Setting it up.....

Non-human eyes open, and then wince as a headache the likes of which the dwarf had only experienced at after his coming of age party......a little before the onset of puberty brought him his first whiskers of dwarven adulthood.......and the curse that eventually banished him from his Clan.

A dwarf without a Clan is sad, but a dwarf Banished from a Clan is tragic indeed. This is because news of Why the dwarf in question was banished quickly spreads throughout the dwarven community, to all dwarven Clans. Every member of Tarin Gazin's people shunned him because of his ability to be able to glimpse into possible futures and pasts (author's note: actually, Tarin can see into other parallel worlds just like any other Seer from Terra.....) In a race that idolized their ability at strength of arms and saw magic as being effeminate at the very least......Tarin was more than a little embarrassing.

"But now Tarin....we are too magical to be forgiven," giggles the mad dwarf, retreating even further from sanity. "With the trinkets from the Hoard, I could have regained a place of respect in the Clan.....instead of being a pariah....."

"Maybe Tarin never really was a dwarf," Tarin muttered to himself, expressing his deepest doubts about himself with the onset of the Visions. "Perhaps we were really just a dragon in disguise, sent to spy and eventually finish off what they had already started?"

Strong though the dwarven constitution is, Tarin still felt like the proverbial elephant had stomped all over his body, and then called in friends to dance a waltz on his mashed remains! Perhaps, since it was now clear to Tarin that he wasn't actually a dwarf....and perhaps never really had been, that he should embrace the horror that was the magical nature that now made up his essence (or...unbeknownst to him....HAD made made up his essence).

Perhaps he could change into something that didn't ache quiet as much.....something that not only could easily slay his hated mirror image.....but eventually go about and destroy the cursed human town that he'd willed himself into. Right now, even Tarin realized that a person naked and as weak as he was at the momment stood no chance against an immediate battle with an armed foe (and many of the well to do....and his twin.....were more than adequately armed and armored......)

Tarin, still on the floor of the stable, concentrated. He willed his body to grow and warp into the fiercest dragon he could imagine. He bears down on it with all his strength.....All he managed by his efforts was to increase his headache to titanic proportions.

Tarin Gazin, still weak and drawn from the rough transition from his world to Terra "Prime" passed out from the pain of it all.

1. Thus this was how the small patrol of town guards and Amazon warriors who came upon Tarin and the unconscious human couple (who for some reason were smiling.......)

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