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Raefindan & Ędegard
"With the three of you talking, only the dead could sleep," Ędegard growled to Roy, Mellondu, and Mellonin.
"Then plug your ears and sleep," Mellonin retorted. "Oh!" Her hand went to her mouth. "I am sorry."
The two caught a smirk on Ędegard's face in the dimming firelight. "Yes, this hamfist is a bit large for plugging an ear. I'll have to have you yank on mine ear to grow it large enough." He sat up and joined them. "Sleep stays far from you too?"
They nodded and stared at the fire.
Roy could not help himself, though he had resolved to speak as little as possible to the others so as to avoid influencing them with the future he brought with him. "Why, friend, are you so bent on leaving?"
Ędegard sighed. "I am no use to this group. I am too much the fool."
"We are all fools in our way," Roy said.
Ędegard looked at him in surprise. "You include yourself, yet you are the least foolish among us!"
Roy allowed a half smile. "It would be arrogance to withhold myself from the charge, for I know better. So foolishness is no reason to leave us."
Ędegard shook his head. "What would you have me do then?" He looked at each of them. Raefindan seemed unready to answer of a sudden. Ędegard looked to Mellondu and Mellonin, searching them for an answer.
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