[Child of the 7th Age]

Stoatie came hustling back to Shifty and dug into his pocket to fish out the crumpled sheet. Then he shoved it under his henchman's nose.

"Here. Read this. Everyone's gone off to some party. Maybe this tells us where they're at."

"Stoatie," Shifty protested, "My readin' ain't so good."

"Well, it's gotta be better than mine. Take a look at this. Can you make out any names or places?"

Shifty shook his head, "I can't make out most of this but I see two short words here I can read. Don't know if this is any help." With difficulty, Shifty slowly pronounced the two short words as if they were totally unrelated to each other: 'Bag'.....'End'"

"Bag-End?" Stoatie shrieked triumphantly, then lowered his voice to a whisper. "I know jes' where we're goin' now. It's a ways from here. We'll need the horses. Let's drop by Ratty and Tom and tell 'em where we're headin'. Then you 'n me will take off to do the job. Oh, yeah, and bring that extra pony."

[ July 01, 2003: Message edited by: Child of the 7th Age ]