Diederich approached one of the matrons, an old troll woman. "Have any Blood Elf children died recently?" he asked ( Read more... )

"Why do you have a dress?" Bastien said, snooping through Diederich's wardrobe.

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((Ismae asked to see some more of Bastien, and I'm a sucker for requests, so here you go. I have to admit he's a fun little thing to write about. ;) The previous scene with Bastien in it can be found here: page 1 and page 2. In this scene, all dialog in brackets is Gutterspeak.))

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"Are you Julia?" Diederich asked the woman advancing on the boy. ( Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. ~Joseph Joubert )

Diederich had headed back to the Undercity to try to find Ismae. Even if the last time they'd talked had upset him, she was still his best friend and his heart ached for her grouchy company ( Read more... )