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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 3038943" data-attributes="member: 4441">Drota slowly uncurls from her ball, the words of the others stiffening her spine and warming her heart.  Of course, they must be as frightened as she, but they said they had traveled farther.  The lived wider lives and had wider experiences.  Drota, for all her own life experience, had a very narrow life.  But they... believed in her.  And that helped more than anything in the world.She stands up slowly, taller than anyone else in the room, her spine straightening and somehow becoming more relaxed as well.  She reaches out her hands to the others and pulls the whole lot into a bone-crushing hug.  "You will be my family while I am here, and I will protect you," she says softly, her voice having more conviction and strength than it's had in days.</blockquote>