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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 535846" data-attributes="member: 5137">The Broken TempleMerideth was hot to go get torches, but Greppa was unwilling to leave the cave "just... open like that". Finally, Athan agreed to stay at the cave while the other two ran for torches.After Greppa and Merideth had left, Athan settled down into a nice spot, rested his butt on the ground and his head on a spear, and watched the cave.For a while, he just spent time thinking about his two compatriots. He'd grown fond of them, and very protective... and both were intent on chasing mad dreams in the very dangerous wilderness. He didn't mind that so much, as just worry for them.Merideth was fragile enough, and couldn't fight her way out of a paper bag, but Greppa! The boy was skinny enough for an orc to use him as a tooth pick, and while he was handy enough with the spear in tournaments, could barely push the head through a straw target, much less a shield or bone.Athan sighed and shook his head, keeping himself awake. He felt like he'd left off watching out for his younger siblings to start covering for a pair of new ones. Still, Merideth seemed to have a nose for trouble, and Athan had discovered within himself a deep and abiding love for trouble.He chuckled about that, knowing he'd never admit to it with the others, and began fantasizing about dead orcs piling up beneath his spear...When his eyes finally drooped, six hours later, a pair of man-sized, brown-furred spiders quickly scurried toward him from the shadows. It wasn't a good decision.Athan scrambled to stand up as they attacked, taking two ferocious bites but failing to slump or fall. Instead, in almost a single motion, he stabbed one and decapitated the other with the head of his spear."Yeah! Come on, ur pashin aknah! Come and get me!"He continued to insult them, but no more braved the space outside the cave. Athan grinned, and began cleaning off his spear. Orc was a damned fine tongue, whatever he might think of the tribes personally.More Orcishur = you, in orcish, with kind of a "You! Over there!" to itpashin = as mentioned earlier, this means wuss, wimp, pansy, etc. In old orcish it was 'clean ear'.aknah = crawler, or 'low belly'; used to refer to most insects, but also to cowards who are petitioning you for mercy.</blockquote>

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