Kahuna Burger
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Sparky said:
Redarn looks far more comfortable with this turn of conversation, and settles back with his cup of wine. "Well what can I tell you... They call themselves Whore Sons," he speaks the two words distinctly. "Up this way, thats a slang of sorts for a bastard... one whose parents were unmarried, and usually doesn't know who his father is. Thats very important arround here - Therick calls me his truebrother to indicate that even though I don't do much more than drive a wagon, I have more value than those attacking us because I have... a pedigree for want of a better phrase. If you don't have your mother and your father together to place you in society, you aren't worth much. In the big city, a bastard is lucky to be scrubbing dishes or mucking the stable, and in a small town like ours, they're like to just be shunned until they leave."
He sighs. "Its the way our society is, but I won't defend it. If I'm stopping through the capital on one of my trips, I try to hire one of the poor kids to load the wagon and come along to unload it... give him a couple of coppers and a free ride somewhere where he has at least a chance of making something of himself." He drink some more wine, cocks his head as if listening for any sound of trouble from the inn then continues. "These fellows though, I guess they decided that if they couldn't find a place in society they'd take one outside it... bastards as petty theives is nothing new, but this group has somehow been pulled together into a force to be reconned with. They have decent weapons, and a couple even ride good horses - not the kind you'd steal from a wagon like mine, but a real set of matched beauties..."
"I'm not sure what else to tell you... they raid in groups of a half dozen or so, but its not always the same men. When some of the town gaurd put up a fight and wounded one of them pretty bad, another six charged in to help. And I'll tell you one other thing, I swear I saw the wounded one on the next raid looking fit as a fiddle..."
