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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kinem" data-source="post: 5446992" data-attributes="member: 24234">Raul listens closely to Jiles' story, and serves the tea in mugs. It tastes pretty good."I've never heard of such people. It sounds like they were just trying to defend their home, so it is well that your friend did not smash them.There seems to be a wide variety of life in this land of yours - midgets, giants, strange creatures of all sorts.It appears that I owe you a tale, but my life is not so adventurous, and I am not in a mood to speak of my personal past. So instead I will sing you a song of my people. Well, not of my own tasque, but of another tribe. Yet it suits my mood very well."The song, which he sings in a soft but clear voice, is reminiscent of the rythms and intonations of the violin music he had earlier been playing."Why do you wander, o maker of music?Why do your strings weep?Why do you starve?Because I have no home.Because I have no hope.Because I have no harvest to reap.Where are your roots, O wandering slave?Where are your ancestors?Where are you gardens of plenty?Torn from the soil.Torn from the memory.Torn from the feeble hands of my children.How can this be, o tearful wretch?How can this happen?How can this go on?Because I murdered my friend.Because I murdered my comfort.Because I murdered my place in the sun.Why did you do this, O miserable one?Why did you murder?Why did you kill the one you called friend?He stole my true love.He stole my own heart.He stole my only reason to live.What will you do, O cursed fool?What will you suffer?What will you do to make amends?Nothing but wander.Nothing but starve.Nothing but play my melancholy violin.When will it end, O pitiable fetch?When will it rest?When will it all be over for you?Never, never, never, never, never ..."He lets the words die in his mouth, and drinks a sip of the tea. "We should try to get some sleep. There is most likely enough time. Do you want to set watches? I will do as you wish."</blockquote>

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