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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4598823" data-attributes="member: 3285">I Know Thee Brother: Part 4a – I Smell a RatAnother day passed and Sebastian’s illness worsened. As the day advanced, more victims of the plague were brought into the courtyard from the city.  They were some of the worst cases, born in on stretches covered with blood-soaked sheets.“At the rate these bodies come in, he’ll never heal Sebastian!” Ilmarė said, exasperated.  “Psst!” a squeaky voice whispered to Kham. Kham looked around.  “Down here!”Kham looked down. A large brown rat, sitting on its hind legs, was tugging on his boot.“Great,” said the val. “Now I can hear what animals are thinking.”  He rubbed his temples.  “I love being a val!”“No boss, I’m actually speaking Low Coryan,” said the rat. “Learned it from Gakyi.  But that’s not important now.  What’s important is that you’re about to be ambushed.”“An ambush?” Kham looked down at the rat in disbelief.  “You expect me to believe a talking rodent?”As Petru began to minister to the sick, a half-dozen sheets were tossed aside to reveal feral ratmen, armed with wicked swords.  “Told you,” said the rat.The half-human, half-rat men lunged at the nuns and Petru.  This time, the Nerothian was prepared.  He whispered a prayer and the rats struggled to focus on him, finally ignoring him completely in favor of the nuns.The largest of them screeched in frustration.  Then it turned to face Vlad.The rat-man had one blue eye and one brown eye.There was a humming sound as the ratman’s sword began to bubble and hiss.  Something foul dripped from the blade.“Vlad, look out!” shouted Kham.The Milandisian dance backwards as the sizzling blade slashed his studded leather armor.  “Kham!” shouted Vlad.  “I think this is Hayden!”“Great,” Kham snapped back.  “I’ll try not to shoot him.”One of Ilmarė’s arrows shivered from the ratman’s shoulder.  Hayden hissed in rage.  “Fortunately,” said the elorii, “I have no such compunctions.”The arrow popped out and the wound healed over before Vlad’s very eyes.“Oh, crap.”</blockquote>

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