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'Adventure' is a word people use to put a shine on lack of preparation and surviving through dumb luck. We're professionals and that means we leave the adventure out of it.”
If you aren't where you're supposed to be then the things that are supposed to happen to you are going to happen to someone else, he'd always said. In Durham's experience, many of those things were of the sort that he'd have rather happened to someone else but he was still in the habit of punctuality.
Dwarves are quite good at mimicking human accents and, when they learn a new word, learn the accent of whomever taught them the word at the same time. These particular dwarves have been all over the world and learned to speak in a hundred different cities. They consider all pronunciations equally valid and switch between them at whim.”
As with any experiment, ideally one learns something from the results. The success of Durham’s conversational study had taught him two things. First was that he led a spectacularly uninteresting life. Second was that he was a spectacularly uninteresting person.
If ye don't mind me sayin' so lad, you could use a bit more character. Yer a bit drab amidst this wondrous company o' fine dwarves. No better place to start lookin' than up a chicken's arse.”
Durham opened his eyes to complete darkness. His brain reminded him that he was laying bare-assed on a couch next to a shattered skeleton in a parlor deep beneath a necromancer’s crypt. His adventuring legacy, so far, seemed to frequently involve him being without pants.
