[Kythras]

She didn't notice when the door opened. Only noticing that Sh'rarn was in the room when he sat down next to her head. She was kneeling on the floor, her head and part of her chest on the matress of the bed. Tway turned her head away from Sh'rarn, not wanting him to see her like this; puffy-eyed and with tear-stained cheeks. But she was more and very pleased he had come to her. It took a minute or two for her to get her voice back.

"It-it was just that Dr-drow... the way he talked, like he knew ever-everything and the-the whole world revolved ar-around him" She gave a long shuddering sigh. "Th-then he gave that r-rubbish about me ha-having an easy life, and I just c-couldn't stand it" She burried her head in the bedclothes, choking back sobs. Great! The one time Sh'rarn actually displays some affection for her, she has to be incapacitated with melancholia...