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"The Wingadingies" (Greenhill and Two River) Perhaps it had been exhaustion, maybe it had been food poisoning, or maybe having a True Rune drove you insane after awhile. But whatever it was, it was 'a far stupider thing he had done, than had ever been done before'. It started rather simply, Stallion was in Greenhill at the time. He had come to this town of knowledge hoping to find some insight on becoming fast, very fast! But that's off subject and to make it a short story, he failed. So he was in the local restaurant, eating, well... more like scarfing it down in a hurry. The person next to him noticed him doing that and began to speak in a slow, horribly slow voice that haunts him to this day. "What's the hurry, friend?" He asked him, speaking out of the right side of his mouth. Being Stallion, he didn't answer him, why should he? He was busy. "Aint healthy eatin' like that" He added, "Do you right bad later when you get old" Annoyed, Stallion lifted up his right arm, briefly showing him the True Holy Rune as if it was enough reason to pig out. "Heh heh heh, is that the Pepto Bismo Rune?" He said sarcastically, but to slow for it to be humorous. "No, its a True Rune" The Toranian elf retorted, still having food left in his mouth. "Ohh... what's the hurry then?" "What?" Stallion asked, confused by the statement. "You've got all the time in the world, slow down, rushing may get you there faster, but waiting a few minutes isn't going to cause a disaster from you not being there" "Is that so? What would you suggest?" A few seconds later Stallion started mentally kicking himself because the old man's slow annoying speech got old fast. "I suggest you take some time off, get away from the rush... settle down, chew the fat. A vacation is in order, you got the time, you got all the time in the world. Relax... take a nice time off, us normal un-runed people don't git' the time to slack off like ya'll True Rune-Bearers do" Stallion thought about it for awhile and he liked the idea of lying about and 'chewing the fat'. Of course no one in Toran Village of the Elves would ever let him do that and he didn't know anyone around here who would. "A vacation? Hmm, sounds like a good idea... I've been getting in a few human skirmishes recently..." "Well... if yer lookin' for yerself a place to stay, try Two River.... But make sure ye don't hang around busy people.. else you get busy and ruin the whole idea, know what I mean?" Stallion nodded, thanked the man and lefts, he then exited the restaurant, left Greenhill and headed south to Two River. When he entered, he entered via the Kobold Section and he figured that them being stupid mutts, they probably had a relaxed, laid back life. He was wrong, they woke before the sun, trained in combat, cooked, guarded, ate meager portions of food. Not his way of life, they were far to busy for him, so he went on, skipped the Wingers and went to the Human District. It seemed nice and quaint, they all went about their meaningless lives to here and there. He figured he could do that, he had plenty of pocket change to spare to stay at the Inn for a week or so. That was until he ran into some Politician in a huge hurry. Recalling the old man's final statement, he decided that the humans were to busy for his little vacation. There was nowhere else... save the 'Wingading' (As Stallion had begun to call them) District, but he wasn't to crazy about staying there. But he had set my mind on staying in Two River, so he would have to look and find a place to stay. As he entered the dirty little town, he began to notice the extreme differences in the lifestyle between the humans, kobolds and wingers. In the Toran Republic it was to be expected, after all the elves, dwarves, kobolds and humans live separately. But in Two River, they lived side by side and one would expect similar lifestyles, but he was wrong. Here Kobolds live in tents, humans in houses, and the Wingy things in those shack-like-hut things they lived in. Since they had wings, they probably had an easy carefree life, so it would be ideal to stay there and be served . So he chose a random house to try first, he knocked on the door and received no response. So he tried another, ending with the same result, it then dawned on him that the town was completely empty. Not a soul to be seen anywhere, it was extremely quiet and naturally he was curious as to why. So he tried a third house and knocked, as before no one answered, so he knocked and knocked over and over. Realizing that the door was unlocked and following the principle of entering unlocked houses just because they were unlocked, he went in. At the table sat a few wingading people that looked over as soon as he entered. "You!" A young girl with wings sprouting from her back yelled, "You can't just walk in! Jeez, just like everyone else, got fancy clothes and you think you own the place!" "Yeah! And funny ears too, he thinks he's special now!" A young boy added. "What? Pointy ears?" The girl said surprised, she walked over to him and inspected the side of the elf's head, "Ack! Pointy ears and pointy blue hair, he's weirder than regular humans!" "I bet he's got a tail too!" The young boy chirped and ran around the stranger to see if he was right, "Hmm... no tail, maybe he's just a weird human and that's all" "Nah" The girl responded "I've seen people come through here all the time to Greenhill or Lakewest. And a lot of 'em are weird, but not as weird as 'im!" "Yeah, like that one Lucy person who kidnapped Rinka!" The boy added, "And that crazy inventor girl who went with Chaco!" "Shh! Be quiet Toko!" The young girl snarled out at her younger brother. "What!?" Toko mumbled. Finally Stallion decided to speak since they seemed to be done talking, "Hello, I wo--" "Why can't I tell him about all those weird people?" Toko complained, cutting Stallion off "You never let my do anything!!" "Hush, you think just because big brother is out that you can do whatever you want!" The female wingy thing replied. "Bah! Your mean Tiki!" Toko yelled and climbed down some stairs to his little room. "AHEM!" Stallion barked, hoping that he could finally say something. "Oh, yeah, you just can't barge in weird person thingy!" Tiki said and attempted to escort him out the door. "Heh, your one to talk about weird, at least I'm not a bat thingy!" Stallion retorted. "Grrr! Why you!" She replied angrily, "What do you want anyways?" "Finally!" He sighed, able to explain himself now, "I want to stay at this house for my vacation, I'm willing to pay whatever you think is fair" She quickly ran off and downstairs for a minute or so then ran up, "Ok, it's 2,000 Potch a night and that's only because my big brother will be out for the next three weeks anyways". He simply shrugged, not wanting to argue, although he thought the price was a bit steep. He fumbled through his pouch and handed her four 500 piece potch bills. After counting them over a few times, she led him upstairs to a empty room with a simple bed mattress lying on the floor with a small lantern beside it. To tired to complain about the crude quarters given, he settled in the bed and fell asleep relatively quick. The night came and went and not to surprisingly, it was morning the next day. Having not eaten supper last night he looked forward to breakfast. However he was met with disappointment, Tiki and Toko informed him that they had no food and would have to go find some. Angry, he left the house and attempted to find a restaurant. The only one open that early was a small diner in the Kobold District that made it a point only to serve spicy foods. Despite that he ate a lot and took some medicine to prevent 'discomforts' later on. So far the day had done him no justice so far and he longed to avenge his weary body and queasy stomach. To keep his mind off of it he decided to have a nice run around the district to keep his body in good condition so he wouldn't be slow and sluggish after he finished his stupid vacation. As he was running he noticed that early in the morning that the winger children ran about all the time and the parents... Well he really wasn't able to exactly able to tell what they did, as far as he could tell they did odd jobs here and there and thievery to get by. He didn't get it though, the wingers, although dirty and prone to thievery, were superior in the aspect of being able to fly or glide as opposed to the humans and kobolds. After returning to his temporary dwelling place, he mentioned it to Tiki and asked why the wingers were so bad off. She shrugged and told him it was like that ever since the humans from Tinto kicked them out. Apparently they used to be farmers in the Tinto mountain regions, but Tinto moved it and they had to move out. Then some Jowstonian hero helped them move into the Two River city. Thinking that since Humans were able to get along with Kobolds there, it would be the same with Wingers. It seemed to work for awhile, but this hero fellow happened to be the Jowston Champion in a battle and ended up losing. Then everything went downhill and the wingers were looked down on. Leading up to then, them being poor thieves, considered inferior to humans and kobolds. "Well, that certainly is interesting..." Stallion mused, "Ya know, it was almost the same way in the Great Forest. Elves, dwarves and kobolds all together, all distrusted each other. We elves saw Kobolds as filthy savages and dwarves, mean creatures that ate elves. And the dwarves saw us elves as 'So-called superior beings' and kobolds as stupid mutts. And the kobolds considered both elves and dwarves to be selfish and cowardly creatures. I guess it's inevitable for distrust and prejudice to happen when you see someone different... I dunno, maybe it's because their jealous or they fear the power a race may have. Or maybe they see them as lowly creatures not worthy of their respect." Tiki and Toko both took some time to look at each other questioningly, Tiki spoke up saying, "You lost us after the 'Great Forest' part" "That makes three of us" Stallion mumbled, "I have no idea what I was rambling on about either... so heh heh... what's for dinner?" I can't believe we let this blue haired pointy eared person stay with us.... Tiki looked at Stallion and shrugged, "Fish" I can't believe that idiot human talked me into this... This is not 'relaxing' in the least... stupid wingadings... Stallion forced a half-hearted grin, "Wonderful".
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