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Well if it isn't my favourite podlings, grab yourselves a bowl and a spot by the fire,

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it's dinner time!

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Now we had a little mishap last time where the cooking was concerned.

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It was because of me but I wouldn't say it was my fault.

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It's a very important difference wouldn't you say?

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If something's your fault I think it means it happened because you meant it to, you knew

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it would happen and then you did it.

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Is that fair?

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What happened was I was seeing if I could fix my claw but I didn't realise just how

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brim tip top full of magic I still was.

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So me tinkering with the magical mechanics brought on another wild magic surge, a bit

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like how playing with Perfefa brings on the sneezes.

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But this was a big explosion of chaotic elemental energy.

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Now I've always had them, these surges.

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Sometimes they come out of nowhere and sometimes I can feel them brewing but one thing they

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always are is unpredictable.

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This time the surge sent our campfire flames shooting high into the air like a big belch

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of fiery dragon's breath.

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It soon died down but not before burning the stew and I'm sorry to say tack a bit too.

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It was more cross than hurt thankfully and lucky for me when I said about how I couldn't

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help it it was alright about it.

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People aren't always that understanding let me tell ya.

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Still I'm going to be extra especially attentive to tack this evening.

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I mean I'd say it's the least I can D&D doo doo.

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Right it's dinner time.

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Yes.

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Buckle up.

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My stomach is scrambling.

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Right well buckle up because.

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Here.

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Here gives you a bowl.

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Thanks.

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This is really good for the constitution you know.

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Right.

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Don't put any in yet.

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Alright.

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I'm curious about what the side effects of such a meal might be.

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Just I can't help it.

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It's like the tinkerer in me.

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Just like let's make a little mental hypothesis.

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We'll see.

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Have you got a mental hypothesis?

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Yeah.

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Well do you want to put a coin on it who can withstand the...

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Alright.

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...Withstand the cook.

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So have I got any coins?

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Of course I do.

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I've got all these.

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I've got this massive bag of them.

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Well you can have one.

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What have I got?

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I'll have a little root around.

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I don't have any gold.

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You can put a cog on it if you want.

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I'll put two silver on it.

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Alright.

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I've put this clove of garlic on it.

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I've got a little bit of a

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I think this is going to be a difficult meal.

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Right.

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Right I think this is going to go down a treat -

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Slip down the hole.

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Can edit that if you want.

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And he gets a big ladle full and puts it into your bowl.

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Oh lovely.

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I've got the head as well.

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The fish head.

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Oh yeah make sure that he gets.

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Yes.

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That he gets rather blackened and shriveled and the eye sockets are sunken now.

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Yeah.

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No eyeball left.

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Yeah.

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Yeah I might have to do a little infusion.

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A digestive one to help things along.

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But it might not be the case that we need to help things along.

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It might be the opposite.

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That we need to help things kind of stay where they are.

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If you want to roll perception.

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OK perception is plus one.

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Three.

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OK so yeah.

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Nix tucks in.

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Alright I'm going for it.

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OK so if you now want to roll constitution.

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What you're not aware of is the fact that Tagk is not eating.

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He's just watching you with an inscrutable look.

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Sort of half expectant half fearful and another half of like slightly cheesed off.

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Right so what am I rolling?

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Constitution I think.

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Right.

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Or maybe it should be survival.

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We'll do constitution for this one.

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Alright plus three.

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Seven.

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The dice tell their story.

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As Tagk predicted it is not an easy meal.

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Yeah.

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The flavours are... bold.

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Unexpected.

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And there are also interesting textural elements including quite a lot of ash from when the

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flames died down and quite a lot of the interior surfaces of the pan itself were all making

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its way in.

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Yeah but you know you're troughing in.

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Yeah oh oh OK.

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Yeah yeah yeah alright.

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How's that then?

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Is that good?

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Oh wait.

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Would you like some more?

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Have some more!

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That, wait... crunch.

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Oh, got past that bit.

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Still going.

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I don't think this is wise at all.

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I would expect you to get the better bit of the portion.

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It would be fair.

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I'm not sure I'm very hungry.

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Nix is just going to lay back on the log behind him and just like I think he's sweating a

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little bit.

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Nix went and got some mushrooms didn't he?

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Yeah Nix was doing the rounds and he might have found some berries and some mushrooms.

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So there's some nice sides.

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Yeah,  I think... here's two silver.

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Thank you very much.

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And drops them into his little pouch.

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That's another two to go when we find my stash.

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There you go.

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The stars are coming out look.

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Oh yeah.

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I think Tagk is going to start digging out a little depression in the ground.

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He likes to have a little bit of a hollow to sleep in.

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I can't say I feel mightily full so I'll have to make tonight comfortable in a different

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way.

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Yeah.

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Look I can see very clearly cooking is like you know it's something that you've got like

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skills in.

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I respect that.

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And I am like I am sorry that I absolutely stuffed that up.

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Because I mean if I was like doing me claw and you just like came over and kicked like

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a big mound of dust while I was like tinkering away.

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You know I would I'd be pretty miffed.

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So I think it's important you know I feel like I've got a bit of goblin honour you know

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I'm not, I'm not above it.

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Tagk reaches into his seasoning pouch and he passes you a little tuft of of a green

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plant and he you know gives you a little smile.

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Have a chew on that.

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It's it's like a herb a little bit like a parsley type thing.

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It'll help it'll help it go down.

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I'm not really cross.

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Yeah no I like cooking.

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I wouldn't say I love it.

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I just think it's important.

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Thank you for the green fluff.

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I like throws it up into the air like a piece of popcorn.

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Don't swallow it just keep chewing it.

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Suck all the juice out.

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That'll help.

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Oh that's good.

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Yeah you feel some of the the uncertainty within your system your digestive system just

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ease a little bit.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Nix was on like an amber alert to rush off into the woods.

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But I think he's sort of he's settled a bit more.

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You know there is the what would you call it like the culinary issues of the meal but

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I think more than that it's the fact that the whole pot was surrounded by this surge

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of magical energy so it's kind of infused with with magic as well you see.

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So that is an interesting thing for your stomach to be dealing with as a meal.

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Yeah.

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Maybe that's something to work on in the future.

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Sort of like a magical infusion.

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Oh I never thought of that.

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He's going to get out his little notebook.

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That's really interesting.

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So I'm finding that like within my tummy it's unsettling for sure.

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Oh yeah.

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It's got some sort of magical properties.

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So maybe you know at some point we could sort of do a bit of sharing or I could lend a bit

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of my magic to your cooking and we could make something special up.

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Oh that's interesting.

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We could continue to look for ways to combine the effects of the ingredients with the magic.

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Nice.

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Yeah.

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Just let me know if one of those things is going to happen if you can.

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Just give me a heads up.

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I will try my utmost.

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And I'll get my chainmail sweater on.

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I think Nix is getting nice and comfy by the fire.

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He's got like a few nice mossy logs to create a bit of a chair for himself.

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And he's got his long coat.

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Oh yeah.

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It's sort of patchwork of different fabrics and he's probably used it for many years just

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to like sleep under as a blanket.

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But now he's wearing it and it's you know it's been burnt at the edges and it's been

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singed and it's been patched up.

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Yeah yeah he likes it.

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It brings him comfort.

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Yeah.

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I'm picturing this human proportioned coat that comes down all the way to trail

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on the ground because of its length.

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Yeah yeah absolutely.

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So really.

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You know it's a bit of a like a train.

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Yeah.

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Comes behind him and that's like worn down.

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It's got rips and tears and he's just had like other pockets sort of sewn in all around

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like on the inside to keep various bits and bobs and his tinkering tools.

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So yeah he's just sort of gathering that up around him.

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Getting comfy now.

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Oh yeah it's been a long day.

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Like you know in the battle back there and I know it's been a slippy day for you.

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But yeah your sword skills!.

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I was very impressed!

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It was very poetic I guess.

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But yeah that's something like you were dancing and you were sort of like... a beautiful balance.

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Quite a bit of screaming.

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Charging.

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Running backwards and forwards.

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Was that not part of the like tactics?

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Oh my tactics.

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Tagk tactics.

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Yes absolutely.

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Running away is part of what we're trained in when we're doing our military service.

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Yeah yeah it's like zoom in and attack and like feign
,.. and sort of like faint -

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- Just literally faint.

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That's a very useful skill.

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You just faint when you wake up.

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Everything's moved on if you're lucky.

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Yeah well you see I'll let you into a secret.

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It was one of my better classes in kobald school because we all have to go into like

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military service for a couple of years when we're growing up.

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Blimey.

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I know it's part of the deal being a kobald back in... where do I live?

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You live...

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It's Ka'drik.

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Ka'drik.

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That's the island.

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Just one moment.

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Meraki?

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No.

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We're on Meraki

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That's not the actual...

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Is it not?

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Da'dikka

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Don't laugh.

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That's where I live.

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No I'm not laughing.

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What's wrong?

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It was the speed at which you delivered the line.

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It made me chuckle.

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Well because I come from Da'dikka and yeah part of the arrangement we have with Bathanax

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is that all koblds have to do military service so that should any adventurers come to steal

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Bathanax's stash that's when we have to step in to be the first line of defence.

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So yeah so I had to do... what do you call it?

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What do you call it when you... swordsmanship.

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So I wasn't so good on the theory.

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So the thing is I'm just not interested.

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I'm not interested.

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I don't really want to go and be in a battle or all the rest of it but I did really enjoy

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the classes because we had these straw adventurers.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We'd have one that looked like a big barbarian and he was stuffed full of flour.

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He was like a big lump.

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Big bruiser.

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Yeah and we'd put him on a little rolly thing so he could move around and we'd have to practice

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our moves and then we'd have the fighters who were stuffed with straw and we had these

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little smaller ones as well to be other kobalds and we'd have to you know practice our moves

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and we'd have this one where you'd attack it and it would swing round and its other

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arm would swing round and bring this bag of flour at your head and you had to get out

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the way.

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Oh right.

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So I really liked it.

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But see the good thing was that it was like we were just going for these dummies, these

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mannequins and it's like I had to kind of like not do too well because if I did too

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well then they'd go and they'd put me in the militia when it's time for me to get my job.

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They'd put me in the militia and I don't really want to do that so I just tried to keep my

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head down really.

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Yeah so you had to like put your talents under a thorny bush and hide them away a bit.

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Yeah I got brought out to the front of the class at one point to demonstrate how to do

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something and it was that moment when I realised I needed to do something different because

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a teacher said carry on this way young kobald you'll be a captain one day and I was like

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oh.

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So from that point on I was really careful to do well enough not to get detention but

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not to do so well that they'd put me in the militia.

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Yeah it is.

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So.

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Yeah it's a tricky line.

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I find your culture you know it's very fascinating.

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It's so different from the swamp you know.

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I'm not good at like so many things but there's particular things which and this goes with

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like a lot of goblins you know we sort of what we're passionate about we're allowed

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to pursue so we're not forced into any like regimented yeah yeah it doesn't it doesn't

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work for our culture at all.

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Well we're allowed to pursue it just as long as we've done everything else we're supposed

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to do.

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Mind you there is always something else that we're supposed to be doing so it is hard to

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do the thing that we really want to do.

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Well what is it what is it that you enjoy?

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What makes your scales tingle?

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As you say this he suddenly kind of... it brings him up short and he and he falls silent and

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he's in his brow furrows and he's like well no one's ever asked me that before.

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Well there's lots of things I'm sure there's...

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Anyway how's your stomach? And you can tell that he's like he's gone as far as ... it's brought

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him up short yeah yeah.

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I think Nix is curious and as much as his mind is sort of racing to push

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a little bit further I think he's going to recognise that it's been a day so

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he's just he's going to leave it there and he's just going to wrap himself up a little

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bit more.

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'It's beautiful up there check out those stars!' - letting Tagk off the hook.

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Yeah Tagk's okay, he just goes very thoughtful and the opportunity to just snuggle up in

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his hole that he's made for himself and look up at the stars is actually really welcoming

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you see his eyes are starting to droop he's tired.

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Let's check in with how Nix is doing now.

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What was the herb from Tagk? Thhe sort of the mossy...

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Yeah it was parsage.

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Parsage, nice. I think now that he's chewed that and I think he's settled. His mind's still

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racing so he's just he's just sort of like mulling over the day he's just enjoying like

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the crackle of the fire and he's also he's like looking at the the small collection of

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elemental rocks and he's thought about trying to communicate with them but he's not much.

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I think you noticed that as Tagk gets more and more relaxed the boulder and the five

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little stones just edge closer and closer because they're gauging that they can you

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know he's not going to knock them or shoo them away and as Tagk's eyes fully

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close the boulder and the little stones just insinuate themselves under Tagk's ankle and

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all the little pebbles arrange themselves on top.

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That's awesome. Nix just has a little smile to himself and he's just gonna look into the

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fire and and think about the day.

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All right so you're gazing into the fire and you're watching all the sparks starting

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and it crackles away and the sparks go up into the air tumbling and spinning higher

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these little orange flecks of light that draw your eyes up to the stars and the stars are

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shining with this colder bluer light and it's very very beautiful it's a mostly clear night

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and you can see all the stars scattered through the gap in the canopy where your clearing is

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and the more you look at the stars the more stars you see it's like as your eyes adjust

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and the more you watch the stars unhook from the sky and having done so start to move.

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You have a sense that this is in part due to the wild magic surge and also the magically

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infused stew something's starting to happen something that you recognize and you think

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oh it's happening again.

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All right what's going on here then like everything else is just like background now just fades

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away.

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You're starting to become weightless up and up you go leaving your campfire with Tagk and

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the boulder and the little stones they're far below you can see them getting smaller

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and smaller until it's just this little orange speck and the higher you go the more you start

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to remember you're heading to the Above and Beyond and this is a magical place that you

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visited many times before so the Above and Beyond is many things and you could describe

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it as a dream state where different beings can share each other's dreams.

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Everything flips and up and down seem to have changed places you settle next to this other

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campfire and you see next to you is the boulder.

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It's kind of outlined in a white blue moonlight it's definitely the boulder and you know if

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you reached out to touch it it would feel it would feel solid.

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If you think the boulder might be dreaming or maybe it's you that's dreaming and the

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dream seems to be to do with being very low to the ground with something solid and heavy

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above you.

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It doesn't weigh you down it's more that it keeps you close and you have a sense of being

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one of quite a few all of you being kept close a whole of many parts.

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You feel always ready to hold things strongly up and you're always ready to move, this is

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a big one, in fact if anything the only thing that stops you moving is this whole of many

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parts above and next to you.

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It holds you in place but not as a prisoner but all the same you do have a sensation of

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frustration and impatience you just want to move and get out there and then it's like

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you know when you're having a dream and it sort of slides to another event or another

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place and you think you're remembering a particular day and it's the day when it all changed: Some

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rope drops around you and pulls tight, it's really confusing you can't move as normal

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and you feel off balance and then you connect that sensation to when you saw kobolds hurling

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rope lassoes at the stone elemental.

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I think that memory completely fits.

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I think Nix is fighting, he's feeling trapped.

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Yeah yeah and then comes the strangest sensation of all: Something gets severed and there's

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nothing to hold you back anymore you feel lighter and full of energy there's nothing

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to stop you doing one of the things you were meant to do which is keep moving and you can

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go so much faster now and off you go!

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He's just racing!

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You do exactly what it is you want.

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Nothing's gonna stop me!

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Yeah you feel like you can feel yourself tumbling across the land but it's not just you there's

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five little ones are coming too. They follow behind all higgledy piggledy trying to keep

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up and you love it, it's like a game of tag and it goes on.

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Come on you lot.

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They all tumble after and this chase this game of tag goes on for a long long time at

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least days and days probably weeks and maybe even months but there's a slow and creeping

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change...

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You start to realize that as much as you started off loving all this movement you can't actually

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seem to stop now because the whole of many parts isn't there to hold you and for the

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first time you remember how nice it was to be held and part of something bigger and the

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five little ones are following you and they're looking to you to show them the way and that

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was never your job before and you don't know how to do it.

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For the first time you roll to a stop and in your throat, Nix, you gulp.

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Give us a gulp.