Moving Through the Bear Empire

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Deline slept more soundly than perhaps she should have, with a bounty hunter in bed next to her and, presumably, several more on her tail.

She woke in the early morning to see Carrone pacing back and forth in the small floor space of the inn.  He wasn’t talking, but he was gesturing as if he was having an argument, and every few steps he’d glare at the Bear-stone bracelet and the bloody welts the spell-rope had left.

“Time to get on the road.  We can get a bath at the next inn.”  She was pleased to see that he was startled and more pleased to see that he didn’t jump but just twitched a little.  “I’m going to leave you with your weapons, because your job now is to keep me alive.”

He worked his jaw.  “I’d rather stab you.”

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Moving Through the Bear Empire

First: Running in the Bear Empire
Previous: Caught, in the Bear Empire

🐻

Deline slept more soundly than perhaps she should have, with a bounty hunter in bed next to her and, presumably, several more on her tail.

She woke in the early morning to see Carrone pacing back and forth in the small floor space of the inn.  He wasn’t talking, but he was gesturing as if he was having an argument, and every few steps he’d glare at the Bear-stone bracelet and the bloody welts the spell-rope had left.

“Time to get on the road.  We can get a bath at the next inn.”  She was pleased to see that he was startled and more pleased to see that he didn’t jump but just twitched a little.  “I’m going to leave you with your weapons, because your job now is to keep me alive.”

He worked his jaw.  “I’d rather stab you.”

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Mirrored from Alder's Grove Fiction.

Addergoole: A Ghost Story - Chapter 61: Leofric

Chapter 61: Leofric
by Inspector Caracal

Wednesday, April 11, 2001

"So, I heard you got past Luke's guard."

"Yeah." Leofric jabbed a punch at Conrad, shifting to the side to avoid Conrad's counter as he missed. "We did."

"I'm impressed." Conrad smiled, then spun around in a kick - which Leofric realized was a feint just in time to dodge a tail grab. "How far did you get?"

Conrad wasn't the first to ask him about his recent escape attempt. Their escape attempt. If it weren't for that, Leofric would've written off the whole thing as a particularly depressing dream. As it was, all he could come up with were vague images of a dreary staircase and running over dead brown grass, then his thoughts slid away from it.

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