[quote=@Hank] Madura can be the one to speak up about Do'Karth's current status and whereabouts before he sets off for the ruins. He interviewed the pair together and knows they fought side-by-side in Windhelm. It might occur to him that Niernen would like to know Do'Karth still exists. That brings me to Niernen's personality. She is consistently stubborn and somewhat reckless in her history and it would not be out-of-character for her to, despite her current shape, want to reconnect with Do'Karth as soon as possible. It wouldn't be a stretch for Madura to have a flask of water (or something or other) and something to eat for Niernen to perk her up a bit, which he offers to her out of sympathy as he sees the almost insane desperate desire in Niernen's eyes to go to Do'Karth, the only person who ever showed any understanding for her trauma and internal struggles about her actions in Blackmarsh. Niernen may have built Do'Karth up in her head to be some kind of perfect, furry angel, a beacon of hope during the traumatic enslavement by the Kamal, and to have developed the idea that "If I can get back to him, everything will be alright". [/quote] I think that's a pretty logical train of thought. Also, Furry Angel is now DK's porn name.