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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phoenix" data-source="post: 2604297" data-attributes="member: 16166">Sleep didn't come easy to Ru.  For once he was worried, if one could not dispose of one's enemies, what would the city come to?  He awoke late in the night after a nightmare, something about the shattered dwarf crawling up out of the harbour to hunt him once more.  Damn dreams.He stretched and licked his dry lips, water.  Rolling out of bed, Ru walked to the window and grabbed the water jug, gulping down huge mouthfuls of the stuff to sate his thirst.  His eyes subconsciously drifted outside, watching the few people that were still about.Two men were fighting in an alleyway nearby, swords clashed and shouts rang out.  Not really unusual in this part of the city.  Ru saw one of them ungraciously stab the other in the belly, the stranger falls to the ground, probably dead.The first man walks out of the alleyway, his body covered in wounds.  Three cuts across his face, half his left hand cut off, some of his insides hanging out of his stomach, there is no way that man could be standing.  Then his victim rises once more and leaps from the shadows into the street, slashing desperately and starting the fight anew.  Both have enough wounds on their bodies to drop the strongest of men, but still they continue on regardless.</blockquote>