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How come One-Eye? On account of the eye patch. Clever, huh?

The other runt is Goblin. You should have been warned about him,
too. No? Well,

stay out of their way. All the time is best, but especially if they are
arguing,

and most particularly if they have been drinking. As wizards go they
are no

earthshakers but they are more than you will be able to handle.

Puny as they are, they are the main reason the Shadowlanders
have stayed out

there in the country roughing it, leaving the wallowable luxuries of
the city to

the Taglian troops and Black Company.

No, now pay attention. Goblin is the white one. All right, you’re right,
he is

overdue for his annual bath. Goblin is the one who looks like a
toad. One-Eye is

the one with the hat and the patch.

The guys in the once-upon-a-time-they-were-white tunics are
Taglian soldiers.

Every day now every one of them asks himself what damned fool
notion made him

enroll in the legions.

The folks wearing the colored sheets and unhappy expressions
are locals.

Jaicuri.

Fancy this. When the Company and the legions swooped down
from the north and

surprised Stormshadow they hailed the newcomers as liberators.
They strew the

streets with rose petals and favorite daughters.