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The troupe was only too happy to hire on such fighters as Astra and Lord
Fred. The Great Kingdom, more commonly known as Allaria, was a bastion of
peace but not devoid of dangers. Over the course of the first few hours, the two got to know their new companions. Squiggy McTwiggernuts was the propman for the troupe, able to build darn near anything our of darn near anything else. He was thin as a rope and sharp as a knife. He could quote the ancient philophosers, Quoron, Belboz and Steven as easily as he could his lines. Grump was a man-mountain, with muscles Fred knew existed but never expected to actually be able to discern in a relaxed man. He said nothing beyond what his roles called for. And what he did say was delivered in silky smooth tones that made women swoon across the lands. Lois was the leader of the group, a grey haired woman with a mouth like a sailor and the medical skills to rival the most well reknowned physician. Click and Clack were twin brothers who kept the carts and transports oiled and moving. They were red-haired, short, jolly and were feared as fearsome knife fighters. The last member of the troupe actually scared Fred when...at a rest break one of the horses stood up, was grabbed a drape, twirled about and changed into an albino woman with soft green eyes. Kat laughed for a long time, seeing Fred's expression during her change. Later that night, around the fire... "Don't you feel you're using Kat?" Astra suddenly exclaimed to Squiggy. (Lois and Kat had gone down to the river after the men were done) The willow tree over their head whooshed in the wind, almost as if the suddenly upturned heads of the rest of the troupe had caused the breeze. Squiggy calmly explained that Kat didn't mind using her abillity to help the troupe. After all, a horse is a horse. "Of course. Of course." Fred said, as he dug into his pot roast. He didn't think it was his place to annoy his hosts.
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