
＄03-00-09-16-3-0



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＠Devil Caren
It seems these would-be contenders have what it takes to compete! As the chocolate faerie, I declare this Mab Match is now officially underway!
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＠Devil Caren
The taste testing shall take place at high noon tomorrow! Contestants will have until then to prepare their chocolate!
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＠Devil Caren
Both contestants must use the cooking facilities provided in this cathedral, and may employ up to one faerie assistant.
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＠Devil Caren
Any questions?
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＠Cnoc na Riabh
None here. I can't wait to get started, since I already have someone in mind to give this chocolate to.
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＠Cnoc na Riabh
I'm going to make the best chocolate anyone will taste all year; it will be better than anything Gloucester has to offer.
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＠Altria
Hang on. Are we really doing this!? What in the world does making chocolate have to do with choosing a leader!?
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＠Devil Caren
Everything! This has been the law of the land in Edinburgh for the past sixteen hundred years!
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＠Devil Caren
All right, Lady Altria, you take the star kitchen.[sr]Lady Cnoc na Riabh, you take the moon kitchen.
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＠Devil Caren
I will prepare rooms for the night for the rest of Lady Altria's companions.
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＠Devil Caren
I'm afraid you won't be able to talk to the choc-testants while they're in the kitchen, but you're free to talk outside the kitchens if you like.
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＠Devil Caren
All right, enjoy your chocolate-making. And remember, fortune smiles on those with truly strong hearts♡
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＠Mash
Well, at least it was nice of them[sr]to reserve rooms for us, but...
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？1：Hey, Mash? Um, once we're done talking here...
？2： Mash? I wish I could go help Altria myself, but...

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＠Mash
I know. You'd like me to assist Altria[sr]in her chocolate duel, right?
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＠Mash
I may be a Demi-Servant, but the faeries seem to treat me as one of them, so that shouldn't be a problem.
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＠Da Vinci
That would be great. Thanks for doing this.
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＠Da Vinci
But before you get started, I'd like to go over everything we've learned so far, just us Chaldeans.
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＠Da Vinci
You already told us about what happened after you were sent to the past in Norwich, of course...
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＠Da Vinci
But I still want to hear what happened to you before then, and fill you in on what's happened with us.
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＠Da Vinci
And this should be a good place for a private chat, especially since Muramasa and Grímr are in another room.
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＠Mash
...So that's what happened to you after we got separated. Salisbury, Gloucester, Londinium...
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＠Mash
Manchester,...and the Lake District. Plus everything with the Round Table Army, of course.
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＠Mash
I never would have guessed that Pepe was here too, and as a count of all things! I'm sure it fits him like a glove!
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＠Da Vinci
Unfortunately, Pepe's not the only Crypter here.[sr]We saw Beryl in Camelot, too.
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＠Da Vinci
Though it sounds like you were actually[sr]the first to run into him here.
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＠Mash
...That's right. I saw him in Sheffield.[sr]That was when[line 2]
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＠Da Vinci
[line 2]you lost the Black Barrel, huh?[sr]Beryl probably took it for himself.
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＠Mash
I'm so sorry.
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＠Mash
All the time and effort you and Sion spent on it,[sr]and I just left it there...
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？1：Don't worry. We can always get it back.
？2：It's okay. Trump cards pop up when they need to, anyway.

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＠Mash
...Again, I'm so sorry. If only I'd[line 2]
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＠Da Vinci
Hey, you still didn't have your memories back after the Nameless Woods ordeal, right? Then there's no way you could have known.
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＠Da Vinci
Don't worry about the Black Barrel. We can always track it down. The important thing is that you're still alive.
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＠Da Vinci
And fortunately, it looks like we won't[sr]even need it for this mission, anyway.
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＠Mash
Really? I mean, if we don't have[sr]to use it, that's great, but[line 2]
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？1：Machines don't work well here, anyway. For that matter[line 2]
？2：The Child of Prophecy's no slouch herself. Not to mention[line 2]

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＠Da Vinci
Yup. We have something even better[sr]than the Black Barrel now.
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＠Mash
Hm? What do you mean? Are Director Goredolf and Holmes coming to help us in the Shadow Border?
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＠Da Vinci
No, no, nothing like that. I'm talking about YOU, Mash.
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＠Da Vinci
The Ortinax may not be working right now, but your Spirit Origin is putting out more power now than it ever has.
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＠Da Vinci
It's probably the Tam Lin rules at work. Barghest and the others were Gifted the Round Table Knights' names...
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＠Da Vinci
...but you're Gifted with Tam Lin Galahad's name on top of already borrowing his power, giving you effectively a double-Galahad bonus.
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＠Da Vinci
No wonder you were able to go toe-to-toe with Lancelot.
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＠Da Vinci
You're basically a High Servant now[line 2]a peerless warrior even among peerless warriors.
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＠Da Vinci
You can feel that too, as her Master,[sr]right, [%1]?
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？1：Yup. You're Super Mash now.
？2：Yup. My kouhai's a sight to behold.

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＠Mash
...!
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＠Mash
I-I see. Th-th-then, I'll do my very super best to help!
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＠Senji Muramasa & Grímr
Hey, we're gonna go look around the city.[sr]You guys wanna come?
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？1：Of course.
？2：Time for some recon, huh?

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＠Grímr the Sage
Altria might be busy in the kitchen right now,[sr]but we've got nothing but time on our hands...
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＠Grímr the Sage
So we gotta do SOMETHING to make ourselves useful.[sr]How about you, Da Vinci?
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＠Da Vinci
I'm going to sit this one out.[sr]Besides, I still have to write my report.
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＠Senji Muramasa
Say, where's Mash? Isn't she with you?
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？1：She went to assist Altria.
？2：Altria needed Mash's amazing chocolate-making skills more than we did.

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＠Senji Muramasa
Gotcha. Sounds like she's got a real shot at winning, then. If it came to it, I was thinking I'd make the chocolate myself, but maybe now I won't need to.
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＠Grímr the Sage
You're way too easy on Altria, you know that? Is that any way for one of the Foreign God's Disciples to conduct himself?
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＠Senji Muramasa
Shut up, you blue-haired dillweed. I still owe her my life for saving me from that auction.
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＠Senji Muramasa
Besides, I oughta be asking you why you were so easy on Cnoc na Riabh. She look like a friend of yours or something?
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＠Grímr the Sage
Actually, yes. But even though she's the spitting image of her, they're completely different people.
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＠Grímr the Sage
Cnoc na Riabh's been living her own life free of influence from any human history connections.
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＠Grímr the Sage
I had to go after my destiny, but she took hers by the horns and made it submit to her.
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＠Grímr the Sage
I swear, I've never seen such a free-spirited woman anywhere. You can't help but smile, right?
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＠Senji Muramasa
You don't say. So the last queen, Mab, disappeared in the Era of the High Queen 400, and Cnoc na Riabh was born a hundred years ago, in the Era of the High Queen 1900.
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＠Senji Muramasa
So this city went without a leader for about fifteen hundred years, huh?
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＠Grímr the Sage
That's right. I thought it was strange when I first heard about this, too...
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＠Grímr the Sage
But apparently, the northern faeries continued to live by the past queen's teachings even after she was gone.
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＠Grímr the Sage
They say she told them that a new King Clan faerie would be born again one day, and that they were to obey Morgan until that day came.
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？1：So what happened to the northern faeries after Cnoc na Riabh was born?

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＠Grímr the Sage
They went right back to their old ways, of course. Things have been tense between them and Morgan ever since.
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＠Grímr the Sage
For a hundred years, Cnoc na Riabh's been teaching the northern faeries order and discipline, gradually turning them into a real army.
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＠Grímr the Sage
When Ainsel predicted the Child of Prophecy, Morgan wasn't the only one who was worried.
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＠Grímr the Sage
I bet Cnoc na Riabh went ballistic upon hearing the news too, at least on the inside. She was probably all:
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＠Grímr the Sage
“I've been working towards this for a hundred years now! No way am I letting some Podunk backwater faerie beat me to the punch!”
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＠Senji Muramasa
Ahh, now I gotcha. So that's why Altria and the queenie hit it off so well.
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？1：“Hit it off”? Are you sure you don't mean “bicker”?
？2：Is this one of those “you only hurt the ones you love” things?

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＠Senji Muramasa
I mean they both know what it's like to bear the weight of crushing responsibility.
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＠Senji Muramasa
They probably never had anyone else they could curse out without it becoming a big to-do before they met each other. They might be in completely different circumstances, but they're still equals where it counts.
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＠Senji Muramasa
The way I see it, things are gonna work out no matter who wins this contest, so let's just let 'em have their fun!
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＠Senji Muramasa
All that aside, you sure know a whole lot of things, don't you, Grímr?
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＠Senji Muramasa
Anything else you know but haven't shared? Like, say, why this place is called the queen's city?
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＠Grímr the Sage
I don't know where the name comes from.[sr]I already told you everything I could.
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＠Grímr the Sage
...Huh, we're a long ways from[sr]the main road now, aren't we?
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＠Habetrot
Oh, hey guys. You out for a walk, too? I don't blame you. Not much to do up in our hotel room, after all.
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＠Redra Bit
We thought we would take advantage of the opportunity to do some sightseeing too, especially since we almost never come this far north.
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？1：Is this some kind of back alley?

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＠Habetrot
Back alley? Um... I think it's pretty obvious if you just look around, [%1].
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？2：Did you guys see anything unusual?

＠Redra Bit
...No. No, not really...
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＠Senji Muramasa
What's with you, Redra? Not like you to be so hedgy.
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＠Redra Bit
Well... I'm hoping this is just my imagination, but...
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＠Redra Bit
...there seem to be a lot more Wind clan faeries here than I was expecting.
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＠Edinburgh Resident
Oh, are you guys new here?[sr]Welcome to the Edinburgh development ward.
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＠Edinburgh Resident
This is where all the refugees who haven't been able to share in Lady Cnoc na Riabh's power live.
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＠Edinburgh Resident
Still, we're all treated as full citizens. We all have jobs and roofs over our heads, even if they are just tents.
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＠Edinburgh Resident
In the meantime, I'm sure Lady Cnoc na Riabh will make you guys into King Clan faeries once the war against Queen Morgan is over.
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＠Edinburgh Resident
So go ahead and put your tent up wherever you like.
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＠Edinburgh Resident
If you're lucky, you might even get a job in the medical ward. Don't worry, mors disease isn't nearly as bad as it's made out to be.
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？1：We can be made into King Clan faeries?
？2：What's mors disease?

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＠Edinburgh Resident
Aah! I-is that a human!?
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＠Edinburgh Resident
What in the world were you all thinking, bringing a human to Edinburgh of all places!?
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＠Edinburgh Resident
If Cnoc na Riabh finds out about this, you'll all be[line 2]
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＠Edinburgh Resident
...Wait. Don't tell me...[sr]Are you guys also...?
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＠Redra Bit
No. We're travelers. We're just passing through.
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＠Redra Bit
We'll be leaving tomorrow, so please,[sr]don't worry about us.
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＠Edinburgh Resident
I-I see. Guess I'd better get going, then.[sr]Sorry for taking up your time...
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＠Senji Muramasa
...No way that guy actually lives around here.[sr]There's something way too shifty about him.
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＠Senji Muramasa
He's probably one of Morgan's spies. Lotta room for rats like that in a city this big.
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？1：Should we tell Cnoc na Riabh about him?

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＠Grímr the Sage
Don't bother. We can't snitch on a resident[sr]on Muramasa's hunch alone.
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＠Grímr the Sage
...For that matter, have you noticed how all the faeries in this ward have scars on their shins?
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＠Grímr the Sage
I'm guessing they're either refugees from the south, faeries who've lost their purpose, or[line 2]
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＠Redra Bit
Or fugitives who fled the south.
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＠Senji Muramasa
So this town's full of criminals, huh? I guess Cnoc na Riabh's either really magnanimous, or she's really big on cheap labor.
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＠Redra Bit
Maybe it's both? Every faerie becomes land when they die, regardless of what they were like in life.
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＠Redra Bit
So having more faeries live here means that her territory will eventually expand.
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＠Redra Bit
That must be how Edinburgh grew to this scale in the sixteen hundred years since Queen Mab disappeared.
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＠Habetrot
Hm... Then something doesn't add up.
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＠Habetrot
If faeries have been living up here for over sixteen hundred years in the Era of the High Queen...
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＠Habetrot
...then why are the edges of Britain unchanged since the Fae Era?
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＠Habetrot
Could this city be...?[sr]I wouldn't put it past Mab to do that...
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＠Habetrot
Turning a desolate wasteland into a prosperous city in a single generation... Her next generation being born a hundred years ago...
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＠Habetrot
I knew it. Now it's all making sense...[sr]No wonder Morgan's left her alone all this time.
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＠Habetrot
If she plays her cards wrong, Cnoc na Riabh could end up becoming a calamity herself...
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？1：Habetrot?

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＠Habetrot
...Nah, I'm probably just overthinking it.[sr]There's no way that could actually be the case.
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＠Habetrot
Anyway, let's head back, Redra Bit. It's all wasteland up ahead, so there's nothing more to see here, anyway.
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＠Redra Bit
I see. And I take it you're going to ride on my back again?
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＠Redra Bit
I was the one who said it wouldn't be any trouble... But that was before I knew you were much, much heavier than you look.
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＠Habetrot
Meowhaha, that's 'cause I got substance where it counts!
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＠Habetrot
Just you wait! Once I eventually grow up, old Habbycat's gonna have the most banging bod you've ever seen!
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＠Redra Bit
Aren't you the type of faerie who never gets any older?
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＠Habetrot
Anyway, I wouldn't wander around here too much if I were you either, [%1].
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＠Habetrot
I don't know why Cnoc na Riabh let you off the hook, but if you run into any northern faeries with long memories, they won't think twice about ganging up on you!
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＠Grímr the Sage
Oh, yeah. I guess you'd know more about that than I do, since I only have the first Grímr's notes to go off of.
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＠Grímr the Sage
Tell us something, Habetrot.
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＠Grímr the Sage
The northern faeries used to be the first group of faeries who coexisted with humans, right? Like in the War of Summer and such.
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＠Grímr the Sage
So why does Cnoc na Riabh hate them so much now?
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？1：I was wondering about that, too.
？2：Yeah, do you know what's up with that, Habetrot?

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＠Habetrot
What, you mean you don't even know that?[sr]All right, I guess I can tell you!
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＠Habetrot
It all goes back to what happened about four thousand years ago, during the War of Summer in Fae Era 2000.
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＠Habetrot
Queen Mab invaded Britain from the western island and drove the other clans to the brink of extinction.
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＠Habetrot
Word has it that Aesc then stepped in, convinced Mab to back down and reconcile with the clans, and had her and her people officially recognized as the King Clan...
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＠Habetrot
But that's not exactly the whole truth.
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＠Habetrot
For one thing, Mab would never agree to reconcile with the clans when her victory was already assured.
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＠Grímr the Sage
...Yeah, good point. I always thought that story spun things a little too neatly for the other clans... Wait. Don't tell me.
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＠Habetrot
Yup. Mab snatched defeat from the jaws of victory right at the very end, when her human right-hand man and husband betrayed her.
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＠Habetrot
And of course, Aesc wasn't about[sr]to pass up a chance like that!
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＠Habetrot
She backed Mab into a corner while she was already writhing in pain and gave her the thrashing of her life!
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＠Habetrot
Then she made her swear to join the other clans and never attack Britain again!
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＠Senji Muramasa
...When it rains, it pours, huh. I know that kind of underhanded tactic is par for the course when it comes to war, but still...
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＠Redra Bit
Snort... No wonder she hates humans so much. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if she wants to wipe them all out.
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＠Grímr the Sage
Nah. Edinburgh'd never be this grand of a city if she just wanted to wipe humans out.
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＠Grímr the Sage
I think the real question that story raises is:[sr]Why was she writhing in pain?
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？1：...

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