Hanging it up?

[Ophante]

*He nods slowly and smiles at Tre* Hey, I never said anything about leaving the Guard. I'm just questioning where I'm meant to be.

*He shakes his head and takes a deep breath* The Guard is also about helping to expand the sphere of influence of the Dark Elf race. It takes others than spellhowlers and shillien knights to pull it off.

[Tregarde]

She smiled faintly and spoke in a slightly amused tone. “Of course it takes more than them.” she waved her arms slowly in elegant arcs and swayed her torso a small amount while still sitting. “It also takes a Blade Dancer to show off a little and get people to drool a bit. That always puts them off guard a little.”

[Ophante]

*He snickers and shakes his head, smirking* Yeah, it gets the blood pumping.. men and women alike seem to fight harder when you're shaking your stuff. Of course, it always helps to have some voices to give you a beat.

[Tregarde]

She chuckled silently for a couple seconds, then took a deep breath. For a moment she forgot about Jess… just a moment. She looked across the field, at nothing in particular.

“So much has happened, and you have been on the receiving end of a lot of it. For a while I questioned my faith in Shilen, I have seen so many horrible things happen to make me wonder if She really is worth my devotion. I joined the Guard for Risa, and because I do believe that the cultists need to be stopped. If She was let lose now, She would destroy the world, and I don’t want that to happen.”

“Strangely enough, it was Jess’ death that restored my faith. She has dodged death three times…” she wiped at her eyes, “been given three chances to be with us. And even if this last chance was so short, how can anyone be so blessed if she isn’t meant to be? Even if She is a goddess filled with hate, She still has compassion.”

[Ophante]

*He nodded and rested his hand on her shoulder, giving it a comforting squeeze* There is balance in everything, Tre. That is something that is just now coming to me.. even in the most vicious, hardened killing machines, there is still compassion. They just take great care not to show it, or dress it as something else.

[Tregarde]

Tregarde took a long breath. “Balance? I doubt that’s how it works. I can’t believe there is some cosmic force that says for every good act there must be an evil act to ‘balance it out’. If that were so, then what’s the point? Why do good things at all, when something evil must also come from it?”

She shook her head slowly, faintly. “My uncle was a jokester, but sometimes he actually dealt out wisdom. One thing I’ll never forget is when he said, ‘I’m glad this world isn’t fair, then it would mean we deserve all the crap that comes down on us’.”