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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DoctorB" data-source="post: 79942" data-attributes="member: 903">Into the DwarvenrealmNonus 23, 417Toiva was having a very bad week.  Getting out of Sazon was a blessing but riding his new heavy warhorse, Frigate, had not been as easy as he had hoped.  His body was sore in places he didn’t even know he had.  Riding a horse resembled shipboard life not at all.  The final straw came when the sling-stones whistled from the surrounding hills.  Several of them struck him.  Had he been wearing his plate armor they might have bounced off, but he was in studded leather instead and took several nasty shots.  As he looked at their attackers, Toiva was surprised to see that they were all dwarves!  Didn’t they know the Champions were on their side?!  Where was that dwarf who had marched into their camp the other morning?  He had called himself Krag and said he owed Galena a life debt.  She had apparently freed him from Victor's triumph in Sazon during the confusion of the chaos worms.  Now he wanted to repay the debt.  Boy was this guy in trouble.  She liked looking down her nose at the other Champions.  What would she do with an obligated dwarf?Liana had apparently caught Krag the night before and had a talk about why he was following them.  Toiva had been waiting up hoping Liana would not get into trouble scouting on her own.  With difficulty, he had kept his eyes open until dawn, only to find that Liana had returned so quietly he hadn’t noticed.Against the ambush, Joy quickly called up a briarweb over half of the enemies, ensuring that they could not move without hurting themselves on the thorns.  Lux, Galena’ familiar, called out to the dwarves not to move, but of course they didn’t listen and almost killed themselves trying to get out.  Cobbe charged at the other side, and subdued one of them.Riding his warhorse past another of the dwarves, Toiva entangled the sling in his scimitar and ripped it from the dwarf’s grasp.  The other attackers had had enough.  Not satisfied with them just running away, Toiva brandished his sword at them as they went.  Cobbe rode back to the others.When Toiva returned, Krag had finally showed up and was berating the dwarves remaining in the briarweb.  Lux translated for Galena, but he was glowing red as he did so.  Could a Lantern Archon be embarrassed?As Joy healed the injured dwarves and let them go, Toiva tried to catch Liana’s eye but failed.  She was still angry with him.  He half wished he had not brought up Arin before they left Sazon, but there was something odd about the boy.  He seemed a teen-age human but with long white hair but he often cast spells to protect or aid the Champions.  Arin worked that magic in a way that Toiva had never seen and he could not believe the other Champions weren’t as curious as he was.  The others had no better ideas than he did.  Could Arin be a celestial being, or something else?  Whatever he was, they concluded, he was obviously an ally.  Cobbe seemed to think that was enough.  The mystery still tugged at Toiva, but he could do nothing about it for now.Liana had taken the discussion of Arin as Toiva questioning his right to be with them.  Something was growing between the two of them and Toiva thought she should know what he was before things went too far, if they hadn’t already.  She had not yet forgiven him for bringing it up.  He had to find a way to get back on her good side before she neglected to inform him of a danger that could kill him.</blockquote>

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