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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallak" data-source="post: 3359102" data-attributes="member: 37105">Naomi looks at Colmarr, and her eyes pool up with tears.  Her lower lip begins to tremble as she huddles there in the moonlight.  Finally, the dam breaks, and she falls weeping into Colmarr's lap.  Her blubbers are loud and long and shuddering, and she can't seem to breathe enough.  She coughs and splutters, weeping into his chest.  At moments, it sounds like she's trying to talk, but the sounds coming out of her mouth aren't words.  She weeps.Though Grondar doesn't know the first thing about handling animals, he does know a thing or two about mutts.  The dog is filthy and stinks of refuse.  Its fur is mottled and matted so that it is difficult to tell what color it is.  As Grondar approaches, it lowers its head and spreads its front paws wide, hackles up, growling deep in its throat.  As Grondar talks to it more, the dog stops growling and begins to sniff him out.  It watches him cautiously, keeping just out of reach, but it follows him as he makes his way back to the boat.Denther wanders from the docks into town, looking for the nearest pub.  A dockside tavern, the Wharf Rat, catches his eye, and he ducks into it.  The place is a filthy hole-in-the-wall, with bad lighting and grimey glasses, but a man stands behind a bar serving booze.  It's quiet, mostly dock workers hunkered over their various poisons.  In one corner, dice rattle in a cup, but the players are all subdued.  Near the back, a man sits with a stringed instrument plucking soft, strange chords.  He seems to be merely passing the time rather than making any attempt at entertainment.  This music has a sad sort of quality, as if there were no more hope left in the world.  After a bit, he begins to sing softly.[sblock=His Song]"Well met, well met, said an old true love.Well met, well met, said he.I have just returned from the salt, salt sea.And it's all for the love of thee.""Come in, come in, my own true love,And have a seat by me.It's been three-fourths of a long, long year,Since together, we have been.""I can't come in and I can't sit down,For I've only a moment's time.They say you're married to a house carpenter,And your heart will never be mine.""I could have married a King's daughter, fair,And she would have married me,But I have forsaken her crowns of gold,And it's all for the love of thee.""Now you forsake your house carpenter,And go along with me.I'll take you where the grass grows green.On the banks of the deep blue sea."Then she picked up a darlin' little babe,And kisses, she gave it three.Saying "Stay right here, my dalrin' little baby,And keep your pappa company."They had not been on the ship two weeks,I'm sure it was not three,Till his true love began to weep and to mourn,And she wept most bitterly.Sayin': "Are you weepin' for my silver and my gold."Sayin': "Are you weepin' for my store?Or are you weepin' for your house carpenter,Whose face you'll never see no more?""A curse, a curse to the sailor," she cried."A curse, a curse," she swore."You robbed me of my darlin' little babe,That I shall never see no more."They had not been on the ship three weeks,I'm sure it was not four,When there came a leak in the bottom of the ship,And sank them for to rise no more.[sblock=OOC]"House Carpenter" by Nickel Creek<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B000066TPM001009/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_009/102-4751911-3240911" target="_blank">Listen</a> (Requires Windows Media Player)[/sblock][/sblock]Down on the gangplank, Eloise is crying.The girl shies away from the barbarian Troth and throws herself into Magyar's arms, crying against his chest.  "Oh, Magyar, it's aweful, terrible!  He's so beat up and now they're gonna kill him and--"  She takes a deep, shuddering breath. "I was down in the market buying bread and meat for Mother for the inn tonight because she's making beef stew and wanted bread bowls and we didn't have any bread bowls because everyone loves Mother's bread so much that they always eat it up, so she wanted extra hard crusty bread and I have to go to the market to get that from Jon, when I saw Wakil and there were some guards there and they arrested him and they accused him of horrible things and they just can't possibly be true can they and he was with that fellow Braer and did you know he's an elf and now the whole city's in an uproar and I just don't know what to do they're searching people's houses and they beat him so badly and they said they're going to hang him!"  Eloise is talking very rapidly and seems to be hyperventilating.  "Oh, he didn't do what they said he did, did he?  I mean, he couldn't, could he?  He seemed so nice, even if he was quiet, but Mama says you have to watch out for the quiet ones, but I just know he couldn't and I went to see him in prison but and first they wouldn't let me but then they did and he gave me a message for Malachi and he said that Captain Ben was dead too--"  Here she dissolves into uncontrollable sobs.  She tries to choke out words through her tears, but for a while, nothing intelligible comes.  "He said he died in that fire last night, he burned all up, and, oh, that isn't true, is it?  I mean, that's just aweful, it just couldn't be, I couldn't tell Mother, and, but now they're going to kill Wakil and Braer and some guy name Deeter says they stole a bunch of stuff but that's not why they're gonna kill them it's because Widow Clooney said that he killed her husband Shaun but that can't be because Shaun was so brutally murdered in his bed and Wakil just wouldn't do that, I know it!  And Niles and Reggie, those are Shaun's friends, they're dead, too, and she's saying he killed them all and stole her children, only no one knows where the children are, and they're blaming all the murders on Wakil and Braer, except that Widow Clooney said there was somebody else, too, a big strong wild man and a smaller man, too, and she gave descriptions, and but neither of them was Braer, but they arrested him anyway because he's an elf and they called him a spy!  And, oh!  This boat is moving..."  Eloise's voice fades, her eyes roll back, and she collapses into Magyar's arms.</blockquote>

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