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<blockquote data-quote="Trouvere" data-source="post: 5898282" data-attributes="member: 37250"><p>Rollfar comes to a decision. "<span style="color: Red">Anyway, and you don't deserve this, and I don't know why I bothered, but this is yours. Well, most of it.</span>" She rummages in her backpack and produces a bulging coin purse. "<span style="color: Red">Thirty dozen dragons. No small amount.</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">What's this?</span>" asks Keldar. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">I can't take your Spelding Row money.</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: Red">No, it's not that,</span>" Rollfar tells him. "<span style="color: Red">I took along all the manuscripts and managed to sell the publishing rights for the complete works of, ahem, Barry Lakeward.</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">Who is very reclusive now that his days of derring-do are done, and allows only me to act as his literary agent,</span>" says Keldar.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: Red">I shall continue to believe that,</span>" says Rollfar with a small smile. "<span style="color: Red">There are very impressive gnomish printing facilities in Fallon, and a weekly booksellers' market. The Lakewards proved more popular than stepladders in a halfling cherry orchard. It seems Fallon delights in at least as many misguided fluff-brained young girls as Orussus.</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">That's not who reads Barry Lakeward!</span>" Keldar splutters. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">Young men stifled in their everyday lives who yearn for tales of swashbuckling adventure, that's who reads them, that's who they're aimed at!</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: Red">Mmm... Not quite in the bullseye, then, dear,</span>" says Rollfar.</p><p></p><p>Keldar sits and fumes. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">There is another Lakeward I can let you have,</span>" he says at length. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">Ink hardly dry. It's called 'A Bleak Reward – Barry Lakeward and the Paladins' Betrayal.'</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: Red">Keldar?</span>" Rollfar asks softly.</p><p></p><p>Keldar's eyes turn empty and grey. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">They've... they've left me, Rolli,</span>" he says.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: Red">Oh, Keldar,</span>" Rollfar sighs. She leans in and rests her head against his arm.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">All of them. Galwynn and Rapture took my ship on the say-so of some priest of Halina. They didn't even leave a note. Fimble stayed with his parents. I've not seen Tommy in weeks. Maybe he's decided to go learn from Thyrin, but that's not a trip I'll make again soon. And Tarag ran out on us in Fallon, and now he's skipped town! His shop is boarded up. Can't say I'm surprised – there was always something not quite right about him. But I thought... I thought we were a family.</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: Red">Oh, no. I'm sorry, Keldar,</span>" Rollfar says.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">Tarag was like one of those uncles you have to keep a close eye on, of course. But now there's just me.</span>"</p><p></p><p>Rollfar says, with hurt in her voice, "<span style="color: Red">And me. <em>I've</em> never left <em>you</em>.</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">I always come back,</span>" Keldar says. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">But you're helping out the smallfolk, and busy with Spelding Row and Drunken Halfling, while I want to be out doing good deeds. I mean, not that what you do isn't - </span>" he stammers into silence.</p><p></p><p>Surprisingly, Rollfar lets that pass. "<span style="color: Red">I've handed off most of that,</span>" she says. "<span style="color: Red">I told you, I bought a crossbow.</span>"</p><p></p><p>Keldar laughs. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">That certainly makes you an adventurer. You get free board and lodging here, you know.</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: Red">Everybody knows that,</span>" Rollfar says.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">You'll need armour,</span>" Keldar says. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">We can't all be as nimble as Keldar Light on his Feet Warbray. <em>That's</em> my middle name.</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: Red">Of course it is.</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">One of them. It's a Warbrayvian tradition,</span>" Keldar says. He puts his arm around Rollfar's shoulder, leans back to look at the ceiling and sighs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trouvere, post: 5898282, member: 37250"] Rollfar comes to a decision. "[COLOR="Red"]Anyway, and you don't deserve this, and I don't know why I bothered, but this is yours. Well, most of it.[/COLOR]" She rummages in her backpack and produces a bulging coin purse. "[COLOR="Red"]Thirty dozen dragons. No small amount.[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]What's this?[/COLOR]" asks Keldar. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]I can't take your Spelding Row money.[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="Red"]No, it's not that,[/COLOR]" Rollfar tells him. "[COLOR="Red"]I took along all the manuscripts and managed to sell the publishing rights for the complete works of, ahem, Barry Lakeward.[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]Who is very reclusive now that his days of derring-do are done, and allows only me to act as his literary agent,[/COLOR]" says Keldar. "[COLOR="Red"]I shall continue to believe that,[/COLOR]" says Rollfar with a small smile. "[COLOR="Red"]There are very impressive gnomish printing facilities in Fallon, and a weekly booksellers' market. The Lakewards proved more popular than stepladders in a halfling cherry orchard. It seems Fallon delights in at least as many misguided fluff-brained young girls as Orussus.[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]That's not who reads Barry Lakeward![/COLOR]" Keldar splutters. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]Young men stifled in their everyday lives who yearn for tales of swashbuckling adventure, that's who reads them, that's who they're aimed at![/COLOR]" "[COLOR="Red"]Mmm... Not quite in the bullseye, then, dear,[/COLOR]" says Rollfar. Keldar sits and fumes. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]There is another Lakeward I can let you have,[/COLOR]" he says at length. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]Ink hardly dry. It's called 'A Bleak Reward – Barry Lakeward and the Paladins' Betrayal.'[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="Red"]Keldar?[/COLOR]" Rollfar asks softly. Keldar's eyes turn empty and grey. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]They've... they've left me, Rolli,[/COLOR]" he says. "[COLOR="Red"]Oh, Keldar,[/COLOR]" Rollfar sighs. She leans in and rests her head against his arm. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]All of them. Galwynn and Rapture took my ship on the say-so of some priest of Halina. They didn't even leave a note. Fimble stayed with his parents. I've not seen Tommy in weeks. Maybe he's decided to go learn from Thyrin, but that's not a trip I'll make again soon. And Tarag ran out on us in Fallon, and now he's skipped town! His shop is boarded up. Can't say I'm surprised – there was always something not quite right about him. But I thought... I thought we were a family.[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="Red"]Oh, no. I'm sorry, Keldar,[/COLOR]" Rollfar says. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]Tarag was like one of those uncles you have to keep a close eye on, of course. But now there's just me.[/COLOR]" Rollfar says, with hurt in her voice, "[COLOR="Red"]And me. [I]I've[/I] never left [I]you[/I].[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]I always come back,[/COLOR]" Keldar says. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]But you're helping out the smallfolk, and busy with Spelding Row and Drunken Halfling, while I want to be out doing good deeds. I mean, not that what you do isn't - [/COLOR]" he stammers into silence. Surprisingly, Rollfar lets that pass. "[COLOR="Red"]I've handed off most of that,[/COLOR]" she says. "[COLOR="Red"]I told you, I bought a crossbow.[/COLOR]" Keldar laughs. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]That certainly makes you an adventurer. You get free board and lodging here, you know.[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="Red"]Everybody knows that,[/COLOR]" Rollfar says. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]You'll need armour,[/COLOR]" Keldar says. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]We can't all be as nimble as Keldar Light on his Feet Warbray. [I]That's[/I] my middle name.[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="Red"]Of course it is.[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]One of them. It's a Warbrayvian tradition,[/COLOR]" Keldar says. He puts his arm around Rollfar's shoulder, leans back to look at the ceiling and sighs. [/QUOTE]
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