[CENTER][h1][color=brown]Brutrumukk[/color][/h1][/CENTER]

[color=CCCC22]"I think you're [i]really[/i] making this out to be a bigger problem than it actually i-"[/color]

A tiny hand seized Jub's collar and yanked the goblin down the rest of the way to where Brutrumukk lay. [color=brown]"Listen 'ere you little shit."[/color] Brutrumukk growled in goblin into Jub's ear. [color=brown]"Fer all seventeen years o' my life, I 'ave felt the brother gods were never too far away. Even if they weren't on the same plane as me. I felt Hruggek makin' me big an' strong. An' I felt Grankhul makin' me sneaky an' cunnin' and more than just a short fuzzy ogre... But now?"[/color]

The look on Brutrumukk's face and the tone of his voice slowly but surely began to turn from angry to worried at this point. [color=brown]"I can't feel 'em any more."[/color] He said. [color=brown]"They're gone from my life an' their gifts left with 'em. I'm so small now. An' I can barely even shoulder this backpack, let alone swing a weapon as 'ard as I did before. I can't remember 'ow to be sneaky. An' of all the things that've slipped into me mind in its place, about three o' those things ain't completely useless. All that's left now from before I became this... [i]thing[/i] is the fear that comes from Skiggaret bein' 'round when somethin' could kill me."[/color]

The [s]bugbear's[/s] gnome's mood shifted from worry to dread then. [color=brown]"An' if somethin' does kill me... what's gonna 'appen now?"[/color] Brutrumukk asked uncertainly. [color=brown]"Will I still go to Acheron? Will I still get to fight in the Eternal War with me old gang at me side again? Or is that not an option no more? Am I gonna 'ave to go wherever gnomes go when they die? Is my soul gonna be in the 'ands o' Garl Glittergold an' whatever other false-things the gnomes think are gods?"[/color]

Brutrumukk released Jub then and curled into himself, clutching at his head as a myriad of negative emotions warred for prominence on his face. [color=brown]"What's gonna 'appen to me?"[/color] Brutrumukk asked as he was finally forced to fully confront his predicament. [color=brown]"What's gonna 'appen to me?"[/color]