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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1295571" data-attributes="member: 4441">*Norin, at your words, Brel seems a bit confused, then brightens a bit.*"If I can git a few more meals like brekkist 'ere I can work pretty good!  I got clever 'ands, me mates used to say, I kin work with them e'en if I can't walk.  Ye think maybe if I work 'ard enough, maybe someday... I'll get a new foot?" he asks, showing a child's remarkable resiliance and adaptivity.*If you ask around a bit more about this incident and the Beggar King again, you're brought to the side of Brother Vess, an old acolyte.  He never had the ambition to climb the church heirarchy, but since he was given to Heironeous at a young age, never thought of leaving to join a more compatible faith.  Regardless he had worked at the Honor's Shield for years, and is a respected figure.**He's been put in the isolation ward, and for good reason.  The healers tell you he was infected by the blinding sickness, but that is not as nearly as bad as what happened to the boy he brought in.  They won't take you to him, but they will tell you that a young boy with a wounded face was brought in with him.**Talking to Vess, the brother is working through the last of his fever, as the potion the healers gave to him finishes its work.*"I never saw the like before.  One of the beggar children ran all the way here to fetch me, said there was an old woman with a sick child that needed help.  I went to them, she was holding the child in her arms... I pulled back the rags.  Oh in the name of all glory!  The boy's face was a ruin!  Covered in blood...  And then the woman was not a woman, but a hunched, ugly, sick-looking man.  He struck out at me an screamed in fury to not come to take people out again.  That those people were 'his.'  I don't know what he did to me, it happened so fast, but I was in such pain, and I felt a weakness go through me and my vision grayed...  It was all I could do to stagger back to the Sheild."I know you were out helping others Saint Norin, but this has me rather scared.  I probably saw the face of the Beggar King, but I couldn't tell you what he looked like if my soul depended on it.  It's clear he's doing great evil in the Hollow but... and may the Lord of Valor forgive me, there is always great evil in the Hollow.  "You were called here for a reason, that much I can guess, for one such as you to be called, there must be great terrors to overcome, things to make the Hollow seem a child's park.  I pledge to you I will call for senior priests and Guardsmen to investigate, but you would be risking much to get entangled in such things now.  Let us take care of the lesser of the two evils."</blockquote>

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