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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sparky" data-source="post: 1365290" data-attributes="member: 13681">There seems to be no strength left in the man's bird-like frame. He clutches the basket and staff by will alone it seems. No color to him either. His eyes as he brings his head painfully up are pale gray and fever bright. His skin, milky pale, papery, wrinkled. A week's growth of beard skims his jaw and chin with white.He approaches warily, signing himself with the Mark of the Road as he passes over the threshold onto temple grounds, but gratefully accepts the offer of help handing the basket carefully over and rubbing his left hand  where the cord ground it raw. "Thank you. I..." He bends double with a fresh spasm of coughing, groping for support. His now free left hand latches onto the larger man's forearm. You both get a glimpse of a very old tattoo - a salamander biting its tail - incised on the back of the gnarled fist. When the coughs subside he resumes, voice brittle and quiet, "I bring news from Hedrogura." He gives the two strangers a steady glance from his red-rimmed eyes... No mantles, no road symbols... Eyes watering as a sneeze threatens, "Where is ...the master of this ...Station?" The old man sneezes and wobbles on his feet, growing ashen. He looks to the halfbreed, his tone laced with concern, "Please, see to Bastrop." The man weakly indicates the donkey standing patiently in the soft rain, leisurely cropping any grass within reach of where he drew to a halt. The donkey's ears swivel at its name and the grazing head raises. It looks on impassively at the people before it, low munching sounds issuing from its working jaws.Renewing his clutching grasp he looks up, hood sliding back to reveal straggling tufts of thinning white hair. He clears his throat, "Inside?" His words are quick, if quiet, with little of flair or gentility. Not rude, but not exactly kindly either.OOC: I'm extrapolating from, well, nothing that Raven is bigger than Nurthk and is, thus, the 'larger of the two'. Apologies if it is not the case, an old man's poor vision. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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