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Durin looked out over the cold water, shark fins bobbed nearby and it looked as if it was going to rain. Shevine shivered, pulling her cloak around her slender shoulders, the cruel winds nipped at her delicate ears and her eyes held that far away look that meant that she was planning something. Sister Lisa leaned on the sacred blade calmly eyeing the cold waters.
"What's the tally so far?" asked Father Telar, resplendant in his new paladinic gear, his former priestly robes cast aside.
"Well," mumbled Gertha Drin," we could use his ship, I mean, that pirate won't need it anymore, stupid coward, shouldn't have stabbed me."
The rest of the group looked towards the gnome and nodded assent, all except for Carenis who looked at the circling fins.
"Carenis want new choppy thing," he bellowed," Carenis sees dead fishes."
Lisa cast a look of despair at Telar, "Didn't we get him a new sword last time we where back at Brimloch Roon?" she asked.
Durin ground his teeth noisily," Nah, there weren't any good enough. Besides," he continued," that Imperial Gladius of his isn't bad, 'xcept for the fact that stabbing weapons are useless." He hoisted his axe to prove his point.
"How many on the tally?" asked Shevine Callisham, her fin elfin voice almost carried away upon the breeze. A delicate eyebrow arched inquisitively as if in expectation of some rare and exciting answer.
"Same as last time," grumbled Father Telar," three water helms and two crab shells. We still haven't found any more and Buckly isn't making those helms like he said he would."
"Well," Durin spat a gobbet of plhegm that landed in the nasty looking water and vanished as a pack of piranahs investigated the disturbance," it ain't over the sea that we've got to go but under it," Gertha scowled at his statement of the obvious," and Stonefather alive but I'm not going down there without the right breathing gear.I mean who knows how far down we'll 'ave ter go ter get to this Collasium."
"I've just had a brilliant idea," it was Shevine again, her soft silky voice calling all to attention," why don't we go and seek the wisest sages of the land and ask them why Buckly isn't making anything and why we haven't seen any crabs since we started on the Shrine of Anephas."
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Balgin, the Dwarf
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