The Ballad of Sprikit The Bard And Company
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Started reading August 27, 2024
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one of the soldier’s legs.
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soldiers'
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“It is over, Bard!” Captain Phara commanded.
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That isn't a command.
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He was only one, little Bard.
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Definitely no comma.
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“Listen big fella,”
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A man was standing in the centre of the crowd, sitting on a little stool,
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Standing or sitting?
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meaty, grey arms
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A low rumbling, moan came out of the thing.
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A little more forceful Sprikit,
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he instantly wretched up the stuff,
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retched
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for some foolish, reason believe you…
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As for you Tallew,
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mine and, by extension, your innocence.”
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my and,
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brought tears to some peoples’ eyes.
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people's
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“Ah gerolos,
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“Excellent performance porcito,”
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Well Sprikit,
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Sir Grent of Lurton may have slain that Bull-Eagle and Joon Breen may have
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might
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They may as well have been on fire!
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might
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after which prompted a reasonable reaction.
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stripping bits of bark and smaller branches off the lower one, until he had a makeshift pile of lumber.
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Lumber is specifically sawn timber.
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land relinquished from the control of both the Galzarian Empire and Kingdom of Varrak as part of a peace treaty.
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Disbelieve
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“Listen Torg;
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“Well I got to thinking
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Well,
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“Yeah you’re right
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Yeah,
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“Well as a pure spectator,”
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[So many of these I eventually gave up marking them; the "well" functions as an introductory word which needs to be set off with a comma.]
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“Stop bickering you two!”
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“Well she’s alive,
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She started to rise, her footing seemed surer.
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Comma splice
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Right young Torg,
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I’m eighty four
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eighty-four
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establishments in utter disrepute.
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disrepair
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“Well here we are!”
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“Well we had better be–”
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“Oh Eamonn!
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it’s alright pet.
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Eamonn scratched at his beard before rubbing it on front of his grey overalls.
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on the front [and "it" is clearly not his beard, as it should be grammatically, but his hand, which has not been explicitly mentioned in the sentence]
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as she lay down cups of steaming tea
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laid
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“Yes we’ve seen all that
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Yes,
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“Well we’ve always had a great interest
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“Oh well all sorts,
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Isn’t that right Eamonn?”
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The Bard himself had only drank
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drunk
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Fingering one of the bracelets on her wrist, the Bard watched as she took it off.
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Dangling modifier; it wasn't the Bard, but "she," who fingered the bracelet.
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She turned the key into the lock
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in
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The sight of his brother’s faces
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brothers'
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These were the papers Eamonn was shuffling with earlier.
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had been
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“Yes, yes pet!”
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He may have been old,
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might
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But there’s hear nor hide of a mention of you two.
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The expression is usually "neither hide nor hair".
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she could easily snap out of her binds.
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bonds OR bindings