[center][color=CCCC22][h3]Jub the Peculiar[/h3][/color][/center]

[color=CCCC22]"Thank you,"[/color] Jub said to Brutrumukk, even as he began to rub his own back to make sure his bugbear companion hadn't done any damage in his attempts to help. After a moment, he surmised he might have a bruise there tomorrow, but that was still far preferrable to joking to death.

[color=CCCC22]"Past tense: a use of language donoting that something happened at an earlier point of time,"[/color] the goblin explained. [color=CCCC22]"Basically, he's implying that while this Zybilna would have been okay with us foraging and hunting in her lands, this Hourglass Covern likely won't."[/color]