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Faraine: “So, he just grabbed you?”
Tyto: “Yea, I just sitting there minding my own business...”
Faraine: “Then he cast a spell on you, and he is the one who died?”
Tyto: “Talk about getting yourself killed over nothing.”
Tyto: “After that I got dragged off to the academy and they ran tests on me for hours.”
Kyaren: “They did not find any thing aside from the usual, not even traces of necromantic magic.”
Faraine: “It is so intriguing, Why you? Why try to use magic to harm you?
Faraine: “There are so many more reliable ways to kill; poison, backstabbing, bludgeoning….”
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Faraine:“…Suffocation, trample them with a horse, arrow fire. I mean the list goes on.”
Faraine: “Once we get back from the caves, seeing this attack will be interesting.”
Kyaren:“You have quite the morbid curiosity, your highness.”
Tyto: “Probably why she wants to go Pylock caves.”
Faraine: “Please just call me Faraine, no need for formalities.”
Kyaren: “I don't mean to pry it is just… why do you need to get to the caves?”
Faraine: “This is an important matter, that has been eating away at me for some time.”
Tyto: “Your grandmother’s murder?”
Kyaren: “Tyto!”
Faraine: “Hmmm, it is alright, it is the most famous mystery in recent memory.”
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Faraine: “Ow, why is the ground so uneven here?”
Kyaren: “Sorry, this is how ground outside cities is like. You will get used to it.”
Tyto: “We only need to pass by a few more farms to reach the caves.”
Tyto: “One fang turn, and we will be there.”
Faraine: “Fang?”
Kyaren: “Ignore him, he is trying to make up his own slang words again.”
Tyto: “It will catch on Kyaren, then you will be very jealous.”
Kyaren: “ugh.”
Tyto: “It means sharp, like the fangs of a wolf!”
Faraine: her eyes wonder as if recalling a distant memory “Yes, that is very true.”
Tyto: “Err, there is a group of people leaving the Denlock’s place.”
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Kyaren: “Bandits, of course they strike when everyone is still at the faire.”
Tyto: “Do we try to stop them, or go around?”
Faraine:“This is the last thing we need. How do we stop them any ways?”
Tyto: “Kyaren, a surprise spell could go a long way here.”
Kyaren: “I can bind 3 maybe 4. The rest would be for you and Faraine.”
Tyto: “Sneaking around it is.”
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Tyto: whispering gently “A little to the left.”
Kyaren: “I don't see it.”
Faraine: “You mean this stick, right?”
Tyto: “Almost there.”
Bandit: “You hear something over there?”
Another Bandit: “Eh, probs just a stray.”
Tyto: “Almost there, just mind the rock on this wall it looks.”
Faraine: “GAWH!”
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Faraine: “Owww, eh.”
Bandit: “That’s a mighty big stray.”
Another Bandit: “GET HER!”
Tyto: “Spells, spells, now.”
Kyaren: rifling through her belongings “Not this one, where is it!?”
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Bandit: “Watch out! There are more of these brats.”
Another Bandit: “We can take three easy.”
Bandit: “What th..”
Kyaren: “Enten Ten Cor !”
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Kyaren: “That’s two!”
Kyaren: “Are you okay?”
Faraine: “Yes, ugh.”
Tyto: “KYAREN BEHIND YOU!”
???: “I suggest you cease channelling that spell, or my dagger will make it’s home, in your back.”
Kyaren: “!”
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???: “All three of you surrender, and you get to live.”
Tyto: “Damn it.” His improvised weapon makes an audible thunk.
Faraine: “.....”
Kyaren: “Please do not stab me, I am putting down the scroll.”
???: “Don’t forget your scroll case.”
Bandit: “Heh, not so scary are you now mage girly.”
Another Bandit: “What if she uses magic again, we should cut her throat!”
Kyaren: “Heeeerrpp.”
???: “No need, she does not have any spell casting foci, gag her and keep hands her full.”
???: “All right, you three you are going to help us carry our ill-gotten gains.”
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