Aurum to Arora:
"Arora. I have been meaning to ask you about your time in the military. What sort of organization did you pertain to? What was its purpose? I find myself sometimes thinking about the important balance between experience and education. My time spent at the academy was crucial for developing some of my talents and giving direction to my energies. I find the longer I spend away from it I feel a growing sense of loss at the instruction I am missing...perhaps the reason I am here on this journey is an example of my lack of instruction...But for yourself, often people of divine faith spend time cultivating it in an institutional setting. Between military and religion you can find yourself spending alot of time taking orders. How was that for you?"
Deomin to Melec:
"Every time we get into a scuffle I feel the heat of your fires burning. Naturally fire itself has a passion and wildness in it, but i cant help but get the impression that there is a little of yourself in the inferno. Without exception when I swing a blade or let loose an arrow there is purpose behind it. More often than not the meaning escapes me, but the agression is driven by a part of me that I am aware of. I connect with you easily Melec. Ive noticed that we both strike out in the name of completing a goal but whereas before I used to feel that the ends justified the means I sense lately that the means are the ends. That the way I go is something preconcieved...something natural. Feelings like these make the ethical debates of scholars like Aurum or zealots like Aurora seem silly and unnecessary. How do they not feel the direction of their lives and actions without all the preaching and rhetoric? So tell me Melec...where does the fuel for your fires come from?
Aurum to Arath:
"...The level of intricacy and precision required is maddening! Im not one to shirk studying Arath but seeing you sit here hour after hour in this cart makes me thing you are more machine than eladrin. With all the calculation required to master a spell where do you find outlets for other sides of life? Tests of phisical stregnth? The passion for battle!...or(slyly) other, less hostile activities. Ive been practicing some of the shielding incantations and my articulation of the commands seem decent, but my gestures are clumsy and uncoordinated. Even so I sense some useen source of power being pursueded to move for me."