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Story for the Day: Boomerang

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The Kali is the Lucentian returning knife. It is a blade given only to those who are trained by the Lucentian crown, and while many assassins and guildsmen learn how to use its returning properties to great effect, none can craft one as easily and effortlessly as Rannig. Part of the upcoming book The Myrellenos: Peppone peered at Rannig, who had taken a large rock from his pocket and was forming a curved depression in the centre of it by pressing against it with his thumbs, grinding his immense thumbs along the inner ridge and querning into a chevron, and then glanced at Bartleby, who was watching Rannig out of the corner of his eye and beginning to miffle to himself about the possibility of mineral elasticity.                 “He really thinks other people can do the things he can do?” Peppone asked incredulously.                 “He’s a bit o’ sunshine on a flower,” said Brogan, “but he’ll break every bone in yer body and wear you for a coat before thinkin’ about it.”  

Story for the Day: Classic Rautu -- Part 2

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Whenever there is a package to be got, you may be very sure that a certain giant will always be by to claim it: Morning came, and with it brought on the return of the Scoaliegh. He came just before sunrise, racing toward aurora, marking the blaze of the sun peeking up from the median line as he rode into Diras, galloping through the gauntlet of midges and hedgeflies, riding round the claudication of beggars collected at the capital gate. He came from Westren, where a package for Pastaddams was being put together in a hurry, and came on the wings of anticipation, thinking the parcel having something to do with a present for Her Majesty. Gaumhin saw him from his place atop the capital wall and waved him in, and he trotted up the hill to the castle gate, where he dismounted and began loosening the parcels attached to the saddle bags.                 “There you are, my girl,” said he, laying the parcels aside. “You had an excellent ride tonight. Now we shall visit your friends Mas