[Diamond18]

Diamond broke out into a fit of giggles. "In case I'm innocent, eh?" she said to Lommy. "Well, I'll drink to that."

She helped herself to a draught of ale and slugged it down. "Well, I was hoping to have more time to play with my character, you know," she continued, slurring her speech a bit. "Going from tight laced ascetic to raving drunk... you're all going to miss out on me standing on the table with my hair down singing 'In Gadda Da Vida' but perhaps that is for the best."

"Uh, right. Let's see if I can make something of all this before I go. I still have a rather bad feeling about Naria. The slew of voters against me are going to look suspicious no matter what I say, of course, but since I haven't had time to study what they've said, I can't lend much help in that regard. Volo please explain yourself tomorrow, if only to satisfy my post-humous curiosity, what's all this about me agreeing with Kath? I recall commenting that I appreciated the effort of putting together a summary, but... I'm not sure how that turned into an alliance of some sort. We both found Naria suspicious but you'll note that I never said my suspicions were based on Kath's summary. I said I was going to think back on what Menel said, and I did, which lead to my suspicion of Naria."

"As my time is running short, I can only add that Valier worries me, too. Make her explain her vague bad feelings about me, that's my advice. Nogrod and Boro seem to be rather in control of the village, and I find Nogrod's insistence that people who talk sense should be trusted and let live to be foolhardy and suspicious. He assures you the werewolves will be caught if they are vocal, and so they should be let live until they make some big mistake... don't trust that, even if he is an innocent. It ain't true, I've seen vocal wolves conquer before."

Diamond downed another mug of ale and said, "What the Udun...." She shook her hair out and jumped up on the table, launching into the aforementioned anakronistic song, which probably more than anything sealed her death.

edited for gross typos due to haste....