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Ramella Tarina
It was when they reached the outskirts of the town that Daniel started acting strangely. He had been complaining of tiredness for the past two hours and it had taken Ramella the promises of a long stay in bed next morning to keep Daniel going for the rest of the afternoon. But then to Ramella's surprise when they reached the outskirts of the town Daniel stopped suddenly.
"Come on Daniel! We're nearly there."
The boy, standing there in the middle of the road looked at the town with a strange fear in his eyes. He looked at Ramella but did not answer.
"Ok. What is wrong this time?"
"I don't know."
"Oh don't be stupid, there is nothing wrong. In ten minutes we shall be sitting in the Tavern of the One Eyed Wolf happily waiting for our supper. Come on, one last effort."
Seeing that Daniel still did not want to move she walked over and picked him up, putting him sitting around her neck. She started moving towards the tavern, she could see at the other end of the town, but she had not made fifteen meters of progress when Daniel started to wildly move about at her neck and out of fear of dropping him she put him back down on the ground. Why was the boy acting this strangely? If something was wrong with him Ramella needed to get as fast as possible to the tavern and have a cleric see him.
As she sorted out her thoughts she saw that Daniel was slowly backing back towards where they had come.
"What is wrong with you Daniel?"
The boy answered, in a tone of voice Ramella had not heard from him before. A tone filled with fear, as if the boy could sense something she could not.
"I'm afraid. Something very bad is on the other side of the town."
Ramella looked at the boy with a somewhat curious expression on her face. She had to rethink the situation, but her priority was still to get a cleric to see the boy. Something was definately wrong with him.
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Daniel was tired and weak from all the running around during the morning. But there was nothing else wrong with him. It was because of his weakness that the banewolves advancing towards the Tavern of the One Eyed Wolf affected him from a much greater distance than they could affect his mother. He had to make her understand. They could not go towards the tavern. He had no idea what was there, but even moving a few feet closer was as if he doomed himself.
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