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Aldebaran sucked in a tight breath before answering the mage. "I've nowhere else to be," he said. "This road is as near to any home I've had in some time, and the young master's company is as grand as any I could hope to keep." He held some disdain for the saddle. His piebald mare lathered at...

There was a lazy cadence to the exchange. The dragon's voice trilled in the wells of Aldebaran's chest, nestled him as a babe in swaddling cloth. Perhaps fear made for a proper reply, wariness even, but the old man could muster the breath for neither. So he smiled, a show of lip and a shine of...

Aldebaran stuck behind his companion, content to scan the darkness for further of the creatures in the sudden hush. The guise of silence caught breath in his throat, hesitation thick as the haze of sleep. His body coiled, knuckles white on the walking stick, swallowing against the urge to stop...

The three marks laid heavy in Aldebaran's palm. He reeled at the arrogance of the display. To casually throw coin and assume a problem went away—truly an affect borne on privileged wing. He saw it manifest in that sneer, in the flick of a chin demanding (yes, for no other recourse was in its...

"Nothing, I suppose," Aldebaran said, staggering a step and catching his breath; the heavy hand had pulled him taut, and summarily pounded home every bit of the eve's exhaustion. It sung in his bones, marrow oozing from the blows sustained. Complaints crept up at the tip of his tongue, but he...

The gentle ripple of arcane fervor sullied the air, mingled with the smoke and bile. The pound of cudgel on leather and chain; the dull shouts betwixt anger and pain. The murmur of stillness as the melee drew to an end. All familiar sensations to the old man, ones Aldebaran had thought himself...

The medic's breath came quick and ragged. Blood dabbed at his brow, stained the backs of his wrists. His chest fluttered and heaved, drew tremors to his knees. His voice was raw, his mouth dry. The stick was all that kept him on his feet. Aldebaran stiffened his jaw. There was work to be done...

Aldebaran flew across the floor. Needle on flesh. Metal on wood. Rattled, a clang. Inaudible in the melee. Breath left him, and he blinked again. The saccharine scent of blood filled his nose; broken cartilage, bones off the mend. Smokestained floors ripe with bile, brackish and dull. He pushed...

Aldebaran suffered a lapse in judgement. In the slow fade of aftereve he blinked. Chill in the air. Early evening. Smoke curling around freshly lit lamps. Fire in the hearth. Meat stewing in the cauldron. Threads of conversation, whispered, shouted, sung. Half-dozen bodies, patrons all. They...

Tinged with stars and the glamor of Lessat and Pneria's dance between clouds frought with summer angst, a pretty sky indeed graced Aldebaran's eve. Toes resting on the bank of a lake, alighted with gentle ripples as he kicked, Aldebaran lay propped up on an elbow. He was watching the clouds...

A hush fell over the camp. Quiet conversation stifled, cut abruptly to the cackling of embers, to a pitched, gurgling shriek shy of perception. "So soon," Aldebaran murmured. Their wayside fire sat well abreast of the bank, leaving several dozen paces between them and any open water. Further...

"So frightening," Albebaran murmured. An odd sort. Mischief and violence; chaos sat at the center of the fae, and Fray made no exception. Simple curiosity had perhaps tied their lots, and the promise of coin kept it whole. Rarely could he count the restful moments since taking the fae into...

Short in the tooth of night beneath the cackling of fires set at the side of the road sat Aldebaran. Starlight filtered the breath of the moons, light and pale above. Tails of smoke kissed the air between boughs of conversation; quiet voices all, with occasional laughter breaking the awkward...