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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 7642059" data-attributes="member: 9255">DARKSUN: THE ELEMENTS OF EVILSEGMENT 039“DRINK AND GO ”07/25/19SEASON: FRIEND’S VENGEANCE  YEAR 24MONTH: THE KINGSDAY: 06KA: 190Koe buys an entire bottle of wine at the Tsalaxa compound in Tyr.  “Tonight we drink and tomorrow we go.” He states to the thri-kreen Drak.“Sweet Water….. I drink with you…klik kik… Koe.”The first cup of wine each drinks quickly.  Then they sip the second.  Half way through the second Koe speaks breaking the silence.  “Been thinking.  Klok said something that seemed strange.”  Drak’s antennae cross in apprehension.  “He….whatever he said bothered you.  Hurt you.   What did he say?”“….. hik…… He said I had …. No ancestors….. no connection…klik….to the kreen…. The people.”“Is this true?” Koe asks as a young woman walks in and asks for a bottle of Broy.  She pays and sits down on the other side of the small company tavern.“Kik….It seems.”“I don’t understand.”“If klok…klik kik… is correct….. by being taken as …kik kik… an egg I was not allowed….. to commune with…. Ancestors.”“How would you….. oh.  The bodies.” Self-answers the mul.“Maybe it would be best to start from the beginning.”Drak finishes his cup of wine.  “I was taken….. as an egg.  Brought to Raam.  Was to be…. Fighter.”  Drak Drak continues to retell his origin only this time in common to Koe.  Koe is coming to understand the thri-kreen more and more.  He understands why he helped Klok and still seems preoccupied about his fate.“Do you….kik…. think he is right….Klok is right?”“Which part?”“I lack purpose.  I lack spirit?”“No.   You make own fate.”Drak remains quiet and stares at the wine bottle.  “Can I tell you….. a secret.”“Go.”“I ….felt something….. when burying the hatchlings.  An awareness.”Koe stares at him trying to determine what Drak is getting at.“I think…kik….klik…. I think I am done talking tonight.” And with that the thri-kreen picks up the bottle and steps outside and settles down on the porch.Koe wonders a bit about his life then suddenly realizes the woman is still here and watching him.  “What?”“You are….. Koe.   I have heard of you.” She slurs slightly.“I don’t have a name tag on me.”House Tsalaxa has only two muls under its service currently.  Bartus and Koe.   Bartus I have met and he is in Urik now.    Only house members may drink here….so you are- Koe.”  “Then you are correct.”  He watches as she gets up and walks to his table.  She has an athlete’s body and the face of a noble.  Her hair is silver with bright blue tips.   Her armor is well made leather.  Finely made…. Maybe even magic.  He approves.“Your friend seems to be having an identity crisis.  That is too bad.”“His problem.  Not yours.”“Do you wish to know what my problem is?” she asks.“Not especially.”“I am horny.” She pauses for a reaction which Koe gives none.“I hear Muls are incredible. Is that true?”“It would seem so.” And he thinks about his last time.  It has been six years…… in the monastery.    When they upstairs there is no else there.   In the morning Drak goes up and finds them there asleep.</blockquote>

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