With the Taomon Alt hounding the party for several days, tensions were riding high, especially for Ashes… So when Shadow, a trained former assassin, accidentally sneaks up on her in his efforts to track her down and reassure her, the fox-yellow in her peripheral startles her and she clocks Shadow straight to hell and back. (Nat 20) Ashes panicked. The local peacekeepers were involved. Shadow ended up in the hospital and his bodyguard took it out on her boyfriend while she was in jail. It was a huge, awful mess.

But Shadow understood. He, too, had been there once, and the normally aloof rockstar groupie made a point of tracking her down to talk things out and show her there were no hard feelings.