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Old 03-04-2004, 03:47 PM   #127
Child of the 7th Age
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Aiwendil:

Rôg's negotiations seemed to go round in circles. The trading caravan was in no hurry to leave the shelter of the oasis. After much arguing back and forth, they finally reached an agreement. A Man walked over to the herds and picked out a particularly surly looking beast. Aiwendil came over to have a closer look. It was a tall camel, even taller than the istar. The hump-backed creature turned his head to stare balefully at the two of them, pulling back his lips to reveal a mouth full of dog-like fangs, and then lashed out with a hind leg, offering a glancing blow to Rôg's side.

With a few whispered words of calm from Aiwendil, the creature docily knelt down and let its new owners clamber aboard. As the trio halted for a moment by the water hole to let the animal drink his fill, one of the traders came over to whisper a final word of warning. "Go warily, my friends. It is springtime, the time of the winds. On the coast, such things mean only inconvenience, but where you go, it can mean much more."

Aiwendil nodded his head in acknowledgement without really understanding what the Man was saying, and, speaking once again to the camel, turned the animal around. The great beast glided swiftly out of camp, leaving the coastal shore behind them and heading towards the sandy horizon that lay to their east. Once they were clearly out of range, Aiwendil had the animal kneel, so that his friend could get down and change into whatever shape he might prefer.
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