Rat

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Perrin and his company, after fierce negotiations with the armorers, finally left the armor shop. The disdainful Llwyd had ordered the finely crafted buckler he had long sought. Rat, for her part, had managed to procure, through some negotiation, a bracer for her right arm. Special ordering a bracer for her right arm was just one of the many inconveniences Rat had endured by being left-handed in a right-handed world. She never delved in to how she got left-handed thief’s tools.

Rat, less interested in her recent acquisition, fiddled with her new “Magic Bee” pendant she had bought earlier that day at Falthar’s shop. She could not immediately come up with a use for a small clockwork bee that followed verbal instructions, but that was not the point. Fiddling with the bee reminded her of her ceramic magic frog. Falthar had given it to her in advance for some sort of duty he wanted her to perform tomorrow. She knew not what that would entail, but rested comfortably in the knowledge that whatever it was, she could always refuse and give the frog back.

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