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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 5710135" data-attributes="member: 21938">The innkeeper makes himself comfortable."Stop me if I'm telling you what you already know," he says. "Kurik likes talk almost as much as he likes money."You'll note the lack of Lord's castle in Cahli," he says. "For a long time, we've had a more powerful defence than men-at-arms; 'our' wizard Tizun Thane. I can still remember how he repelled an Ur-man fleet with his magic."About six months ago, two men arrived claiming to be Thane's brothers. They and their entourage went down to Thane's demesne, over in the hills to the south. It wasn't long after, about the first full moon since, that the Night Things first came. What fighting men we had tried to hold them off, but they were killed, or carried off. Since then they've come down to town every full moon. Locked doors and windows keep them out a bit, but we still lose some people every month."Men come to town every month, in the daytime, and always at the other end of the month to the Night Things, but we learn nothing from them. They're just bully boys working for the Thane brothers. And then, starting two months ago, we've had the other little winged creatures coming in the night. They're easier to fight off, but they've been known to carry off bairns. And there's no-one left in Cahli who can stop them."</blockquote>