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[color=Firebrick][u][img]https://i.imgur.com/tXSgU2F.png[/img[/img][/u][/COLOR][hr][COLOR=#C0C0C0]The Barn[/COLOR]
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A heavy warm breath misted in the cold air as he let out a tired sigh. It was not directed at her, or anywhere, just an honest deep breath. He pause at the threshold of the barn, hand up against the old wood, gaze caught on something outside, on the darkness, on the cold, on the hidden town, on the nothingness. 

[color=Firebrick][b]"Thank you Eris, for the words of advice."[/b][/color]
He reply softly without turning back.
[color=Firebrick][b]"but do remember, I've been playing this game longer than you."[/b][/color] It was not a brag or a boast, in fact he seemed displeased to announce it. Sharing it as a fact.

He looked back and gave her one last fleeting smile.
[color=Firebrick][b]"Now you be careful with that stone. Such power has a way of becoming... addictive."[/b][/color]

If he was saying more, if there was intentions behind his words, his level voice and flat smile revealed nothing of it. Thoughtful eyes gazed at her for a moment with distant contemplation, and then he turned away and soon vanished around the corner of the barn. The sound of his steel staff stabbing at the ground and the snow crunching under his footfalls slowly fading into the distance.



Suddenly reminding her it was still there, Dinner the large boar let out a loud whining grunt.