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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 635209" data-attributes="member: 5137">NorthFor a moment or two, everyone stood there, absorbing. The second armorcat had run away with the death scream of the first. Two lay dead. Merideth was healing Athan.Then the redheaded merc shrugged inside her leather jerkin and started stripping off the valuables on her late comrade. Athan, Greppa and Merideth were a bit shocked, but no one else seemed to notice. Then the two bodies were buried over the remainder of the day, while Uridates chafed at the delay in his wine business.When the bodies were buried, the redhead finally showed some emotion over the battle."We can't just leave it!""There's no way we're hauling that thing around. Corpses start to stink, you know.""But... That thing's worth a lot of money!"No one was willing to share a wagon with an armorcat corpse, however, least of all Uridates, so she finally started trying to skin it, to at least get part of its hide.Which would have been good, if she'd known how. Instead, she ended up with a meaty tarp and a lot of blood. Finally, she left it behind, and grumbled about lost value for several miles of winding valley road. Greppa barely slept that night. He trusted the foreigners even less than before.Athan, on the other hand, was the center of attention. Mithas and Tital had been bashing their swords into the armorcat's back when Athan had broken its neck with his bare hands, and they were mightily impressed. Even after Athan explained Greppa's spell to them. The three stayed up for most of the night, talking about past battles.Mithal and Tital were each the third child of wealthy families, and had been raised warriors before figuring out how useless they were to their families. They'd headed out to adventure and live by their wits, and had been together for four years thus far, and had met all manner of wild creatures, although never an armorcat. For his part, Athan told them of his fight with Gach, and all three traded a few war stories.The days after that passed more easily. Another armorcat was spotted, and spears and swords were brought out. It lazily watched them from the rocks above the trail, then stretched to its feet and padded off. And then, the Southpass into the Aglaonis valleys loomed ahead.</blockquote>

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