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Date Posted: 03:19:13 02/14/02 Thu
Author: Jade
Subject: Anybody got any spare clothes?
In reply to: Rowan 's message, "NOW we're together" on 14:30:14 02/13/02 Wed

Jade smiled mysteriously at the man who had gone to work on her shackle. He pulled out something he used on it... probably to check for traps. "It's not trapped," she said quietly. "At least... it had better not be or you can call me 'Ilene'." She grinned.

The man was too busy concentrating on his work to appreciate her slick humor, so she just watched him as he deftly picked the lock and her shackle fell away. "Thank you," she said, kicking the thing away from her. Her ankle was raw from the metal rubbing against her skin for days on end. She reached down, rubbing her ankle as if in pain, but when she stood up the injuries were nearly healed.

"I guess it's time for introductions," the man said, then introduced everyone present. She nodded to each of them, giving Erlic a particularly enigmatic look. "What might we call you?" Ravin asked. "And, how did you end up in the ruins of Twilight as a prisoner of the Sharm?"

"You can call me anything you like, as long as it's Jade," she said, chuckling. "I was investigating these ruins with a partner when we were attacked by the Sharm. My idiot partner ran off and left me to defend myself against five armed Sharm men. Well, I'm good but I'm not superhuman and the outcome was inevitable... although one of those men will have difficulty fathering children in the future." She gave an impish grin, her green eyes twinkling.

"They brought me to the tower here, stripped me, and locked me in the cell. Before long a couple of them came in and performed this weird ritual where they shaved off my hair.... all of it! I think the little twit who shaved my... um... nether regions... enjoyed himself a little too much because he got a talking to when they thought they were out of earshot."

"They then proceeded to beat me, verbally abuse me, starve me, and torture me in an attempt to get me to convert to their weird religion. Frankly, I was thinking of just telling them I'd seen the light to get them to stop," she said with a hint of wry amusement.

Jade shrugged. "And that's my sordid tale." She looked around at them, noticing that a few new people had arrived. "Um... I hate to be a bother but you may have noticed that I don't have any clothes. Anyone got any spares?"

Okay so she hadn't told them she was a mage. They didn't really need to know that... not yet. She didn't know these people from Fizzban and there were just some things better kept to herself for the moment.

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