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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1152698" data-attributes="member: 11574">Tharhack labors furiously over Bimbar, but alas it is all for naught. Soon Bimbar stops fighting, and the gnome's heart stops beating. A long moment of silence blankets the passageway. Alriand gets up and goes back to pushing away the rocks at the exit. Tharhack slumps against the dead gnome, thoughts like: why he wasn't a better healer, why he didn't save just one more healing spell, why a tribe of weak kobolds and their pet bats could even take one of them down. Tharhack becomes despondent and calls out to Kord asking why he wasn't strong enough to save Bimbar. Rebrey puts a hand on Tharhack's shoulder and walks down to help Alriand clear away the exit. The sun has begun to set and has settled below the tree line in the West, the reddish glow casts the exit to the passage in a ruddy light. Tharhack hoists Bimbar's body over his shoulder and with the kobold in tow, makes his way to the exit. Adrian and Rebrey finish clearing out the exit as Tharhack arrives. The trio stare at each other as the last remaining light from the sun vanishes."we need to camp." Rebrey finally speaks up. "and we can't do it here, I don't want to be hassled all night by short order chefs."Alriand nods in agreement. "I'll go look for a good spot." Alriand then silently slinks out the exit and into the crisp fall air. Rebrey and Tharhack stand there staring out into the night. Both searching for solace, but neither asking the right question. They knew that Bimbar was the ringleader who kept the circus running. Tharhack wondered who was going to be the one to encourage him to follow his calling, and to live like Kord is always watching. Rebrey wondered who was going to keep the elf in line, and who was going to be his sparing partner. Alriand saw them standing there as she was walking back to the cave. She thought they almost looked like she did, the day she was forced to leave her home in the Forest of Startrees. She too had looked back at her place of birth, trying to find the words to say goodbye, but finding only hollow words. As she watched them she wondered if they knew what true loss was, and if she had just found it. Shaking off those thoughts as human, Alriand makes her way to Rebrey and Tharhack. "There's a small overhang in the side of a cliff, about 250 yards west of here. It's the best place I could find, and it didn't show any signs of recent large animal activity, you know bears, tigers, dragons." Alriand tells the men. A couple of moments go by and Rebrey steps out into the air, and heads off to the West. Tharhack waits for minuets before finally heading out following Rebrey's tracks, spurred on Alriand incessant whines to hurry up, that she doesn't want to be out in the middle of nowhere at night. They both reach the overhang and Rebrey has already started to collect firewood, holding the infant in one arm and a bundle of twigs in the other. Rebrey asks Alriand to start the fire up for them, which she does, then she proceeds to scout out the surrounding area. Tharhack lays Bimbar's body out on the ground, then starts to collect big rocks, and small boulders for Bimbar's funeral. Rebrey watches Tharhack's scripted show, as he gives the infant some water. Tharhack finishes burying Bimbar, sprinkles holy water over the grave, and says the last rites for Bimbar.</blockquote>

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