Setanta lands, and the moment he does, he moves to the crowd and grabs a knife from one of the members of the mob who are all holding miscellaneous weapons. Then he moves towards Culainn and Aurelius, pulling them out of harm’s way.“You ok, old man, do you need some worms?”Culainn looks at Setanta and says, “Don’t make fun of birds, you stupid wolf.”Setanta smiles, then gets up and faces Dáire, then he says, “First son of the Lugh Ó Faoláin, next head of the house of Faoláin and the next king of Gorias, Setanta Ó Faoláin. I give you only until the next time I blink to explain to me what just happened to my compatriots.”Blinking, he says, “Times up.”Setanta glares at all of them with a ferocity that makes many of them, except Dáire's elite warriors, shudder in fear.Dáire looks at Setanta and says, “Son of Lugh, a human was caught walking in our lands, and will be judged by the rules of it.”“This is Biorg land.”“But this is the providence of Findias, so it still all falls under t

Aurelius looked up at me with a pained and frustrated expression. It is the face of someone who has had to swallow a harsh reality that they would rather reject under all circumstances.“What? Is the truth hard to hear? Well, as you said, people are free to make whatever choices they want, so if she didn’t like it, she could have just killed herself.”“Setanta, shut the hell up!”“But you would hate that, wouldn’t you? You want her to be alive and suffer through all of that, just so you can make her pump out her fifth set of kids that look like you, don’t you?”He raises his fist to punch me, and as he does, I say, “Hit me all you want, but understand that the only reason you can is because I let you. You’re no different than a pet biting its master in this moment, you can get as sad and angry as you want, but your survival demands good behaviour.Even after all I said, you still want to live so badly that you won’t punish me for my words. The common Beastkin could beat you, break your

Minagrain, in front of me, turns incredibly nervous, and she blushes again and again. Her ears start to move wildly, and she takes her tail and uses it to cover her face. She jumps from one foot to the next and then falls to the ground while still holding her tail.Then she looks at me, and she nods.“Was that a, yes?” A say with a face of disbelief.“Yes,” She gestures towards me.I pick her up, twirl her around, and say, “I happen to be the happiest man around!”She turns more and more red as I twirl her around, and we both laugh together. Then, stopping, I hold her tight and put the ring on her finger, which makes her raise her arm to stare at it, before looking directly at me and smiling.Is it even fair to be this cute? Is it even fair to be this adorable? It is like this little girl has a grip on my soul, and there is nothing I can do about it. I am completely dominated by her.“Don’t worry, Minagrain, I will get this traded for some jewellery for your tail instead of this human

Φ As Dagda laughs in front of me, I say, “So, if you would excuse me.”With his same cherry smile as always, he says, “Haha, your jokes are as tasteful as your clothes. Now Medb, where is my money?”“Money? You mean the financial instrument we have assigned value to for the sake of switching things we have made into items we have collected from our environment and from others through labour, intelligence and ingenuity?”With his smile fading a bit, he says, “Hahaha, yes. Now, where is it?”“Dagda, what really is value? Is it something kings assign value to-,”“Yes.”Putting my finger on his lips, I say, “OR! Is it the exchange of wills from one person to another, so isn’t my mere smile payment enough?”“Not a chance, now my money.”I get thrown off my balance as he rejects me, and then I lean on him and say, “We have known each other for a long time, and you still don’t trust me.”“I trusted you decades ago when I invested in your research, hoping for a return. But every time you make

-Break-Walking with the flour thief beside me in the hallway, I ignore her cries and hum to myself, but then she cries even louder while pushing the bump on her head into me.So, I start to hum much more cheerfully than before while keeping the same tone, but she continues to push into me, so I put her in a headlock and use my knuckle to aggravate her bump, which causes her to say, “OWOWOWOW!”She then bites me in the arm, and I say, “You gluttony.”I start to pull her hair, but she locks her legs with mine and continues to chow down on my arm, and our fight continues until we both lose energy, and I say, “You’re a beast.”“And you’re delicious,” she says, licking her lips.“I think I might bring forward that execution.”“Try me, I will defeat you before you have the chance.”“You think you can beat me?”“I think I can eat you.”We both get up and press our heads against each other, and I say, “You’re both a glutton and a liar.”“If everyone believes a lie, it becomes the truth.”“Nu-