For a moment it seemed as though Liu was beginning to make sense to Xiomara. It was a conversation well-rehearsed and destined to repeat itself until that day when the Pandaren’s wise words finally failed to soothe the savage Malsange.

“Your wisdom knows no end, Liu.” Xio rumbled after some time. In the interceding time the newest of Liu’s waitresses had made her presence known, dressed like someone’s fetish and doing a poor job at disguising her disdain, or her skill.  A gaze like smoldering embers pinned her in place just long enough to become awkward and then Jen spoke, “And if we were anywhere else I might agree with you. But when I stare up at the night sky I cannot spot Malsange no matter how hard I try, nor can I make out the familiar constellations of my home, and it is not because these stars are foreign so much as it is because they do not exist.”

“Not as we know them.”

“Do you intend to carve life from a lie?” with that Xio’s gaze trailed over to Jen. Though the little woman was trying to speak to his soul the harsh edge in her words were exactly the spark needed to set the emotional firecracker that the hermit was, “You overstep your bounds woman…” the thread was pretty clear and for a moment it seemed he might act on it, mug set to the counter as the first hint of crimson began to appear at his cheeks and his feral eyes narrowed. Well that was what was going to happen until a walking electronic nightmare strode into the Tavern, outlandish from the very get go there was no way that Resolution couldn’t capture his and everyone else’s attention, but there was something distressingly familiar about that well of power once one looked past the surface.

But Xiomara and Resolution were going to get along just fine it seems. The beast snatched Jen’s Shindroid away and devoured it in a flash of power, eliciting wicked laughter from the hermit and a high pitched whine from Jen. With all the electricity crackling over Resolution’s body the little lady was as liable to hurt herself as the man but she swung, maybe there was something to her spirit yet. Inspired into action, at least for the moment, Xio rose from his seat and proceeded top thump Jen over the head with the butt of his mug, “If my rampage is to begin tonight then it will start with you.”