicked out of her own displeasure for the general mood of the manor. "No sad Kira."

Eclipse straightened his posture and walked around the table to be standing off to the side of the girl. One hand reached out to pet Ecara as well. "Yes, she is. Her name's Ecara. And she's tougher than she looks. Believe me, she's already seen a man die, and seen a few others loosing their minds. She understands it, but in a child like way, doesn't pay to much attention to it. An optimist I suppose. Her only problem is blood." And encouraging look to her. "Come on."

"She's been spared those atrocities. In a sense anyway. She knows the definitions from her reading, but if I have my way she'll never personally know them. Already she's guaranteed protection from feeling physical pain. It brings some solace, even if only a little." Letting his ear rotate around a few moment listening he returned to his words and placing a hand on her shoulder. "Sold his soul...to hell I presume...it the main market for that type of business." Both hands on the table now and he tapped shorts claws on the surface as he rolled over his words in his head. "Feeling guilty that he did it for you?"