Luinith Ngarmo: Thanks for the review. Here's chapter 2. I was actaully worried that my chapters were too long and wondered whether i should shorten them and have more chapters or keep it the way it is. I've never written for an audience before so this is a new experience for me. I hope you enjoy this chapter as well.

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Chapter 2 - Blood Raven

It was morning, but the dark clouds let in only a small amount of sunlight as they loomed overhead threatening to start a new downpour. The clouds seemed to concentrate over the area where the Monastary graveyard was and where many of the greatest Rogue warriors lay. Kashya leader of the rogue warriors in battle had already awoke and stood at the walls of the encampment looking out noticing the veil of darkness the clouds produced over the graveyard.

"Kashya, you're thinking of Raven aren't you?" Paige said.

"Yes," Kashya said sadly, "I know that what she did was neccessary, but I can't help feeling that there might have been another way."

"We all lost many friends that day." Paige said, "But Raven was our greatest leader."

"She was more than that." Kashya said. "She was our friend and our sister."

"I was sure she could defeat those demons and come after us."

Kashya nodded. "I felt the same way and she had many of our elite warriors by her side, but fighting inside the Monastary is difficult for archers so they had a disadvantage. I'll always remember how she ordered us to retreat out into the wilderness and away from the vile demons while she remained behind fighting against an overwhelming number of them."

"She did delay them long enough for us to escape at least. We owe her our lives."

"Yet without Akara many of us wouldn't have come together. She was the one everyone came here for and she led us in Ravens absence, not I."

"Raven chose you to lead us."

"Akara and Raven were always the leaders everyone followed. Akara for her knowledge and wisdom and Raven for her outstanding leadership capabilities."

"I know you have done your best in Ravens stead and the others respect you."

"It's difficult to stay strong especially in this time when many of our sisters have fallen and the Monastary has been overrun by demons."

"With luck we will be able to defeat Andariel and reclaim the Monastary."

"Liene always argues that we should attack rather than just stay here and wait for death to come to us and I wonder what Raven would do. Would she just conserve our strength or strike at the Monastary itself?"

"You know how difficult it is to take the Monastary from the outside better than any of us." Paige said. "It would be suicide."

"I know." Kashya replied. "It's just that in some ways Liene reminds me of Raven when she was younger. She was never satisfied by merely standing at the walls defending the Monastary. She always called us into action attacking those who retreated from the Monastary walls including Battle Maiden Serinna the traitor."

"I remember her." Paige said. "She was a master at melee combat."

"I'm fed up of following your leadership!" Serinna said angrily drawing her hand axe and swinging it at Raven who jumped out of the way.

"Why?" Raven asked watching the other Rogue closely.

"I should be the leader of the Rogue warriors!"

"Then let's duel and the winner will become the leader." Raven said drawing her bow and notching an arrow.

"Fine!" Serinna said. "I will kill you when I win!"

Raven quickly fired the arrow at Serinna and notched another. The arrow was targetted to do the maximum amount of damage without killing her. Ravens goal was to disable Serinna and force her to stop fighting rather than to kill her. Serinna blocked the arrow with her shield easily and it clatterred to the floor. The force of the blow would have been enough to make any other Rogue stumble, but Serinna's strength was unprecadented in the ranks of the Rogues and she stood firm. "You'll have to do better than that, oh great leader!" she said grinning as she charged forward towards Raven axe in one hand shield in the other her eyes fixed on Ravens bow watching for the next attack.

Raven stayed silent concentrating and in a hearbeat had notched another arrow and sent it flying towards Serinna. This time the arrow exploded on impact with Serinna's shield and forced her to stop charging for a second. The attack had done some minor damage, but it was really nothing she couldn't handle. What the attack had done was remind Serinna of Ravens prowess with the bow. A direct charge had never worked against her in the past even with a shield to deflect the arrows as they came, which was a skill Serinna had mastered so she changed her tactics. She rolled under Ravens next arrow as it came towards her and swung at Raven with her axe.

Raven drew her short sword with lightning speed and used it to block the attack and Serinna felt an arrow hit her in the back causing her to cry out in pain. "Clever," Serinna said. "A guided arrow." The brief time which the successful attack gave Raven was enough for her to escape from melee combat and notch another arrow into her bow. She fired it and it hit just where Raven had wanted. In Serinna's shield arm making her drop the shield. This only managed to anger Serinna even more and she charged again brandishing her axe. This time Raven used her magic to make the arrow split into several bolts each one impacting Serinna at different critical points disabling her movements and making her fall to the ground.

"Damn!" Serinna said angrily. "You win."

"It would have been wise to surrender when you lost your shield instead of blindly charging at me." Raven said. "You need to anticipate your opponents moves more and prepare for them before they attack."

"That's why you used a guided arrow."

"Yes." Raven said. "Since you tried to kill me you are to leave here and never return."

"Why don't you kill me? I will always be your enemy."

"I don't believe in taking a life unless it is absolutely neccessary."

"How kind of you." Serinna said scornfully.

"That duel between Raven and Serinna taught all of us alot about how to fight when she told us of it." Paige said. "Had Raven not used a guided arrow at that point she would have been at a disadvantage."

"Even so Raven's prowess in melee combat was second only to Serinnas." Kashya replied. "Regardless we need to scout out the area to discover what the demons movements are now that the cave has been cleared. Get the others."

"Yes, of course."

Paige went to a few tents to awaken some of the sleeping Rogues and returned to where Kashya was at the wall with a group of ten.

"Warriors, you are to scout out the nearby area and find out what you can about the demons movements. May the great eye watch over you all."

"Yes sir!"" the rogue warriors replied leaving the camp to explore the wilderness as they had done so many times before.

When the scouting party returned it was about mid-day. The scouts leader quickly went to kashya's tent and entered. "I have bad news." she said.

"What is it?" Kashya replied.

At the scouts reply Kashya's face went pale and headed towards Akara's tent straight away.Moments later she left Akara's tent and walked towards the tent that Kirara was staying in. As she entered she spoke. "Come with me."

"Okay." Kirara said. She was a little scared of this woman. She was the one who she had seen before Akara had requested her aid.

The two women headed towards Akara's tent once more not speaking to each other as they approached the tent. It was Akara who spoke next. "Greetings child. I'm afraid i have another burden i must lay upon your shoulders."

"No, i can't fight these demons! They're too strong for me!"

"I know child, but you're the only hope we have." Akara said sadly."Kashya, tell her what we have just learned."

"My rogue scouts have just imformed me that Raven, leader of the rogue warriors before me and my closest friend is not at peace." Kashya said her whole body shaking as she suppressed her emotions. After a moment she continued. "Now, as Blood Raven, she has been raised from the dead to serve the infernal masters of hell and she has been raising our dead and forcing them to aid her. It seems that not only do we have to defeat the demonic army that originally assaulted our monastary, but we have to kill our own as well." Kashya's whole body trembled her eyes brimming with unshed tears.

"You were close to her weren't you?" Akara said.

Kashya merely nodded afraid that if she openied her mouth to speak then she wouldn't be able to suppress the sobs that would betray her grief. When Raven had died, Kashya had been the most affected, but at least she had the assurance that her closest friend was at peace in heaven. Now, she knew that even that had been stolen away from the leader Kashya had always looked up to and loved.

Akara turned to Kirara. "I know how hard it is for you to go out there and battle the evil that has come to this land, but we need you."

"Please." Kashya said. "Give her rest."

Kirara nodded. It was hard for her to see another so filled with grief and she could see that that Akara was also saddened by the news, but as the rogues high preistess she had to be strong even in the face of these terrible times. The graveyard is where Blood Raven is rasing our dead and it is here." Akara said pointing to a location on one of the maps that lay across her table.

Kirara walked accross the wilderness careful of any demons she might face on her way to the graveyard, but she only saw a few roaming fallen and zombies, which she avoided easily. As she neared the cave she had cleared she noticed that it was much quieter here than it was before. Satisfied that she had really struck a blow against the demons in her last mission she continued on. It might just have been her imagination but she was sure that she heard footsteps behind her. This made her walk faster, but she didn't turn around afraid of what she might see. As she walked on towards her destination she saw a lone figure carrying a bow and facing away from her. 'A Rogue here?' Kirara thought. She decided to be cautious and prepared her magic for a fight. The warrior turned around as Kirara approached closer.

"Turn back. There is nothing but death that awaits you beyond here!" said the Rogue.

"I have been sent by Kashya to destroy Blood Raven." Kirara replied.

"Who are you?"

"I am Kirara of the Zann Esu."

"I am Flavie. I advise you to walk from here with your weapons unsheathed and your magic ready for your enemies will not hesitate to attack you. Your name is spoken with hatred by the demons for you slew Corpsefire, the leader of Blood Ravens undead army. Beyond here our fallen brethren have been raised to aid the demons. If you need to retreat seek the waypoint just East of here. It will take you back to the encampment by ancient magics. Good luck."

It wasn't long before Kirara faced new enemies. A group of four pale skinned women came charging at them from their left and Kirara's first instinct was to run from them, but she remembered what she was here to do. She steeled herself and faced the new enemies. The women had jet black hair and were nearly naked their breasts bouncing obscenely in what little clothing covered them. In their hands they carried hand axes or scimitars and small shields, not the bows the rogues were masters of. That at least gave Kirara some advantage as she cast icebolts which slowed the warriors movements. She cast a firebolt at the one closest to her to finish her and as the corrupt Rogue fell screaming to the ground Kirara thought she saw a mist rising from the body of the Rogue, but she couldn't be certain.

Kirara cast her magic firebolts and icebolts in quick succession until there was just one last warrior standing. She cast a firebolt to finish the corrupt Rogue off and watched closely to see the mist that she thought she had seen before. Kirara thought she could see a womans figure rising from the corpse its face etched with relief as it drifted upwards towards the heavens. This made Kirara smile as she knew that these Rogues at least would now be able to find true rest and reward in heaven.

As she moved onwards she heard the footsteps approaching from behind her again. "Kirara, please allow me to accompany you on your quest." Kirara turned and saw Liene walking towards her bow at the ready. "I want to help defeat the evil here."

"Do the others know you're here?"

No," Liene said looking down with a guilty look on her face. "I snuck out of the camp without telling anyone, because i knew they just wouldn't let me come with you."

"What did Flavie say?"

"I avoided her too."

Kirara smiled. "We'll be going up against Blood Ravem. Are you sure you want to fight with me?"

"Yes!" Liene said adamantly. "Anything is better than just staying at the camp walls and shooting the odd demon."

Kirara wondered if Liene would really want to do battle with Blood Raven if she knew how difficult real battles were. She herself had douibts about this task. She wasn't certain she could fight such a strong oppoonent, but she also knew she was the only one who the Rogues could ask for help, but Liene wasn't obligated to be involved in this battle at all. Looking into the young warriors eyes she saw the determination in her eyes. Liene wouldn't back down and would insist n being allowed to fight. 'Who knows' Kirara thought, 'I might need her in this coming battle.'

"Okay you can fight with me." Kirara said smiling.

"Yay!" Liene said her face breaking into a smile. "Maybe I'll even save your life?"

"Maybe."

Liene's prowess with the bow was quickly established as they ran into a group of red skinned demons. One shot, one kill as Liene targetted the critical areas of the demons anatomy ensuring a quick death for them. Kirara's magic worked wonders against them as well the icebolts sometimes freezing the little creatures and breaking them into shards of ice ensuring that any shamans nearby would not be able to raise them again. "Welcome warriors!" one of the shamans behind a wall of fallen said. "I am Bishibosh and I will ensure you die here!"

"Another of Blood Ravens minions?" Kirara said.

"Probably." Liene replied.

The shaman cast a fireball over the heads of his minions on a direct course for Kirara who dodged the attack.

More fireballs came towards the two women from different angles and they saw that Bishibosh was smiling.

"There's more shamans around us." Kirara said looking around.

"Correct." Bishibosh taunted. "You are surrounded. Surrender now and I may let you live."

"As if we can believe in you demons!" Liene said.

Quickly Kirara cast a number of firebolts at Bishibosh in an attempt to kill him. The shaman didn't even attempt to dodge the bolts of fire and let them all strike him. They seemed to have no effect on him at all. "I must have forgotten to tell you. Fire cannot hurt me for i am a master of it.!" he said before casting another fireball at Kirara. Simultationeously the other shamans cast there own fireballs at her.

"I guess we can't fight fire with fire." Kirara said.

"More importantly we can't allow those little demons to surround us. I dont know about you but Rogue's aren't usually the best melee fighters."

With a single wave of his hand Bishibosh ordered the fallen to advance towards the two heroes. "Too bad you won't live long enough to even see Blood Raven warriors. This will be where you are laid to rest!" As they advanced they quickly closed the gaps between them that there had been efectively surounding the heros.

"What should we do?" Liene asked.

"We need to create a hole in the fallens ranks which we can escape through." Kirara replied looking around. "There, the fallen are fewest in that area. Concentrate your fire there and be ready to run through when it's clear."

"Okay."

Another wave of fireballs were cast at them as they started firing everything they had at the fallen. One of the fireballs hit Liene who cried out in pain. Dodging several attacks at once while concentrating on attacking a certain area was a difficult challenge for Liene. It was an advanced skill in her training and one she hadn't completely mastered yet. Steeling herself she fired arrow after arrow as the fallen approached closer. Some of them were raised from the dead by the shamans, but most lay dead on the ground. The more the shamans used their magic to raise their fallen brethren the less they cast fireballs so the heros could effectively kill more.

"Are you alright?" Kirara asked.

"Yes." Liene said not wishing to talk too much in the heat of battle.

"Now!" Kirara shouted as she ran forward towards the hole in the fallen that they had created.

Liene ran towards the hole too and they barely were able to escape before the hole was closed again, but now at least they were outside of the circle of fallen.

"Clever." Bishibosh said. "I can see how you managed to defeat Corpsefire, but I'm not so easy." With another wave of his hand he ordered the fallen to attack once more and the other shamans to raise the fallen while he cast fireball after fireball.

"We need to kill the shamans!" Kirara said casting firebolts at one killing it with the third bolt.

"Okay." Liene said and targetted another shaman.

The shaman that Kirara had just killed picked itself up again and stood up.

"What?" Kirara said in disbelief.

"I am sorry for forgetting to tell you I can raise shamans as well as fallen." Bishibosh said sarcastically. "Are you ready to give up now?"

Kirara considered her options. Killing the fallen or shamans seemed to be futile, but her firebolts had no effect on Bishibosh himself. Icebolts might work but they were sloower moving than firebolts and were easier to dodge. That hadn't been a problem against Corpsefire since he had been so slow to begin with. Killing the shamans reduced the rate they could raise the fallen but only temporarily as Bishibosh would raise the shamans they had just slain. Kirara then rememebered the last quality of icebolts. They sometimes shattered their targets into shards of ice, which prevented ressurection. Killing the fallen in that way would be inefficient however as there was more of them than Kirara could effectively handle. The answer then was to use her icebolts to shatter the shamans so Bishibosh couldn't raise them and let Liene deal with the fallen.

"Liene, target the fallen and I'll target the shamans."

Liene nodded. "Sure."

"Haven't i already told you that you cannot win?" Bishibosh taunted casting another fireball at Kirara.

She cast a number of icebolts at the closest shaman making it shatter into shards of ice. "One down. Five to go." Kirara said.

This just infuriated Bishibosh who ordered all the shamans to target her with their fireballs instead of raising the fallen. As her icebolts hit the second one Kirara saw that the casting rate wasn't slowed by the bolts of ice but their physical movement was, which made it easier to hit with multiple icebolts after the first. Soon Bishibosh was standing alone against Liene and Kirara. "Blood Raven will destroy you both for this!"

As soon as the first icebolt hit Bishibosh's movements were slowed enough so that he couldn't dodge any more and he fell quickly to Liene and Kirara's attacks

"And so, another of Blood Ravens minions falls." Kirara said. "Are you still sure you want to fight Blood Raven?"

"Yes." Liene replied. "We'll have a better chance of defeating her if we fight together."

Kirara nodded. "Here. take this." she said as she handed a minor healing potion to Liene. "It will heal your wound."

"Thankyou." Liene said taking it and drinking the contents of the vial. Her wound was healed, but they were both tired after the battle so they sat down and rested for a few moments.

"The undead never sleep so we're unlikely to gain the element of surprise in the battle with Blood Raven." Liene said getting up. "And I don't need to tell you she is skilled with the bow so that is the weapon she will most likely use."

Kirara nodded. "I understand."

"We can use these to help us in the battle." Liene said prodcing some potions which had orange liquid inside them. "They are throwing potions which explode on impact. I also have a few poison throwing potions if the situation gets desperate, but poison will be largely ineffective against the undead."

"Okay, thanks."

"I'm a little afraid." Kirara said. "We've managed to survive so far, but our opponents haven't been too strong. Our next adversary is Blood Raven and she is sure to be skilled and strong."

"She was the strongest of us in life." Liene replied. "And i hate the thought of going up against one of my sisters, but this was Kashya's order and I know how much she loved Raven. She is our enemy now and we need to do what we can to lay her to rest so she can finally know peace in heaven."

The two walked slowly and carfully into the cemetary walking towards the gate of the central area. The wind blew towards them from the graveyard and it brought the aroma of death, old and new. The smell of fresh blood combined with the dank odor of gravedirt and the sick smell of rotting corpses all made Kiraras stomach turn. As they looked around they saw many upturned graves that had once housed the rogue's honoured dead, now they were forced to serve hells masters. Kirara was able to sense the torture of these souls feeling every inch of exposed nerves, every movement caused even greater pain than they had ever faced in life. Their rewards in heaven or hell stolen from them by demonic magics death would be their only solace.

The sight of the Zombies saddened Liene greatly as she knew these had also been her sister Rogues. "We need to kill these Zombies too."

Kirara nodded "I can't stand to see these tortured souls sudffering like this."

"Our best strategy is to work as a team keeping the Zombies away from us and fighting Blood Raven the best we can from afar."

"I agree."

Liene let loose an arrow at one of the Zombies hitting it square in the chest and killing the abomination. That got their attention and the Zombies started shuffling towards the two women who entered the graveyard through a gap in the iron bars keeping their distance from the approaching horde. Kirara chose firebolts to deal with these Zombies and briefly remembered the visage of Corpsefire. She didn't want to have to face such an opponent again. The slow footspeed of the Zombies was a big advantage as they fell one by one.

As the last Zombie fell there was still no sign of Blood Raven. "Could Kashya's scouts have been mistaken?" Liene asked herself looking around for her former leader.

"I don't know." Kirara replied. "It is strange that she hasn't appeared yet even though we've killed her army."

They approached a large tree in the centre of the graveyard where they saw a number of rogues hanging from the branches eyes bulging their necks hanging too far to one side obviously broken. Kirara stared at them for a moment eyes wide in horror.

At that moment she heard something coming towards her quickly and she dodged it as quickly as she could, but that wasn't enough to completely evade the missle. It tore a gash in her side leaving her bleeding a little. Fortunutly the wound wasn't too deep and she could still move quickly if she needed to. The missle had come from her right so she turned that way to see a pale figure in crimson red clothing that hardly covered her body at all in a mockery of the rogues uniform in it's scantiness.

"Welcome mortals, to my sanctuary. You shall not leave here alive." came Blood Ravens powerful demonic voice as she took another javelin sized arrow from her quiver and trained it once again at Kirara's breast. Trying to ignore the pain from her side Kirara started running to the side to avoid Blood Ravens next attack. Blood Raven trained her bow not directly at Kirara but at the area where she was running towards and fired. Kirara almost ran into the flying arrow as the former Rogue leader planned, but stopped herself just in time.

Liene was quick to react and started firing her own arrows at Blood Raven. The former Rogue leader quickly moved out of the way of the incoming bolts and trained her bow on Liene notching another arrow and releasing it in the blink of an eye. The arrow was blazing with magical fire as it came towards Liene who dodged it and heard the arrow explode behind her in a brilliant flash of light. It didn't take much imagination to understand what would have happened had the arrow hit it's target and Liene trembled in fear.

While Blood Ravens attention was on Liene Kirara approached and invoked her cold magics to release a ring of frost all around her. Being hit by the frost nova Ravens movements were slowed. Without any hesitation Kirara invoked her powers to launch a powerful blast of ice at her opponents right arm causing a wound that would make it very difficult for Blood Raven to use her bow had she been alive. However, being dead had its advantages and Blood Raven notched an arrow enchanted with fire and loosed it at Kirara who dodged just in time to dsave her life, but the arrow burned a line in her leg making it difficult for her to move.

"It's been fun." Blood Raven said mockingly as she aimed another arrow at Kirara's heart, "but now you have the honour of joining my army. Your friend will be next and I'm sure Akara will be pleased to see you using your magic to freeze her to death." As she said this Liene fired arrows at her, but she ignored them seeking to finish off one opponent at a time. She drew back the bowstring ready to fire the arrow which would end Kirara's young life.

Liene quickly changed her tactics grasping the exploding potions she had prepared and threw them at the undead Rogue. The potions exploded into fireballs on impact causing major damage even against the undead body of their enemy. Blood Raven yelled out in pain and anger and turned to Liene. "So you want to be first?" she said menacingly. "I will grant you your wish fellow sister." Liene dodged the bolt as it flew towards her.

"You should know us Rogues have mastered the art of dodging ranged fire. Liene taunted.

"Let's see how well you fare in melee combat then." Blood Raven said and with a wave of her hand raised a large number of Zombies from the surrounding graves. "You didn't think the Zombies you killed before were the extent of my army did you? Now you're surrounded and your life will end soon."

Kirara picked herself up and drank one of her healing potions to heal the wounds she had suffered already in this battle. The scene was not looking good for the two heroes. Their enemy stood as if she hadn't been wounded at all with an army of Zombies slowly approaching from all sides.

"We need to work together to defeat her." Kirara said. "I'll slow her with my cold magic and you let loose all your power in your arrows."

"Okay." Liene said notching another arrow in her bow and enchanting it with fire in preparation wondering whether she should really do this. Blood Raven had once been a great leader to the Rogues, the greatest leader and she would be one of her killers, but then she reminded herself that Blood Raven was now their enemy, perhaps their greatest one and that the survival of the Rogues depended on Blood Ravens death.

Kirara launched another frost nova which hit Blood Raven doing minor damage, but slowing her down and dodged the retalitory arrow which soon flew towards her. Liene immediately started firing several bolts at the undead Rogue aiming at her heart. The arrows made a small edplosion on impact, certainly nothing like Blood Ravens attacks, but they did their job. Kirara lended her aid as she launched blasts of ice at the Rogue leader

As the last blast of ice impacted Blood Ravens corpulent bosom she fell back onto the ground, a loud moan escaping her lips. Streaks of lighting were released from her dying body to strike the many zombies in the cemetary one by one turning them to dust.. Kirara looked at Blood Ravens body and thought she could see a writhing female spirit struggling against unseen bonds. When the last of the bolts of lightning snaked out from the body the naked spirit was free at last and smiled gratefully at her saviors.as she drifted upwards towards heaven.

Liene saw the spirit of Raven too and smiled glad that she could finally find rest.

"We should head back to the encampment." Liene said. "Our work here is done."

"I agree." Kirara said. "We need to report our success to Kashya so she can finally know that Raven has found her rewards in heaven."

Liene nodded smiling. Their journey back to the Rogue encampment was uneventful since with the death of Blood Raven the demons had fled to darker places like caves where the darkness gave them strength. By the time the two heroes reached the camp it was almost night time.

"Let's go to Kashya's tent now. I'm sure she won't mind us disturbing her to give her the good news." Liene said. "Otherwise she might worry that Raven is still suffering."

"Good idea."

"Raven has finally found peace." Kirara said explaining what she had witnessed at the graveyard when Blood Raven had fallen into death.

"Thankyou." Kashya said relief flooding her face. "You cannot know what this means to me. You have earned my trust and the alliegance of the Rogues. Should you ever need help you can always take some of my warriors with you."

"Liene alone is enough and besides, knowing that so many Rogues have now found peace is already reward enough."

"I understand." Kashya said. "Liene is a fine warrior and she will serve you well."

"Wow, very few people can gain Kashya's respect like that." Liene said as they were leaving the tent.

"Are you okay with coming with me on my quests?" Kirara said.

"Yes, I've always wanted to get out of this camp and do something for my sisters." Liene replied.

"We should get some sleep tonight and see what more we can do tommorow morning."

"Okay, goodnight."

"Goodnight."

As Kirara lay in bed she thought of all she had done. She had done far more than she ever thought she would for these Rogues. When she first entered the camp her only thought was to search for her father and find him. She hadn't really expected to fight any demons or undead here, but she had already fought some tough battles with strong adversaries. First Corpsefire had given her taste of what real battle was. She remembered how scared she had been when she faced him. How much she had just wanted to run away. Maybe return home and forget about finding Kirandor. She considered that option for a few moments.

Had she been alone in the battle against Blood Raven she was certain she wouldn't have survived. She owed Liene her life and felt sure that the young Rogue must have been just as scared as she had been. She wouldn't soon forget the visage of Blood Raven standing above her aiming the arrow which would end her life. She wouldn't forget how much she had feared for her life during those moments and how grateful she had felt towards Liene when she saved her. Returning home wasn't really an option. Kirara wanted to find her father and now since Liene had saved her she owed her. She decided to continue helping the Rogues until she could leave for the East to continue her search. As she closed her eyes she imagined that her father was watching over her keeping her safe as he had done so many times during her childhood.

As she drifted off to sleep she began to wonder what kind of town Tristram had been since that was where Kirandor had left to go to. What were it's inhabitants like and what was life like in such a small village. As she thought about it she realised that it would be much like the encampment. Quiet most of the time with little really going on, but the townspeople would have known each other well since the community would be so small. 'I want to visit Tristram and see what it's like.' she thought to herself and decided to do just that tommorow hoping that she would get the chance to actually do it.