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"Of course I done fantastic job!" Wu boasted. "I am super laundry man
number one! Number one! Nobody better!" He had a better time with
his 'r's now. "I can't thank you enough," Astra sighed. "I swear that you will be repayed." "No worry!" Wu assured her. "I never expected you to pay! HA! I play good joke, huh!? And I no even go pee-pee in your coke, get it!? HA!"Astra was perplexed. "Uh...ya, very funny..." "I been expecting you," Wu continued, being mysterious once again. "Very important you come to Hespan. I paid off the Sage of the White Mountain 5 year ago, when trouble first start happening here. He a cheap bastard, charge me 500 gold! I go hungry for weeks after that! He preordained you and chubby little dragonslayer coming here, that potion the pale man drink was planted on beach, too, ha ha!""WHAT!?" Astra gasped, fearing that this man might be much more than he at first seemed. "How - Why!?" "It long story," the mystical man from the orient replied. "You no have time for that. Soldiers looking for you, Governor Gilder no like tresspassers on his beach, it very special beach. That big no-no. But that been preordained as well - I explain later! I take you out of city, take you to safe place. Then we talk more. We have very much talk to do, Princess.""You are surely a warlock!" "Call me what you want - just no call me late for dinner! You get it!? Ha ha ha!" He then turned more serious. "You must trust me. Corona big, wacky city. Chaos energy everywhere now. Only you and horny Allarian can save this place. You must believe me. How you think I get here? This a loony place now! It used to be normal..." His eyes bore into Astra's like hot coals, and she could hardly return his steady gaze. No one had ever been able to affect her so much with just one look. She shuddered. "I - I don't have much of a choice," she stammered. "I am far from my home, and I have nowhere else to go. I will trust you, Wu, although you make me very unsettled.""Sure, sure," Wu said matter-of-factly. "It no big surprise that I shock you a little. It to be expected." "So, what do we do now?""I make us some fry rice and sweet sour pork, you like! Then we wake up your friend and take secret tunnels under city. I take you to the Supreme Council of Order, they been forced below the city. It too crazy now." "The Supreme Council?""Of Order! No time for that! I make us food, then we go!"
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