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torn between feeling he was abandoning his duty and honor, and the certainty that remaining here at the war camp meant it was only a matter of time before another assassination attempt came. He was no coward, to run from death. Yet at the same time, neith
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r was he a fool. The unusual methods taken against him left him certain that he was dealing with no ordinary assassins, and that his chances of surviving another attempt were grim at best. It also left him with a strange blend of anger and curiosity, and 
he intended to satisfy both.
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After his meeting with StoneFingers the young Knight Captain spent all night and the better part of the following day puzzling over what he would do. There was no question he must leave, but how could he leave the war camp with
out rousing too much suspicion? He felt sure his killers would end up pursuing him, but if he could arrange to leave without his absence raising an alarm in camp, it would probably delay pursuit. Better yet, if he could offer some reason, some story for w
hy he was leaving, his assassins might not suspect he\rquote d discovered their presence. That could be a vital edge, the difference between surviving their next attempt and being cut down. So, how was he to do it?
\par \tab After wracking his brain to fabricate a plan, he
 at last saw a chance, a ruse that might hold up to scrutiny, at least long enough for him to be long gone before anyone, friend or foe, became suspicious. It was a risky plan with several key players who were outside his control. The first of which were 
the unpredictable and unreliable Haruke themselves.
\par \tab Who, as luck or fate would have it, came through for him just two short days later. Four days after their last incursion, the Barbarians raided the camp again, giving him just the chance he needed. Though
 it was a small raiding party, even smaller than the last, Rael was right in the midst of the fighting. Though the skirmish was brief, the Haruke fought with as much ferocity as ever. Rael cut down several warriors, and received a wound to his leg in the 
process.
\par \tab Word spread through the camp lightning quick. It was on every tongue, from the ranking Knights to the common foot soldiers to the serving folk that kept the camp running. Their Lord Captain had been injured, and what had seemed like a minor wound 
had become infected alarmingly fast, festering and worsening until it was feared he would lose the leg, if not die outright of blood poisoning. StoneFingers tended the Nobleman, spending days treating him and putting every shred of his medical talents to 
work keeping Rael alive. He would let none disturb the Captain while he struggled, and the Knight\rquote s supporting officers made do contending with running the war camp in the meantime.
\par \tab Finally, StoneFingers reported that the Nobleman would live. The camp breathed a collective sigh of relief. Spirits lifted and tensions eased, for Rael was much loved by his men and they\rquote d feared the worst. 
\par \tab He was not wholly safe yet, it turned out. Though StoneFingers saved the leg, the damage had left it weak and feeble. The
 infection that had taken it was a rare and strange one, and though Rael was alive, he was not in truth rid of it. The nature of the infection was such that the healing could relapse and the infection overtake him at any time. There was nothing further th
at StoneFingers could do for the Knight Captain. He did not have the medicines he needed to treat the infection, and he could not properly strengthen and rehabilitate the wasted leg here. 
\par \tab Rael was up from his bed, the once proud warrior hobbling here and 
there about the camp on a heavy oak walking stick. He bore himself as well as he could, his jaw set stubbornly, grimacing through the pain and humiliation. His men were at once proud of their Lord and afraid; afraid for him and for themselves. What were t
hey to do without their powerful Captain to lead them? 
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In his report to the Lord Knight Commander, StoneFingers had asserted that Rael was stable enough for some light and cautious travel, done slowly, but unless he were able to find time to rest and recov
er and, more importantly, receive the medicine he needed to clear the lingering infection, the Nobleman\rquote 
s leg would never recover soundly enough for him to see battle again. It was the Doctors recommendation that the Captain be sent away from the stress an
d danger of the field to recover someplace where he could rest undisturbed, have plentiful nourishing food, and access to the medical supplies and doctors who could make his leg hale again.
\par \'93And this\'85this\'85thrice damned mess of gods blessed elk droppings is what you\rquote re calling a sodding }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f0\fs24\insrsid7605251 plan}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f0\fs24\insrsid7605251 ?\'94
 Galin shouted at him, his whiskered jaw gawping open like a fool, showing the gap in his teeth.
\par \'93Will you be }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f0\fs24\insrsid7605251 quiet}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f0\fs24\insrsid7605251  you ass?\'94 Rael hissed at the older knight, glaring at him darkly. \'93You sound like a fisher\rquote 
s wife sharing the newest gossip. Gods, it\rquote ll be a wonder the whole camp doesn\rquote t think something\rquote s going on now.\'94 
\par Galin was too busy swearing to be quiet. Rael reached up and grabbed a handful of the old Knight\rquote s scraggly beard and yanked his head down. Which, of course, made Galin curse again.
\par \'93I need you to be quiet now,\'94 Rael told him, his earlier emotion gone, replaced by a steady, serious calm that caught Galin\rquote s attention and actually shut him up.
\par \'93You can\rquote t be serious with all this,\'94 Galin grumbled, but quietly this time.
\par \'93What else was I to do? I saw no other way. And I can\rquote t stay here,\'94 Rael said, and released his hold on his friend\rquote s beard.
\par \'93Don\rquote t see as why not,\'94 Galin snorted. He crossed his arms over his sinewy, still strong chest, and glowered at his commanding officer. \'93
So some half-assed assassin tries to put you in the dirt again. So what? You could put any man alive down your own self, not to mention the bloody }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f0\fs24\insrsid7605251 army}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\f0\fs24\insrsid7605251  around you!\'94
\par \'93And we both know it won\rquote t play out like that,\'94 Rael said, keeping himself
 calm and steady. Galin was ever the sort who fed off someone arguing with him, even his leaders. Playing the level headed and cool Captain would annoy him, but he would come around to the calmness of his tone, too. 
\par \'93If these assassins make for me again, and I know they will, it\rquote ll be from the shadows where none of us can get at them, and it\rquote 
ll be in a way none of us expects. Blind luck and a good lad in the wrong place at the right time was all that kept me alive last time. I won\rquote t have the same luck twice. And who\rquote 
s to tell who may end up getting caught in the way next time? No. I\rquote ll not risk it. I have to be away from here. And, I have to find out who is responsible for this. Arthas won\rquote 
t have died for nothing. His murderer, and whoever hired him, will pay.\'94
\par Galin gave a wordless \lquote harrumph\rquote . The old Knight didn\rquote t want to relent, but Rael knew the warrior understood vengeance and the need for honor well enough to stop arguing.
\par \'93Well, then, let\rquote s have a look at it,\'94 Galin said at last. He made to spit on the ground, realized he was in his Captain\rquote s tent, and stopped himself just in time.
\par It took a moment for Rael to realize Galin meant his leg. He climbed to his feet and pulled the loose fitting leg of his trouser up on the left leg to show Galin the scar ju
st above his knee, small and pink and healing well. In a few months it would probably be hardly a mark at all.
\par \'93Pah! It\rquote s a good thing none of the men are brazen enough to ask to see, or your story would fall apart on the spot!\'94 Galin chortled. \'93I took worse scars than that from my Dah\rquote s boot strap, and that was with my Ma swingin\rquote 
 it!\'94
\par \'93Your Ma\rquote s swinging arm is the stuff of legends,\'94 Rael said dryly as he let his pant leg fall. \'93I told you it wasn\rquote t as bad as StoneFingers said. The good Doctor has been very cooperative and made certain\'85
exaggerations in his reports to the Lord Commander. Word got around camp about it even faster than I thought it would.\'94
\par \'93Exaggerations? You call tellin\rquote  everybody you\rquote re gonna die or be hoppin\rquote  around on a peg the rest of your life a bloody }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f0\fs24\insrsid7605251 exaggeration}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 
\ltrch\fcs0 \f0\fs24\insrsid7605251 ?\'94 Galin scoffed.
\par \'93Yes,\'94 Rael replied.
\par \'93You\rquote re daft, the both of you,\'94 Galin asserted.
\par \'93I\rquote m not daft, Galin. I\rquote ve explained why this is necessary.\'94
\par \'93Did you even think about what kind of trouble you were putting StoneFingers in?\'94 Galin needled him, and though he kept his voice hushed, it was no less reproachful \'93
For the love of every god old and new, he lied to the Lord Knight Commander in an official report! About the health of a Knight Captain, one commanding a front line garrison no-less! He could be court marshalled! Hell, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 
\ltrch\fcs0 \i\f0\fs24\insrsid7605251 you}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f0\fs24\insrsid7605251  could be\'85\'94
\par \'93Galin.\'94 He was fighting for patience now, his words sharp and clipped; he knew the Knight meant well, but he didn\rquote t have time to convince the stubborn old fighter right now. \'93Stone
Fingers knew the risk. He took it because he trusts me. Do you? Or did I make a mistake bringing you in on this?\'94
\par That gave the warrior pause. Galin\rquote s much creased brow furrowed deep in thought. He leaned back on his heels as he ran his hand in a repetitive nervous habit through his beard and snagging it even further. \'93No. I mean yes. I mean\'85
Yes, I trust you. And no, you didn\rquote t make a mistake. But\'85Rael, why? Why }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f0\fs24\insrsid7605251 did}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f0\fs24\insrsid7605251  you bring me in on this? You\rquote 
re not even telling the Lord Commander about all this. So why me? And, hell, why not }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f0\fs24\insrsid7605251 him}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f0\fs24\insrsid7605251 ?\'94
\par Rael turned away. He took his pack from where it sat beside his cot and placed it on the table that was usually spread with reports and maps and strategies. Now instead, supplies for his journey were arrayed upon it. Rations and
 dried goods, mostly salted and cured beef and pork, dried oats, and other food supplies that would keep for the days ahead. He had a change of clothes, his heavy winter cloak, and several blankets. His hunting bow and a quiver of arrows, his skinning kni
f
e, two daggers, his flint and tinder box, and a number of flasks filled with water. He had two lengths of wood wrapped in oiled cloth should he need them for torches, and a map of the passes and major roads in the Dale, though he knew the way about in his
 lands well enough that he probably wouldn\rquote t need it. He still had more he needed to pack, but this was the bulk of it.
\par As he took stock of his supplies, he at last replied. \'93I\rquote m telling you because I need someone I can trust looking after things here. The Lord Commander will send someone to take over command in my absence, since you\rquote 
re too stubborn and old and crotchety to accept rank and do it yourself.\'94
\par \'93I\rquote m not old,\'94 Galin protested. 
\par Rael held up a hand to forestall further comment. \'93You know I don\rquote t leave this place lightly. I love these men, and I am proud of the service we\rquote 
ve done. Were I able, I would make this war camp withstand the Haruke till the end, and in time, I would take the fight to them from here. I need someone I trust here, being my eyes and ears, so that if something changes\'85
if the assassins should somehow reveal themselves here, or if the camp falls into jeopardy, I can be informed so I may act accordingly. I know that knowing what is at stake for me, you would never call me back lightl
y. And I also know that, knowing what is at stake for us all, you wouldn\rquote t hesitate to call me back if you must. True?\'94
\par \'93True,\'94 Galin nodded reluctantly.
\par Rael turned then, facing his old friend and menor. He clasped the older Knight on the shoulder and gripped tight, meeting his dark eyes. \'93I need you in this, my friend. I trust StoneFingers, true enough, but he\rquote 
s no Knight and no warrior. I need someone who understands what to keep eyes open and ears up for.\'94
\par \'93You never answered my other question,\'94 Galin said, evading. \'93Why don\rquote t you tell the Lord Commander all this?\'94
\par \'93Because I don\rquote t know who the Lord Commander will tell in turn,\'94 Rael explained, his gaze serious and never wavering. \'93It\rquote s not the Lord Commander I worry for, but the ears around him. I don\rquote t
 think him a fool, but neither can I promise he will be as cautious as I am. Nor those he tells as cautious as those I tell.\'94
\par \'93Pah!\'94 Galin growled, tossing his hands up. \'93Fine! Fine. Have your way, I\rquote ll be part of your blasted conspiracy. But by Elard\rquote s balls, I swear if we all hang for this, I\rquote ll haunt you sure!\'94
\par \'93I don\rquote t know if the dead can be haunted,\'94 Rael said, smirking despite the gravity of the situation, just because he could never help but find amusement in one of Galin\rquote s huffs.
\par \'93Shut your trap,\'94 Galin grumbled, thoroughly stewing at this point. \'93I can hear your Father cursing me all the way from his grave. There\rquote s a shiver gone up my spine\'85\'94
\par \'93Galin,\'94 Rael said, his tone gone serious again though a small, sincere smile played at his lips as he held a hand out in offering. \'93Thank you. You\rquote re a true friend.\'94
\par \'93Aye, a true friend. A true bloody idiot, too. Ah, well, I suppose that means I fit this plan perfect,\'94 Galin returned. He spat into his palm, and shook Rael\rquote s hand.
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where it was stuck in the thick, tussled locks of her black hair, tickling along the back of one of her sensitive pointed ears. It was cold, her breath a steaming cloud coming out in shaky, rushing puffs as she panted and let out ragged breaths The stable
s smelled exactly how a stable ought to smell, which was not at all pleasant, and she couldn\rquote t care less.
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Silmaria was on her back, her firm, shapely thighs spread wide and quivering as Jerol the stable hand roughly pounded his big cock into her sticky, dr
ipping pussy. She writhed beneath him, grunting and gasping and moaning and doing her best not to scream lest someone hear them. It was a distant worry at best; She\rquote 
d come down to the stables for a romp with Jerol enough times without being caught that she was pretty sure Nort the old StableMaster was either looking the other way, uninterested what his lads got up to, or deaf.
\par \tab Either way, Silmaria didn\rquote t care. She was entirely focused and preoccupied with the sensations of the fuck. Fu
lly in the grasp of the Stirring, it felt as if every nerve in her body were hotwired to her cunt, every sensory receptor finely focused on the sensation of the less-than-gentle stable hand driving the thick length of his bulging cock in and out of her cl
inging, pulsing pussy. Her back arched and she bit her full lip hard to choke back another orgasm. 
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A burst of searing fire shot through her body, wracking her form with waves of hot licking flames of pleasure, throbbing and flaring in sweet release, each p
ulse building on the next. Her heavy, ripe breasts quivered and bounced, and Jerol used one work roughened hand to squeeze and grip her lush tits, pinching and pulling at her nipples. The twinges of pain from his rough fingers only served to spike her rel
ease even higher.
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Silmaria collapsed back down to the straw strewn ground, and her hips continued to undulate and thrust with the man above her, desperately seeking more. Her pelt was slick with sweat, hers and his, and her cunt was dribbling out her necta
r steady and thick and sticky, running down her thighs and the crack of her firm, bunching ass and covering the man\rquote s plunging, thrusting cock, soaking the heavy length of it.
\par \tab The small enclosed space smelled of stables and sex, the smell of her arousal s
trong and demanding. Silmaria looked up at Jerol, and he was focused solely on his own pleasure, pounding her welcoming slit frantically and roughly, his cock filling her and stretching her deliciously open around him as his hips crushed down into hers. 

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he watched his face and saw no affection or tenderness there, only desire and lust and crude, base satisfaction. It made her shiver with self-loathing and shame and arousal, and then she was cumming again, gods, again already, and she didn\rquote 
t care, she just wanted more, more to fill this emptiness constantly gaping inside her\'85
\par His hand tangled in her hair, gripping and yanking at her scalp as he rutted into her hard and deep, his cock pounding its generous length into her clutching, flat belly. Silmaria let 
out a quiet hiss, the pain as always edging and complementing the pleasure so perfectly, accentuating it just so to give it an explosive quality that bled distinctly through the fog of her desperate hunger, lending clarity and delicious focus to how wicke
dly he used her.
\par He gave no word of warning or comment as he suddenly picked up speed, hammering into her for a few moments before his body went tense and rigid. A few quiet grunts, and he was cumming, spending himself inside her. Silmaria squirmed and moan
ed, grinding her cunt down onto the throbbing, jerking length of the stable lad as his thick Human seed spurted and splashed wet and warm in her feline belly. Silmaria clamped down tight on him, milking his cock for every drop, cooing as the warmth spread
 liquid and pleasant in her puffy, gripping tunnel.
\par All too soon, he pulled free, his fat cock popping wetly from her pink slit. Silmaria groaned in disappointed, left aching and open with the man\rquote s cum running in a sticky, thick river from her gaping fuckhole. 
\par \'93More,\'94 she whimpered softly as she sat up. She felt pathetic and wretched, but the Stirring was still surging through her blood, and she was desperate, and she didn\rquote t want to go find another man to sate herself with. She\rquote 
d had those nights before, and she hated them.
\par \'93I have work in the morning,\'94 Jerol complained. \'93Nort says we got\rquote s to muck out all the stable and check the horses for worms. Says the stable\rquote s fallen behind while we been helpin\rquote  with the harvest. Don\rquote 
t rightly see what stable folk like us got to do with harvests anyway. Don\rquote t they got you lot in the house for all that mess?\'94
\par Silmaria didn\rquote t bother explaining to him. Jerol was stupid. Not a simpleton, just stupid and dumb as dumb could be. Silmaria didn\rquote t care; she figured all the blood
 that most people got to go to their brains must have been occupied pumping to his generously endowed cock, and she was quite okay with that
\par Instead of arguing with him, Silmaria simply slunk forward along the stable floor, ignoring the way the straw and dirt pressed into her palms and knees, until she was at Jerol\rquote s feet. She then, without a single word, took the stupid stable hand
\rquote s half wilted cock and popped the sticky head into her mouth, slurping softly and slowly. She knew he would be sensitive, or s
he would have gorged herself on his prick right then and there. Instead she slowly, firmly ran her wet pink tongue along his flesh, licking him clean of their mingled fluids, the taste of his cum and her cunt strong and wicked and delicious. 
\par By the time Jorel\rquote s cock was back to full throbbing hardness, not so very long really, Silmaria\rquote s head was bobbing up and down his bulging length, taking his flesh into her warm, tight throat. Jorel wasn\rquote 
t thinking about his early morning anymore. The Gnari woman slurped and suckled for all she was worth, her tongue working enthusiastically along the heavy bottom of the man\rquote 
s shaft. Her throat constricted, squeezing heavenly, and she gagged softly, even as she showed no hesitation and continued to take the man deeply down her talented, graceful throat. Jorel\rquote 
s hands were soon in her hair, nearly gripping her cat-like ears, and his hips thrust to fuck Silmaria\rquote s beautiful face, making her lips puffy as they stretched around his girth.
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\ql \li0\ri0\sl480\slmult1\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid7605251 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f0\fs24\insrsid7605251 \tab Almost reluctantly, Silmaria broke o
ff, pulling back to gasp and pant for breath as she wiped the hanging rope of saliva that formed a bridge between her quivering lips and the man\rquote 
s twitching dick. She was quite enjoying sucking that impressive prick, but she had other plans, other needs that needed tending.
\par \tab In moments Silmaria was face down in the straw, her juicy, firm ass raised high and bouncing rapidly as Jerol plunged into her cunt from behind. She was crying out now, unable to silence herself as the stable hand stabbed and pounded an
d rutted into her drooling twat. Silmaria gripped handfuls of straw and grit her teeth as the man fucked her so hard and wantonly that it made her slit ache and throb with a heady mix of pleasure-pain, a perfect feeling that made her belly clench. 
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es skinned on the dirt, and she thrust her ass back even harder, making that fat cock plug and stretch her even deeper and wider than before. Her breasts swayed under her, bouncing in a frantic rhythm, her stiff nipples occasionally grazing the rough grou
nd. Her pussy, already filled with cum, spasmed in a wet squelch when Jerol\rquote s dick drove forcefully back in. Every time he withdrew a wet, sloppy mix of their fluids would come dragging out, running messily down the serving girl\rquote 
s supple thighs. Her ass slapped a wet, meaty staccato as it met his thrusting hips.
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s second release was the same as the first. His tensing, his slamming forward hard to burry into her desperately gripping pussy to the root. His cum spurted in heavy bursts in warm gushes of s
eed into her core, spattering wet and sticky against her already coated inner walls. Silmaria let out one final, shrieking orgasm at the feel of it spreading inside her.
\par \tab She collapsed, spent and exhausted, the Stirring at last done with her. For now. All 
Silmaria wanted to do was lay there, still and motionless, and let her body recover from the aching heaviness that suddenly settled into her every muscle, leaving her sluggish and lethargic.
\par \tab But Jerol was having none of that. He poked and prodded and pres
sured her to get herself together so he could get some sleep until, with a sigh, Silmaria grabbed her dress and shucked it on. She stood on shaky, tired legs and said nothing to the man as she stepped with far less grace than was her norm, and left the st
ables. What would be the point? He was crass and tactless, basically kicking her out after having his way with her, but it wasn\rquote 
t unexpected. They both knew what their little meetings were about. There was no love, no affection, not really even friendship between them. It was sex for sex\rquote s sake. 
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And that was entirely why she went to him to begin with. He, and a number of others, she chose because they didn\rquote t try to complicate things with feelings or romance or unwanted closeness. She just needed to quell th
e incessant torment of the Stirrings, and as simply and cleanly as she could manage that, the better. It also helped that those she bedded didn\rquote 
t gossip overmuch about their trysts. Which was probably more due to her being a Gnari than any surplus of gentlemanliness on their parts.
\par Which was not to say, of course, that there was no gossip at all. Whether they spread the word themselves or not, people talked.
\par The Gnari girl crept through the empty halls in the back of the Manor until she reached her room. Sh
e slipped inside and quietly stepped around the other serving women already sleeping on their cots. She found her cot and settled onto it. She grabbed her threadbare blanket and wrapped it around her slim shoulders. It did practically nothing to chase awa
y the chill, but the night was surprisingly so it didn\rquote t much matter and she wasn\rquote t too miserable.
\par Well, not miserable over the cold, at least. But Silmaria was miserable, nonetheless. Now that the Stirring had fled and her cravings were sated, she found he
rself filled with a melancholy and longing. She was lonely. She missed Master Edwin always, but more fiercely than ever in these moments. Though she often was able to be indifferent and practical toward her sexual encounters, there were times when she mis
sed the warmth of strong arms around her, the security of capable hands soothing away the sting and the bruise and the raw, overly sensitive nerve endings after a hard, thorough fucking. 
\par That was one of the things she had loved most dearly about being with Master Edwin; he hadn\rquote 
t been afraid to be rough and firm and demanding with her, to give her that edge of pain that forced her body and her mind, fuzzy and muddled with the Stirring into sharp, keen focus. But always he soothed away the hurt afterward, an
d he was always there, strong and steady and sure. He\rquote d given her strength and brought her back, calm and peaceful, from so many jumbled and violently intense emotions and sensations.
\par Silmaria wrapped herself up in a small little ball, her tail curling around her feet. Tears slipped down her cheeks, soaking into the soft, short fur of her face.
\par She heard and felt a shifting at her back, and glanced over her shoulder to see one of the other women, creeping toward her in the dark. She tensed for a moment, then relaxed when she recognized the old woman\rquote s face in the darkness.
\par \'93Sorry if I woke you, Lirena,\'94 Silmaria said quietly.
\par The old Human woman smiled, deepening the wrinkles at the corners of her mouth. \'93You didn\rquote t, little kitten. I don\rquote 
t sleep very much anymore, you know. I just lay here, listening to you girls sleep while I let my mind go whatever places it will.\'94
\par \'93I wish mine would stop going places,\'94 Silmaria sighed, and sat up with her knees pulled to her breasts to look at Lirena tiredly.
\par Lirena reached up with a wizen hand and plucked a bit of straw from Silmaria\rquote s mussed curls. \'93If you wouldn\rquote t let yourself go to these places while, your mind and your heart would be still when you slept.\'94
\par From any other woman, Silmaria would have been offended and hurt, and loudly told her where to take a walk to. From Lirena, Silmaria simply nodded absently. \'93I wish I could make it stop. I wish I didn\rquote 
t have these feelings, these cravings. They torment me.\'94
\par \'93I know, child,\'94 Lirena said gently, picking at yet more straw. Lirena was not Silmaria\rquote s friend, not in the way that Cook was. But she was an old woman, and wise, and could be kind in her way. She wasn\rquote 
t not exactly supportive of Silmaria\rquote s activities, but she didn\rquote t judge her too harshly either
, and seemed to genuinely try to understand why she did them. Lirena had lived a long time, and seen and heard many things. She had more of an open and experienced mind than most. \'93It\rquote 
s not an easy burden you bear. I wish this old mind had better answers for you.\'94
\par \'93I would do anything for answers,\'94 Silmaria sighed, brushing her curls from her eyes. \'93But I\rquote ve searched and searched. I don\rquote t think I\rquote m meant to be fixed.\'94
\par \'93There\rquote s nothing to fix, kitten,\'94 Lirena said, taking the young woman\rquote s hand and patting it gently. \'93You are as you are. Misunderstood and strange to most of us, but that doesn\rquote t mean there is anything wrong with you. You
\rquote ve a good heart. That\rquote s more than most have in these hard times.\'94
\par \'93That\rquote s nice of you to say, Lirena. But I don\rquote t think many here agree with you.\'94
\par \'93Many here wouldn\rquote t recognize wisdom if they stepped in it,\'94 Lirena replied with a wry smile.
\par Silmaria gave the hint of a smile despite herself. \'93Thank you, Lirena. Life would be easier if there were more people with your kindness.\'94
\par \'93That\rquote s true. But then I wouldn\rquote t be so special. And you\rquote d listen to me much less.\'94
\par \'93I\rquote m not very good at listening to begin with,\'94 Silmaria said with a depreciative smirk.
\par \'93Oh, that\rquote s not true. You listened to Master Edwin very well, as I recall.\'94
\par A bitter-sweet smile twisted Silmaria\rquote s mouth. \'93I tried to. I miss him, Lirena. So very much.\'94
\par \'93We all do, child,\'94 Lirena replied with a gentle smile, remembering. \'93He was a good man. And he would have told you to be careful. And to guard yourself.\'94
\par Silmaria shifted, feeling a spike of guilt, for he had given her just that advice so often. He would have been unhappy with her choices of late, not because he disdained her for them, but because he would have called them so dangerous and risky. \'93
Yes, he would have said just that. I\rquote ll be careful. I always am. Thank you.\'94
\par \'93You\rquote re welcome. Goodnight, Silmaria.\'94
\par The Gnari girl rolled over to face the wall, pulling her blanket tight around her curving form. The old woman meant well enough, but she could never really unders
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