“Laken! Laken! You won’t believe what’s happened to Mister Prost! He gained a class! And—and lost his levels!” “What? What? Stop shaking me, Durene! Put me down and tell me what’s happened.” Having a half-Troll lover is a wonderful thing in many ways. But when she’s excited, Durene is fully capable of lifting me up like a kitten. And I, like kittens, do not take well to being shaken. When I’m on the ground and sipping some tea, Durene spills the entire event to me, which everyone in the village has already heard of. Prost went to sleep late last night and heard himself get a new
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