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Originally Posted by Nogrod
"Hide!"
Nogrod jumped on Gwath and took him along under the table. Gwath was about to protest but Nogrod explained him: "It's to your own good. You don't want to witness what is to follow..."
Eyeing around from the floor level - and hearing Kuru jump out through the window - they realised they were not the only ones making that decision.
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Gwath just about lost his hat on the way down - but held on, and snagged the whiskey bottle at the last moment. It was, unfortunately, empty.
"Pity about the Finnish beer," he said to
Nogrod, oblivious to the goings-on and entrances and departures. "I'm an ale and stout man myself. The blacker the better."
He called for a pint. And another bottle of whiskey.
"Hair o' the dog what bit ya," he explained.