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 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:31 pm
"The crops have been failing all of fall." The man grimaces. "We've survived on grain storage, but we might not make a full year. And I never asked, because it's none of my business."
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:38 am
"But I've been asking you a whole bunch of questions that are really none of my business." Tanni smiled slightly. " And I know nothing about this area." She looked out over the wide expanses of grassland.
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:53 am
"If you know nothing about this place, then what are you doing here?" the man asks.
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:35 pm
"not much. Traveling. Looking for someone who loves places like these." she smiled ruefully. "falling out of trees."
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:25 pm
"Well, you obviously don't know how things work around here. The 'king' controls everything around here, and the lords support them because he keeps them fat. They don't care about us villagers, and now that we have a famine, they are trying to find any food they can. They took everything from my family except the grain, but that won't last." The man wipes away a tear from his eye. "They killed my father and brother when we ran out of meat. We need help, but noone listens."
(I'd get to a fighting part, except this isn't my guy, but we're almost at the farm.)
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:44 am
Tanni looked out over the grasslands. She couldn't imagine why anyone would want to rule a place like this, but sometimes nobles were just like that. " So they might as well be slavers. They're just sugar-coating the whole thing by being soldiers, and nobles." She looked at the horizon. "Yep. They'll be here. I'm sure of it, now."
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 5:58 pm
"Who'll be here?" the man asks in confusion.
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:19 am
"A friend of mine." Tanni smiled slightly. "Well, they don't really know me. But they're pretty famous back where I came from, so It's kinda hard to not know."
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:51 pm
"Oh. Well the farm is just over that hill." The man says.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:46 pm
As they crested the hill, Tanni caught sight of a small building, with a barn next to it. The only things wrong were that there were no animals in the grazing pens, and The fields of grain that people were toiling in were brown and dry.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:24 pm
The man looks over the farm, with a look of sadness in his eye. Suddenly, a small child, 3 years old, runs up shouting "Daddy! Daddy!"
The man picks up the boy and hugs him. "This is my son. Adam. I also have a daughter, and two other sons." He then puts the child down, and says "Go get Grandma okay." The child runs off, and he looks at Tanni and says "She'll be in the house." He then leads the horse to the house.
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:49 pm
Tanni felt slightly guilty. She could heal herself now, but it would be rude to simply throw off his offer for help. Well, if his mother was a good mage, she would sense Tanni's power. She would try to repay them by finding out what was killing the crops, she decided.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:32 pm
As they near the house, a man about 25 comes up. "Good to see you dad." he says. He then looks at Tanni. "My names Jeric. What's yours?"
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:24 am
Tanni smiled. "My name is Tanni." She said. She examined Jeric, noting his tanned skin. He seems nice. she thought.
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:32 pm
"Well Tanni," the man says "You don't know my name either. I forgot about the introductions. My names Tam. My mothers name is Maria. My daughter," he points at a girl about 12 sitting at the table "Heather. And my other son is somewhere... But he's Jacob." He then calls to an old lady coming out of the back room. "This girl, Tanni, hurt her... foot? When she fell from the tree."
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