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[b]"You seem to think myself aggrandizing my achievements."[/b] replied Ernst to Solana. [b]"That wasn't the point of my tale, but that what is [i]spoken of[/i] and what [i]is[/i] could well not be the same. In my village, there was much talk about the tree spirits living in the forests, of how powerful they are and how they could tempt a man into abandoning his family to join the wood with the same ease as killing him outright. Well, I saw one as a child, and I saw its throat get slashed by my sister. The stories also tell of their immortality, but I saw no such thing as it doubled over and died, blood gushing out of its neck and gurgling weakly."[/b]

He was also fighting temptation and valiantly trying not to stare at Elora for too-long periods of time.