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

After he finished speaking, Brutrumukk became somewhat lost in thought for a time. Only recovering when he realized that Aurora had asked him about the best gift he'd ever received. [color=brown]"The best gift [i]I[/i] ever got?"[/color] Brutrumukk said. [color=brown]"I got that a long time ago. So far back that gettin' it's actually the earliest memory I can think of. When I was about three years old, me mum an' me dad were part of an 'ost. Only it weren't doin' so good as it used to be, so me mum an' me dad decided to get a bunch of other bugbears together an' lop off some 'obgoblin 'eads. I don't remember much of 'ow it went, but I do still remember seein' me dad club the 'ost's warlord to death at the end. After he chopped the 'ead off, 'e let me play with it whenever it weren't on a spike. It was me favorite toy fer a long time."[/color] Brutrumukk then looked contemplative for a moment before speaking again.

[color=brown]"There are two other gift memories I can think of."[/color] Brutrumukk added. [color=brown]"They ain't the best gifts what I ever got, but since we are where we are, I feel like it'd be fittin' to tell you lot about 'em."[/color] Brutrumukk took a moment to eat some pie before continuing. [color=brown]"Me mum knew 'ow to tame axe beaks, so me old gang always 'ad a few o' those birds around. When I was eight, an axe beak chick took a likin' to me, I called 'im Chopper an' we were never too far from each other after that. Then one day, the little bugger wandered off while I wasn't lookin'. I went off to look fer 'im, but I 'ad no luck even after hours o' searchin'. Just as I was about to give up, this woman with white 'air, white clothes, an' a weird chicken foot tattoo under 'er eye appeared out o' nowhere."[/color] Brutrumukk paused then for another bite of pie before pressing on. [color=brown]"She asked me why I was lookin' so bothered. When I told 'er why, this weird smile appeared on 'er face an' she told me she could 'elp. When I agreed to let 'er, she used this magic whistle an' before you know it, Chopper came runnin' out the bushes like 'e'd never even left. When I looked back to ask the weird woman who she was an' why she 'elped me, I found that she'd vanished as suddenly as she arrived."[/color]

Brutrumukk took a moment to finish the rest of his pie then before recounting his second story. [color=brown]"After that, things when back to normal fer about three years."[/color] The bugbear continued. [color=brown]"Then a bunch of adventurers came along an' killed most o' me gang. When they found me though, they got all weird with each other about me bein' a kid. [i]'No we can't kill 'im! 'E's a child! It's wrong!'[/i] One of 'em said. [i]'That ain't no child, that's a monster. You really think it'd 'esitate like this if our roles were reversed?'[/i] Another said. I managed to sneak away while they were yammerin' on. As I escaped, I ran into that weird woman again. She 'elped me get away from the adventurers and led me to a big rock. She used magic to 'ollow it out, give it a secret entrance, an' make it a nice place to live in. This time, I managed to ask who the woman was an' why she 'elped me. She said that she was a Fairy Godmother an' then told me 'bout the Rule o' Recipe City. Then she vanished into thin air."[/color]

With his stories done, Brutrumukk looked back at Aurora. [color=brown]"So what about you?"[/color] Brutrumukk asked. [color=brown]"What was the best thing you ever got?"[/color]