Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5543592-20141007044356/@comment-11457306-20141012163327

Lab Coat Billy wrote: Dralnach nodded in answer but still shifted in place uncomfortably, an indicator that he was once again getting the feeling that he owed her greatly.

"Daria?" Dralnach asked, taking a moment to clear his mind from his thoughts of debt as he turned his attention back to Daria. "When you said that the man who betrayed you made you feel beautiful... well, why?" the Reachman asked. Daria floated closer to him, lifting an eyebrow. How to answer this without hurting his feelings? She was silent a moment, trying to come up with the right way to say it. Truly she'd been away from court too long. She was out of practice.

"He had a gift for wooing the ladies, Dral.  He knew what to say and what not to say, how to look at you and how to...well, never mind that part.  Have you ever seen a Bard at work trying to win the affections of a woman?  He sings to her, tells her she's beautiful--that he can't live without her, that sort of thing.  Surely you've known someone who seemed to be able to wrap the women around his little finger?

He was handsome too. My mother warned me, but I wouldn't listen. He was my first love.

Tears gathered in her eyes and she turned away from him. "I don't know why you ask me such questions, Dral.  Why are you so curious about my past?  I don't want to remember my past.  It represents everything I can never have again."

Her voice broke on the last words.