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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 1663750" data-attributes="member: 5948">ooc1: Thanks Ghostknight, I was wondering about the name thing!ooc2: Maerdwyn, it's your call on the dream.  I'm happy to let things go on as they are if you'd prefer, because Melech (with a +2 modifier) is hardly the best dream-interpreter in the world anyway.  If you do want to send it to me, then my email address is humbleminionATyahooDOTcomDOTau.  One other thing - I've googled, but I haven't managed to find this out - what is the 'Hik Shasu'?ic:As the rainstorm intensifies, Melech re-enters the camp, soaked to the skin, water trickling down his face and through his grizzled beard.  Rolled up in his pack is a fresh wolfskin, and dried blood cakes his hands and Paqad's muzzle.  On seeing the spiral of people in towards Aaron's pyre, he remembers the words of Hadar and follows along.By the time he arrives, the crowd is already dense and the mood ugly.  Unable to see over the press but filled with an urgency he cannot rationally explain, Melech clambers on top of a nearby boulder for a clearer vantage point.  He sees the scuffle break out, and Hur pelted with rocks.A lighting bolt cracks into the ground nearby, filling his vision with violent purple aftershadows.  Dazzled, Melech blinks furiously, and for a terrifying instant his tear-filled eyes show him a crowd in which every member wears the scarred, light-skinned face of his dreams.  It is over in an instant, but as his night vision returns, Melech, fearful,  unobtrusively unwraps his bowstring from its protective cloth and draws an arrow.  Paqad paces whining about the base of the boulder, wary, hackles standing on end.  Melech spares the hyena a glance, and hushes him with a reassuring word.  A dangerous night it is indeed - even Paqad knows it.  All the more reason to be careful.  It would be far too easy for something terrible to happen tonight.Laying his arrow down, though not yet replacing it in his quiver, Melech turns his attention to the crowd.  He scans it for familiar faces - Hadar, Peleg and Amin, as well as the dream-face.  At the same time, he looks for those people who were throwing the stones.</blockquote>

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