"No, I'm just coming to visit you." she said.

"No one visits me anymore.My dear mate doesn't even come home as often anymore," she said laying her head down, "What reason do you have to visit me? I don't even know you."

"I'm in the process of changing that so that he can come home more often.  And your children know me." she said.  "My name's Goldenscale."

"Dains has told me about you. He speaks fondly of you," she said weakly, "I might as well give up. I'm only a durden for my children and the people I know. I should just let the illness get me. At least then I wouldn't be a problem for anyone."

"Never give up hope.  Keep believing you will get better and you will." she said as she kneeled beside her.

"I lost hope years ago when everyone left me. I wouldn't be surprised is they all forgot about me," she said, "I've been in this condition for longer than my little one have been around. I can hardly take care of myself, let alone take care of my children. I feel they would be better off without me weighing them down."

"Hope isn't lost, it is merely just forgotten for a time.  It just need to be rekindled." she said.

"What hope do I have? Mayumi has given me her best just to keep this illness from killing me. She doesn't know of a cure, and she's the only one I know of around here that has a chance at curing me," she said looking up, pain in her eys, "Every day I suffer in silence. I used to hope for a cure, but not even the strongest magic the council has could cure me. If there is a cure, I wont live long enough for it to be found at this rate."

"Well, you haven't met me. I know of healing techniques no one would know about.  I bet you there is a cure being made at this moment." she said.  She had told the moon about the children's ailing mother and the she had been working on her sacred healing remedy at that very moment.

"How many times have I heard that before from visitors when they still stopped by. They all came said the same thing,  left, then never returned. Not even to give me an update on their progress," she said looking over Goldenscale,"Please don't taunt me any more than you have. I already know I'm a lost cause without being let down again."

(Got to go to bed.)

"But I don't let others down.  I keep my promises." she said.

"I'll give you one chance, but promise me one thing. If your cure fails, putme out of this never ending pain, and take in Dains and Tinna," she said, "I've outlived my stay in this world, and if your cure fails, that will only prove that."

"I...I wouldn't be able to do that.  I've seen death, and I can't kill  on a normal basis.  It's only when I'm extremely mad that I kill...  Please don't make a request like that..." she said as she put her head down.

"Then have an enforcer do it. I wouldn't care how it's done," she said, "Look at as a way to encourage you to not fail. I'm not unreasonable, I don't expect the cure to work instantly. I'll give it a month to present a change before I ask you told keep the promise."

"I'll try my best not to fail.  In all my years of healing, I've only failed once." she said.