[color=0054a6]"Not that close... I'd just met him."[/color]  Kip shrugged and took a larger sip of the ale that she had been given.  [color=0054a6]"It's just, no one I've known has ever died.  And I was too busy looking after myself to help him."[/color]  Her words ended with a bitter tone; it was fairly evident she blamed herself.