From: ...sage@basement.library.generica.nexus
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: ...sage (inn) buys Luke a drink
Date: 26 Jan 1993 02:17:29 GMT
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..sage relaxed with his drink and took in the surroundings of the
Inn. Wood panelled floor with the occasional stone insets to help
give support to some of the Inn's larger customers.
Smokey rafters that would never be clean again, and the ever-
present Littlefair, wiping a glass behind the bar as he exchanged
pleasantries with another patron.

The Rabble had quietened down to a low buzz as they made bets on
anything and everything they could see, smell or spit on, and the
shadowy corners seemed to somehow be less menacing than usual.

The number of non-descript people with something non-non-descript
about them still seemed to be high, but that was to be expected.
An Inn like Littlefair's seemed to attract more than its fair
share of oddities. 

..sage grinned. As a blind albino drow, who was also a librarian
and an archmage, he was hardly a non-oddity himself.

His mind wandered to Father Lucas again, the man who had appeared
from the bulk of Great Mother, and who he had taken away from the
unholy grotto before it collapsed on top of them.

He could not delve past the apathy that encompassed this man's mind.
It was all-consuming and ...sage would give up probing each time, 
before he realized it, despite his determined resolve.

Catching Littlefair's eye, he motioned the barkeep over and ordered
a 'Melancholy Orange' for the morose priest, then watched with 
blank eyes as a serving girl dropped off the drink at Luke's table.



						 	...sage

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