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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eluvan" data-source="post: 1862225" data-attributes="member: 24812">Lin looks quietly on to the scene and accepts the coins wordlessly but with a grateful incline of her head. She stares at them of a few seconds before pocketing them. The sudden realisation that her attempts at deceit and manipulation were not needed have struck home rather hard and left her feeling marginalised and bewildered, and she reacts at first by distancing herself. This, however, gives her the time to take in the simple fact that Palol really is dead. Altogether she doesn't really know what it is she should be feeling, for in the space of a few minutes she has been presented by both death and genuine compassion, neither of which get much consideration in her every day world view. The juxtaposition of the two confuses her utterly. The one thing she does know is that she feels guilty that while, had she been paying more attention, she could have been doing something to help Palol, she was instead engaging in petty larceny. Without a word or a gesture to anybody else she slips two gold coins from the pouch she had stolen and goes forward to reverently place them over the dead warrior's eyes. Her peace made, she then turns and waits a little apart from the group, feeling it is not her place to suggest burial arrangements.</blockquote>