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Old 03-05-2003, 08:45 PM   #770
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'Barak, is it not?' she said, nodding her head at the man who now stood at the bar. She slid his pouch of gold back toward him.

'No need to smooth over the fight with coin. Just see it does not happen again, or I will make a more permanent solution to the problem.' She slid the dagger from her arm sheath and picked up the pouch of coins by the strings, laying it in his hands.

'We have no apothecary here in Bywater, though if it is a simple herbal concoction you need, Old Maeve up Hill Road can do that for you. Anything more than that, and you will neeed to be heading to Bree. It's a Big Folk town. There is an apothecary there.'

She pulled out a pint tankard from the counter beneath the bar. 'Now, if you would like to spend a coin on some good Westfarthing ale, I should be happy to serve you.'
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