I stumbled into Valrym's tavern with all the subtlety I normally have. Both Devuin and Valrym turned to look at me like the unwelcome visitor I completely was.
"I left something behind."
"No you didn't." Valrym of course knew I didn't leave anything behind, but he didn't know that I knew he knew I didn't leave anything behind. You get all that?
"Just keep talking I'll find my whatever thingy I'm looking for, I'm sure its around here somewhere." In retrospect I should have probably come up with a better idea for a lost object than a whatever thingy. Devuin and Valrym did not keep talking, I looked around the bar stools for a bit and then having found the nothing I'd left behind had to leave. To my surprise Hanlon was waiting for me outside.
"So who are they going to kill?"
"I have no idea they wouldn't talk when I was around."
"So you just walked in there pretended to be looking for something and surpringly two gods, well I should say one god one avatar of a god, didn't just keep talking about murdering another god." Hanlon seemed chipper even with the failure, he was always weird like that.
"Well when you put it that way you make me think I didn't think this plan all the way through." Which I hadn't. Honestly I didn't want to get involved in some kind of god war, because well I'm not an idiot. Hanlon looked at me deep in my eyes, I never noticed how black his eyes were and then I felt like I went to sleep only to be woken up on my feet.
"Thankfully they were talking while you were asleep and now I know the dumb one, wants the short one, to try and kill the Fire God."
"How did you?"
"Better for you not to know."
"Do you think they can pull it off?" Hanlon scoffed at the suggestion and then started laughing.
"The Fire God? She who is the god of war, vengeance, and combat with thousands of martial followers and a world continually in strife against an avatar of a dead god and a god who remains because people still curse the wind? Oh yeah they stand a great chance, come Trezlan we will let these morons be.
"But you just said?"
"I wanted to know what they were up to, now that I know I can safely ignore it and we can do what I came here for anyway."
"And what if I don't want to do it?"
"You always ask questions you already know the answer to." I did know the answer it didn't matter what I wanted, because what I wanted never mattered! I tell you, you'd think I'd learn my participation in my own life is at best minimal.
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