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[b][color=265828]Time:[/color][/b] One Week After Human Arrival
[b][color=265828]Location:[/color][/b] Somewhere in the forest
[b][color=265828]Interactions:[/color][/b] Timothy [@mole]
[b][color=265828]Mentions:[/color][/b] None
[b][color=265828]Equipment:[/color][/b] Longsword and Plate Armor[hr]
Did they really leave him behind?

Barrock lumbered, stumbled and tripped his way through the forest to no sight of Aurora and Rowan. As he saw the eventide reflected onto his face, he sat down upright by one of the nearby trees his eyes closed. For a couple of hours, tranquility came in the form of chirps.

He didn’t know if this was a thing with orcs, or if it was just him, but he didn’t dream. He didn’t sleep either. As his body was in its healing cradle, his mind seemed to wander in a colorless area, surrounded by thoughts that appeared in no direction and order in particular.

[b][color=265828]’That was such a waste of time’[/color][/b]

It was whatever. He was a mercenary a few days ago for years. There was no pain in coming back to it. Barrock didn’t have high opinions of these rag tag rebels, and if they were so disorganized to the point of leaving him the moment they got injured like that, why would he trust them with his life? He’d pretend like he never knew them.

[b][color=265828]’I thought it would have amounted to something.’[/color][/b]

He really did though. He didn’t know what to think of that. Stupid, naive?

[b][color=265828]’As much as those pigs disgusted me, they really made me fear for my own life briefly’ [/color][/b]

[b][color=265828]’Did I really devolve back into such a subspecies?’ [/color][/b]

People liked to remind him that no matter who he was and what he did, he was still an orc. He saw it for himself, when pushed to the brink, the animal in him had taken over, and he did what they do best. Were they ultimately right?

Then suddenly in the backdrop of nothingness, he saw physicslly a white light approaching, expanding and engulfing the space around him.

Barrock opened his eyes, his ears perked to the sound of rustling leaves. He immediately stood up with his sword raised horizontally in the direction of the sound. The orc saw him, a pale creature was hard to hide in the greens.