Innverse Stats | 10.28 N

Name	Text
[Guardsman]	He remembered pushing a [Guardsman] down the stairs.
Salkis Blackwing	It was easy; the Drake was focused on Salkis as she ran, having skateboarded straight into a stall and demolished most of the woodwork. The owner of the stall was staring in dismay at necklaces—now pretty beads—snapped and rolling around. Splintered woodwork; a brightly painted metal skateboard lodged like a blade in the stall, five inches from her thighs.
Pallass	“Halt! Halt in the name of Pallass’ Watch!”
Salkis Blackwing	The Drake came running after Salkis, not armed, not waving a weapon because she was just one of the teenagers who loved rocketing down the staircases on the banned skateboards. He didn’t notice Numbtongue until the Hobgoblin stuck his hands out and pushed.
Numbtongue	The Drake came running after Salkis, not armed, not waving a weapon because she was just one of the teenagers who loved rocketing down the staircases on the banned skateboards. He didn’t notice Numbtongue until the Hobgoblin stuck his hands out and pushed.
[Guard]	It was a good shove; the [Guard] went over with a cry of dismay too loud. It wasn’t like he’d been stabbed or anything. He went tumbling down the stairs, and Numbtongue expected him to catch a railing or run into a pedestrian.
Numbtongue	It was a good shove; the [Guard] went over with a cry of dismay too loud. It wasn’t like he’d been stabbed or anything. He went tumbling down the stairs, and Numbtongue expected him to catch a railing or run into a pedestrian.
Numbtongue	He didn’t. The Drake bounced as he rolled, claw outflung to grab for purchase. Numbtongue saw, for a second, wide eyes and an open mouth; the Drake went down four more stairs, hit an edge, bounced, hit the stairwell, kept going—
Salkis Blackwing	It was a long way down. Salkis grabbed Numbtongue’s hands as he checked the hood around his face. The ring she’d given him worked; it had somehow fooled even Pallass’ security. As had the papers she’d forged for him. But right now, he felt like a Goblin.
Numbtongue	It was a long way down. Salkis grabbed Numbtongue’s hands as he checked the hood around his face. The ring she’d given him worked; it had somehow fooled even Pallass’ security. As had the papers she’d forged for him. But right now, he felt like a Goblin.
Pallass	It was a long way down. Salkis grabbed Numbtongue’s hands as he checked the hood around his face. The ring she’d given him worked; it had somehow fooled even Pallass’ security. As had the papers she’d forged for him. But right now, he felt like a Goblin.
[Guardsman]	Laughing, she pulled him away, and he ran as more shouts rose and people pointed fingers at him. He glanced back once. The [Guardsman] was lying at the bottom of the stairs, sprawled out comically. He wasn’t moving.
Numbtongue	Numbtongue kept staring at his hands all day afterwards. Salkis kept teasing him and laughing about the event with her friends, even when he pointed out she had nearly hurt that [Shopkeeper]. She hit him with a ‘so what?’, and he opened his mouth to respond and couldn’t bother arguing again. Then she took off her top while they were at a seedy club, and he forgot to continue arguing. One fight with a pair of day-drunks later, he’d forgotten the entire argument.
Salkis Blackwing	Numbtongue kept staring at his hands all day afterwards. Salkis kept teasing him and laughing about the event with her friends, even when he pointed out she had nearly hurt that [Shopkeeper]. She hit him with a ‘so what?’, and he opened his mouth to respond and couldn’t bother arguing again. Then she took off her top while they were at a seedy club, and he forgot to continue arguing. One fight with a pair of day-drunks later, he’d forgotten the entire argument.
[Shopkeeper]	Numbtongue kept staring at his hands all day afterwards. Salkis kept teasing him and laughing about the event with her friends, even when he pointed out she had nearly hurt that [Shopkeeper]. She hit him with a ‘so what?’, and he opened his mouth to respond and couldn’t bother arguing again. Then she took off her top while they were at a seedy club, and he forgot to continue arguing. One fight with a pair of day-drunks later, he’d forgotten the entire argument.
[Guard]	The first time he pushed a [Guard], he thought about it all day. The sixth time, he kicked a [Guard] into one of the Golems of Celum and ran like spit after Salkis, stopping only to catch his breath and undress her in an alleyway, high on the adrenaline. Heart beating in terror.
[Guard]	The first time he pushed a [Guard], he thought about it all day. The sixth time, he kicked a [Guard] into one of the Golems of Celum and ran like spit after Salkis, stopping only to catch his breath and undress her in an alleyway, high on the adrenaline. Heart beating in terror.
Celum	The first time he pushed a [Guard], he thought about it all day. The sixth time, he kicked a [Guard] into one of the Golems of Celum and ran like spit after Salkis, stopping only to catch his breath and undress her in an alleyway, high on the adrenaline. Heart beating in terror.
Salkis Blackwing	The first time he pushed a [Guard], he thought about it all day. The sixth time, he kicked a [Guard] into one of the Golems of Celum and ran like spit after Salkis, stopping only to catch his breath and undress her in an alleyway, high on the adrenaline. Heart beating in terror.
Erin Solstice	Erin Solstice.
Salkis Blackwing	“Whoa. Salkis. You’re crazy.”
Salkis Blackwing	That was what they always said when they saw his face, his real face for the first time. Salkis’ friends—or at least, the people she could actually tolerate—were a mix of highborn Drakes and middle-class; she actually knew very few [Thugs] and [Rogues], for all she claimed to be familiar with the underworld.
[Thug]	That was what they always said when they saw his face, his real face for the first time. Salkis’ friends—or at least, the people she could actually tolerate—were a mix of highborn Drakes and middle-class; she actually knew very few [Thugs] and [Rogues], for all she claimed to be familiar with the underworld.
[Rogue]	That was what they always said when they saw his face, his real face for the first time. Salkis’ friends—or at least, the people she could actually tolerate—were a mix of highborn Drakes and middle-class; she actually knew very few [Thugs] and [Rogues], for all she claimed to be familiar with the underworld.
Pallass	???? wore fur hide leggings, and his scales were a more somber blue, but he made up for it with dyed scales around his eyes that made him look like a racoon, but he claimed were supposed to be draconic, like the flames drawn on the sides of his mouth. He was bare-chested except for another hide jacket. He boasted he could use a bow, but since they were in Pallass, he only carried a single axe, which kept banging on chairs in the bar.

He remembered pushing a [Guardsman] down the stairs.

It was easy; the Drake was focused on Salkis as she ran, having skateboarded straight into a stall and demolished most of the woodwork. The owner of the stall was staring in dismay at necklaces—now pretty beads—snapped and rolling around. Splintered woodwork; a brightly painted metal skateboard lodged like a blade in the stall, five inches from her thighs.

Pallass

“Halt! Halt in the name of Pallass’ Watch!”

Salkis Blackwing

The Drake came running after Salkis, not armed, not waving a weapon because she was just one of the teenagers who loved rocketing down the staircases on the banned skateboards. He didn’t notice Numbtongue until the Hobgoblin stuck his hands out and pushed.

Numbtongue

The Drake came running after Salkis, not armed, not waving a weapon because she was just one of the teenagers who loved rocketing down the staircases on the banned skateboards. He didn’t notice Numbtongue until the Hobgoblin stuck his hands out and pushed.

[Guard]

It was a good shove; the [Guard] went over with a cry of dismay too loud. It wasn’t like he’d been stabbed or anything. He went tumbling down the stairs, and Numbtongue expected him to catch a railing or run into a pedestrian.

Numbtongue

It was a good shove; the [Guard] went over with a cry of dismay too loud. It wasn’t like he’d been stabbed or anything. He went tumbling down the stairs, and Numbtongue expected him to catch a railing or run into a pedestrian.

Numbtongue

He didn’t. The Drake bounced as he rolled, claw outflung to grab for purchase. Numbtongue saw, for a second, wide eyes and an open mouth; the Drake went down four more stairs, hit an edge, bounced, hit the stairwell, kept going—

Salkis Blackwing

It was a long way down. Salkis grabbed Numbtongue’s hands as he checked the hood around his face. The ring she’d given him worked; it had somehow fooled even Pallass’ security. As had the papers she’d forged for him. But right now, he felt like a Goblin.

Numbtongue

It was a long way down. Salkis grabbed Numbtongue’s hands as he checked the hood around his face. The ring she’d given him worked; it had somehow fooled even Pallass’ security. As had the papers she’d forged for him. But right now, he felt like a Goblin.

Pallass

It was a long way down. Salkis grabbed Numbtongue’s hands as he checked the hood around his face. The ring she’d given him worked; it had somehow fooled even Pallass’ security. As had the papers she’d forged for him. But right now, he felt like a Goblin.

[Guardsman]

Laughing, she pulled him away, and he ran as more shouts rose and people pointed fingers at him. He glanced back once. The [Guardsman] was lying at the bottom of the stairs, sprawled out comically. He wasn’t moving.

Numbtongue

Numbtongue kept staring at his hands all day afterwards. Salkis kept teasing him and laughing about the event with her friends, even when he pointed out she had nearly hurt that [Shopkeeper]. She hit him with a ‘so what?’, and he opened his mouth to respond and couldn’t bother arguing again. Then she took off her top while they were at a seedy club, and he forgot to continue arguing. One fight with a pair of day-drunks later, he’d forgotten the entire argument.

Salkis Blackwing

Numbtongue kept staring at his hands all day afterwards. Salkis kept teasing him and laughing about the event with her friends, even when he pointed out she had nearly hurt that [Shopkeeper]. She hit him with a ‘so what?’, and he opened his mouth to respond and couldn’t bother arguing again. Then she took off her top while they were at a seedy club, and he forgot to continue arguing. One fight with a pair of day-drunks later, he’d forgotten the entire argument.

[Shopkeeper]

Numbtongue kept staring at his hands all day afterwards. Salkis kept teasing him and laughing about the event with her friends, even when he pointed out she had nearly hurt that [Shopkeeper]. She hit him with a ‘so what?’, and he opened his mouth to respond and couldn’t bother arguing again. Then she took off her top while they were at a seedy club, and he forgot to continue arguing. One fight with a pair of day-drunks later, he’d forgotten the entire argument.

[Guard]

The first time he pushed a [Guard], he thought about it all day. The sixth time, he kicked a [Guard] into one of the Golems of Celum and ran like spit after Salkis, stopping only to catch his breath and undress her in an alleyway, high on the adrenaline. Heart beating in terror.

[Guard]

The first time he pushed a [Guard], he thought about it all day. The sixth time, he kicked a [Guard] into one of the Golems of Celum and ran like spit after Salkis, stopping only to catch his breath and undress her in an alleyway, high on the adrenaline. Heart beating in terror.

Celum

The first time he pushed a [Guard], he thought about it all day. The sixth time, he kicked a [Guard] into one of the Golems of Celum and ran like spit after Salkis, stopping only to catch his breath and undress her in an alleyway, high on the adrenaline. Heart beating in terror.

Salkis Blackwing

The first time he pushed a [Guard], he thought about it all day. The sixth time, he kicked a [Guard] into one of the Golems of Celum and ran like spit after Salkis, stopping only to catch his breath and undress her in an alleyway, high on the adrenaline. Heart beating in terror.

Erin Solstice

Erin Solstice.

Salkis Blackwing

“Whoa. Salkis. You’re crazy.”

Salkis Blackwing

That was what they always said when they saw his face, his real face for the first time. Salkis’ friends—or at least, the people she could actually tolerate—were a mix of highborn Drakes and middle-class; she actually knew very few [Thugs] and [Rogues], for all she claimed to be familiar with the underworld.

[Thug]

That was what they always said when they saw his face, his real face for the first time. Salkis’ friends—or at least, the people she could actually tolerate—were a mix of highborn Drakes and middle-class; she actually knew very few [Thugs] and [Rogues], for all she claimed to be familiar with the underworld.

[Rogue]

That was what they always said when they saw his face, his real face for the first time. Salkis’ friends—or at least, the people she could actually tolerate—were a mix of highborn Drakes and middle-class; she actually knew very few [Thugs] and [Rogues], for all she claimed to be familiar with the underworld.

Pallass

???? wore fur hide leggings, and his scales were a more somber blue, but he made up for it with dyed scales around his eyes that made him look like a racoon, but he claimed were supposed to be draconic, like the flames drawn on the sides of his mouth. He was bare-chested except for another hide jacket. He boasted he could use a bow, but since they were in Pallass, he only carried a single axe, which kept banging on chairs in the bar.

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