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She was found within Xender City limits, a tiny half-elf child. At various times the story was that she’d been found abandoned in an alley – or offered for sale by a desperate woman with too many mouths to feed,or maybe a secret to hide – still other times exchanged for services rendered, or offered for sale as a servant, or left behind by a traveling circus. Tut rescued, bought, was paid to take her — he called the child ''Ruby'' and added her to his small family of thieves. Some chuckled and said she was probably just one of the mercenary’s get, and he spun the other stories because, well, Tut liked to spin stories. | She was found within Xender City limits, a tiny half-elf child. At various times the story was that she’d been found abandoned in an alley – or offered for sale by a desperate woman with too many mouths to feed,or maybe a secret to hide – still other times exchanged for services rendered, or offered for sale as a servant, or left behind by a traveling circus. Tut rescued, bought, was paid to take her — he called the child ''Ruby'' and added her to his small family of thieves. Some chuckled and said she was probably just one of the mercenary’s get, and he spun the other stories because, well, Tut liked to spin stories. | ||
The others did, too. ‘Mander said Red must be the secret heir of the | The others did, too. ‘Mander said Red must be the secret heir of the Drowned City of Ginstadt (whatever the hell that was); Clay loved to tell the story of how she was found in a garbage heap behind the Wobbly Wyvern, filthy and feral, clutching a week-old dead rat. Blue-eyed Buckle said she was a changeling, traded at birth by the fae and left in the night deposit with a copper coin and two sea-grey seashells. (This was Red’s favorite.) | ||
Existence was spare in the Roost but happy and satisfying. Tut told his tales and provided for his small gang, Red’s only family. Who cared who she had been, where she came from – she preferred to live in the now. | Existence was spare in the Roost but happy and satisfying. Tut told his tales and provided for his small gang, Red’s only family. Who cared who she had been, where she came from – she preferred to live in the now. |