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The wind here was gentle, and it seemed to have forgotten the bristling spite of the endless wastelands that had marked the rest of Tam's journey these last few days.  It was a gradual shift, from cracked and jaded earth to leaves and grass and spring-ish gusts.  He welcomes it.  Maybe the worst of things had passed.  Maybe.    

His winter gear still stowed away, Tam was practically half-dressed in the brushy grassland.  The cooling breeze felt nice on his bare chest, exposed by his torso-less undershirt, and he'd rolled up his pants to leave his lower legs free to push comfortably through the plantlife of the meadow.  

The bridge he'd crossed was gone, but it didn't seem he'd ever want to go back to that awful sweaty broken waste, nor the panicked memories that had filled up his time there.  But now here was something new.  Other survivors.

One wasn't human, though he couldn't identify her race.  The stranger had blue skin, the ears of a mer, and only barely reached Tam's waist.  Despite her height, however, her hammer was solid and threatening, and it made Tam's own little hatchet feel somewhat inadequate.  

One may also have not been human, all robes and hoods, and his pack seemed just as big as Tam's.  Not the most trustworthy-looking, but Tam had been proved wrong on such things before.

Then, finally there was a woman in leather armor.  Her hair was in a ponytail, and her eyes were the very set and serious eyes that Tam had grown used to seeing in soldiers and killers and one or two very determined merchants.  Her clothes had a certain oddness to them that Tam couldn't place, and there was the strangest machine on her left arm, but she seemed the most familiar to him, and so she was the one he approached.  

"Howdy," said Tam Fiernas, in her direction, but roughly to all the others too.  He hiked over to them with a friendly wave.  "Nice weather today."