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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 2166591" data-attributes="member: 18280">"You mean the little sneak with its poisoned needles?  Not much of a threat to anything what can think its way around a trap.  Isn't that right, pet?""Right as rot, my love."  The second rat stopped moving.  It was now in flanking position."Miller shouldn't be surprised if he hears voices in an old mill," Norby continued, his voice taking on a sing-song effect.  "Miller shouldn't be surprised if he asks for advice, and what, someone answers him, right?  Here's a secret for you."  The rat's eyes glitter wickedly.  "Miller's grandfather, maybe the Miller's grandfather's grandfather, he built this mill by the stream.  He built it out of what was lying around.  He built it where stones were easy to come by, and where he didn't have to carry them far.  You see what I mean?  No?  Dwarfie Run isn't the only barrow in Kell's Reach, is it, pet?""No, Norbert.  There's another.""It's all barrow stones, this.  Built over another barrow, long ago.  Bones down under our feet.  Come out to these old stones and pray, ask for guidance, who knows what might answer, right?  Maybe this miller will summon dead warriors to do his bidding.  Maybe there's old spirits tied up in these stones, might help him.  Maybe somebody whispered sweet nothings in his ear."The second rat snickered."Ah, now, my trixie Beatrix, amusing as it may be to those of us whose lot is to live down among the bones, I don't think this fine feline fellow is quite so tickled.  So, let me tell you a thing or two to ease your mind, Maldordo.  First, I can speak whispered human speech with the best of them, so the miller's plan is sound enough as any I've ever had.  And a rat knows a thing or two about traps, if he's to be long in the world, I can tell you.  And don't get that look on your face, because I didn't tell him to sacrifice no children, either!  Where he got that idea, I don't know.  "Other thing I'll tell you is this:  My Trix and I are a might peckish, and neither one of us has taken a bite out of you.  By which I mean to say that we're rats, yes, but we're country rats.  Not bad as rats go.  None of your dockside dealings for us, right?  So, when you're talking to your fine human friends you might want to remember us, and make sure that the miller is buried close to the mill."  The rat licked his lips.  "He'd like that, you know.  We'd see to it that little bits of him were spread about, as it were."</blockquote>

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