Objects of Fear
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 94108
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The barn provided a much larger floor area than any single room in the
farmhouse, so was the natural place to hold a party. Oil lamps provided a
reasonable degree of illumination, by which Fred and Astra could see that
about a dozen people were dancing, while around the same number were
eating, drinking and talking.
The large double door had made a loud creaking noise when Fred and Astra pushed it open, so that everyone turned in their direction. "Greetings..." Fred said, not knowing what else to say. Some of the guests gasped. Fred and Astra each had several sores on their faces by now, of the twenty or so that they had in all. "The plague!" someone muttered. "Leave at once!" another partygoer said. Someone else grabbed a pitchfork from where it lay against the wall. "You needn't fear us," Astra said. "We aren't infectious. But if you could spare some food for two travellers down on their luck..."
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JH (the potential upside is that if most of the locals are at the party there maybe some places nearby with nobody home)
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