Aredis remained silent, being still much more concerned with trying to keep his cool. The man had taken the recent events rather hard. Nearly twenty years of his life had been dedicated to serving a being that, under normal circumstance, was no want to die. Who ever worried about their God no longer being around to be praised anymore? Certainly he did not. Especially due to his patron's domain being life, nature, and most things that had any really thought. Aredis had learned a great deal about the animals of the forest you wouldn't normally discover unless you lived among them. Bears, deer and elk were near human levels of intelligence. Through his worship of the Earthmother, he was granted the ability to communicate with the particular group of animals in the Grove that was his home. They had regarded him as an odd addition initially, yet over the years had grown to see him as a member of their own family. It was also odd to be exclusively in the company of animals. However he lived a life where he never wanted for sustenance and was tutored in the arts of healing and manipulating the natural world. 


"None of that matters anymore..."He muttered to himself. A bit somber, yet entirely true fact. His hold. Over his ability to manipulate the essence of the world itself had all but vanished after the Fall. Nothing bloomed to his touch any longer. At a point he could've healed almost any non lethal injury he placed his fingers on. Now it took days worth of praying to leave him with barely repaired limbs and still significant damage to them. Even attempting to shift his form only seemed to result in him feeling brief pain as his body tried to contort into an entirely different shape before he groaned in pain and completely returned to normal. What was a man without his faith? There were so few things in this life worth devoting yourself to and living for. Yet now, all he had was worthless hunk of metal and stone hanging around his throat that froze the empty space now resting in his chest.


Just then the door opened, closed, and an odd looking figure entered the inn. Aredis had never seen a man that resembled a lizard. It was strange and brought him out of his pity a small bit. The gravelly voice also confused him. He had not thought the being capable of intelligent speech. It had not looked that smart. With an awkward gait, Aredis approached the being with intrigue. Upon reaching it he would speak.

"What are you? You cannot be something natural. You do not smell of it."