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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hbarsquared" data-source="post: 2812915" data-attributes="member: 4550">MannecinniThe damp, night air soaks through Mannecinni's rain cloak, weighing heavily on his alloy skin and his depressing thoughts.  With a sigh, he  shifts the package of spell components beneath his cloak as he awkwardly trudges up the slanting road that connects the two concentric avenues.  With head bowed, the golem retraces his exact route from Skie's leading back to his home, stepping on the same cobblestones and avoiding the same cracks he has innumerable times before.Perhaps innumerable is too strong a word.  One hundred and eighteen times before would be a more accurate description.Without thinking, Mannecinni ducks beneath an overhanging sign and steps over a cracked stone, his thoughts dwelling on the missing Evelyn.  The orhpan girl has not stopped by the shop for days, and Mannecinni has begun to feel a strange, twisting sensation in his abdomen.  He contemplates visiting the orphanage the following day, but the thought of discovering something that he fears fills him with dread.She will be back tomorrow, he convinces himself, I am sure of it.He hefts the package again, attempting to prevent the rain from finding its way beneath his cloak and spoil the expensive contents, when a sudden cry pierces the air.Mannecinni lifts his head and pauses, one leg frozen in mid-step, foot hovering two inches above the next cobblestone.The cry came again, this time a distinctive call for help, coming from the alley he had passed just moments before.  Turning, Mannecinni walks to the alley to investigate and aid whoever called for help.</blockquote>

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