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Message: <blockquote data-quote="alsih2o" data-source="post: 808417" data-attributes="member: 4790">Sweat built up quickly on her hairy upper lip as soon as she saw the glowing brand. Her pudgy, unattractive face was helpless to hide her excitement as the brand hissed and bubbled into the shoulder of the feral boy kneeling before her outstretched hands. “In the name of Balcla, the sun, the runner, the bringer I bless you and name you freed”  Thabyra had seen quite a few men branded, but this was the first time she had been in charge, and she liked it. The respite form the daily duties as a scribe felt good, but the burning…that sweet smell, and the light….. Rinney watched the brand bite into the shoulder of Ry and tried to feel he was doing the right thing. 15 days on the road and none of his companions had outed him as a wizard; none had even indicated that they might know his secret. Now he found himself in the hall of The Shield itself, buying this slaves freedom and representing Papa Mac, an outlaw leading a band of misfits in honor of the state. This had to be some special kind of suicide.  Ry tried to put on a brave face as he felt the heat of the brand approach his shoulder, but when the cool damp flesh sated the heat he cried out in a way that betrayed his nature. The cry went deep into the fresh stone walls of the keep. The small man holding the brand had been through this routine at least one thousand times, but this was the first time his flesh had crawled…and he wondered if he could go so casually to mark any animal again, now that he had heard a man make these sounds, sounds unlike any he had heard from a beast.  Fin winced as the barbarian on the ground growled out a scream, but it was a short pause in his scan of the room. How could the sufferings a man becoming free draw his attention from the finery and baubles of this palace? And how would he walk out of here without taking just a few along?  As each of them watched the ritual Kolindra stared towards the man without seeing him, her mind full of vision of the scythe, and her return to the grove.</blockquote>

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