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"Oh?!" Renault stopped. "Lord Dimitri, an honor." The man looked very, very nervous. The man was pale and began to shiver.
"I weren't gonna to over there..." Renault began to mumble. "I kicked the junk nigh on three cycles ago..." He looked forelorn.
"You see I did this a favor for this new friend of mine Lord Dimitri. I was carrying something from Nexus to Vortex when I's gets robbed and beat up on the road. This friend of mine, he tells me I owe him the amount of what I lost. He tells me 2000 crowns. I don't understand all that hubub over some dang book." Renault huffed.
"I just don't. Not fair, I get roughed up, almost die, and now I'm gonna get slit unless I give him 2000 crowns! I only got 100 to my name!" Renault sniffed away a tear and jangled an empty coin purse. "I's needs some help Lord Dimitri. I can help you, you know Renault is a good man, you halfta know that, right? Good in a fight I am." He looked pitiful, just another hunted man in Vortex.
Down the street Kalenel heard it all, out of the eyesight of all. His fine hearing heard something.
tap...tap...tap...
Someone was coming, a little halo of fire illuminated the buildings down the street. It was approaching Kalenel, it was a torch. One of Dimitri's orcs snorted and faced in Kalenel's direction. In between the orc and Kalenel was the bar patio. Inb between the patio and the house were Dimitri, the orcs and Renault. The long buildings on this street afforded little in the way of alleyways for Kalenel to utilize.
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