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Hungry Ghoul
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Enter Valdavar Son of Vurdvrikar
Suddendly a voice burst out in loud laughter, so clear and with a deep voice, that the travellers jerked at its sound.
It came from a man who was sitting at a table to one side of the common room together with a few local hunters and woodcutters.
The fire from the hearth showed well, although sitting on a chair, what a huge man this was. Tall, broad, and massively built, with a big belly, and long and strong arms like branches of an old oak, and big, firm hands which held a stone mug with a clutch which let the mug look like a thimble. His round face was young and red, and was well covered by brown hair which he wore wild, and a brown beard. The light which was caught in his eyes showed they were amber, and gave the friendly, simple face an air of wild cunning. He was clad in simple woollen clothes, and had a brown, rough shirt on which did not cover his hairy arms.
As the travellers gazed at him, he laughed out again, opening his mouth widely, his belly shaking with the sound of his loud laughing. But now that they saw his face, along with hearing his hearty laughter, anyone could tell this was not an evil man who can laugh so merrily and clear. He seemed rather like a friendly bear than like the thug a first glance may let him look like.
Still chuckling, he met the travellers' glance with his own, and shouted over the few feet between the tables,
"What have I done to you people that you look at me as if I was the thunderstorm that has just ruined your harvest? But I should not be unfriendly. Innkeeper, serve this strangers a round of the mead I brought!
Now let my introduce myself. I am Valdavar, son of Vurdvrikar. While this may not ring a bell, you may have heard of my great-grandfather, Beorn the Bearserker!"
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Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000003>Sharku</A> at: 4/11/01 3:11:29 pm