<span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The infinite wisdom of some people should be questioned, in this particular case it wasn't. The vase has been stored for the past ten years in an area few would think to look: the museum's storage area up on the 5th floor, not much resided up there but offices, potted plants, and a cafeteria, but the view of downtown was quite the site to behold, several of the companies had tried to buy the building and move the museum, but Mayor White had always blocked the move much to the disappointment of several business owners, some of bad repute and others that were not. <br/>
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It would have come as a surprise to no-one that the famed vase unlocked and began to move without notice by all...save one person. The shoes were unmistakable as was the bellowing laugh, this person was not known to either of the vase's prisoners, nor was the intent. The figure stood there watching with great interest in what was to come.<br/>
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The vase shook a bit more, then the cork or stopper if you will, popped off, filling the room with a greenish fog as a figure emerged, that of a 21 year old red haired, dressed in shades of green, the unmistakable golden sword oh his hip, it was Pan. He still was no taller than he was in 2007, though his hair was now a darker red instead of the orange red it had once been, his clothes looked nothing as they had when he was sucked into the vase, he was now wearing a green polo shirt, brown jeans, and brown boots. Why the change from the ratty "punk rocker" look? Sign of the times was the only guess the other figure in the room could make. <br/>
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The vase continued to release the greenish fog into the room, and Pan noticed Declan hadn't emerged yet and seeing an opportunity, scooped up the vase and proceeded to the window.<br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff">"Hold on there Pete, you can't just dump that out the window!"<br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600">"Get out of the way you big blue lug, this has <u>nothing</u> to do with you, it's personal"</span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The figure in question watched in shock as Pan moved to the window and proceeded to toss the vase out.<br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600">"Sorry Declan old boy, but you know how it is can't have you in my way my old friend. Do give my regards to Hades when you see him! Pity you can't fly, but you can certainly fall."</span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff">"Dude that's harsh! You shouldn't just drop someone out the window like that, I mean that's a bit---"</span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">"Look, when I want grief from you or anyone else for that matter I'll ask for it, then I'll cut your tongue out! Now who the hell are you and why are skulking about here, wherever here is?!"<br/>
</span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">"I'm the one, the only, GENIE OF THE LAMP! I was sent here to make sure you two got out okay but you needn't worry, I can't intervene on what you just did unless my master wishes it..."<br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600">"And just who is this "master" of yours and why should I care?"</span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff">"My master is Aladdin, or Al for short, he runs a flying carpet business down in the--"</span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600">"Yes, I am sure I don't care anymore I've got more important things to tend to so if you'll just crawl back to your master now..."</span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Pan waved the genie off dismissively, and looked out the window to see what a fine mess Declan would make when he hit the ground...only to be utterly disappointed to see merely a smashed vase. Oh well, with the Sorcerer's Apprentice gone he was free to resume his activities, besides the Lost Boys, Hook, and his "queen" Wendy were waiting for him. He still could not believe Declan's ignorance years ago before they entered the vase, he laughed at it in fact it was just so funny and showed off his cleverness, it was happy about it he felt like crowing! In fact he'd announce to the city he was back, he took off in flight crowing at the top of his lungs, excited to return to his group.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">But his arrogance was often his undoing, and he failed to notice the figure hanging from a flag pole, Declan watched as his former friend flew off crowing at the top of his lungs...they'd meet again on another day. But as Peter had noted, Declan couldn't fly...but he sure could fall, and he wasn't interested in falling from this height, the words "street pizza" came to mind. He had to look around and caught a glimpse of a blue figure standing near the window, he had no idea who it was but when the figure caught sight of him it seemed relieved almost. Very odd he thought, but that was quickly suppressed as his grip wasn't good, the wounds he'd received in 2007 were still present but as his time in the vase was a kind of stasis they didn't bleed or heal, now they resumed as if they had just been inflicted, and his bloody grip was slipping. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006600"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">He had to act quickly as the crowd below was now gawking at him and looking at the smashed vase, Peter was quite the showman...and he thought that Mayor White would have to forgive him for using the flag to crash a window...he had no other options...grabbing the flag and swinging forth, he shattered the window on the 4th floor, taking care as he rolled through not to hit the museum patrons, but smashing a statue of Robin Hood and Little John running through Sherwood forest.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/><span style="font-size: 15px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#000066"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">"Oh...uncle Merlin's going to kill me..."<br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Standing up and brushing the glass off, he politely nodded to some of the museum goers and patrons, as Peter had changed so had Declan, but only slightly he still had his dark blue eyes, but his hair had darkened from that dirty blond to more of a sandy brown color, though the blond hair showed up as the sun hit it. He was still taller than Peter, but shorter than his uncle, by two inches now. But he was no longer in the dress clothes he'd worn at the exhibit's opening ten years prior, no, now he was dressed in dark blue jeans though the slash from Peter's sword was still there on his left leg and bleeding, the shirt he was wearing was a red graphic t shirt sporting Snoopy sleeping on his doghouse, with the phrase "I'm busy...doing nothing". However there was a mark on his left arm, one that looked as if it had been carved into his skin...it was true it had been, by Declan himself....it was over that Wendy fiasco back in 2006. He checked over his left arm...making sure none of his blood touched it, it didn't and he wrapped the shoulder wound in the flag to prevent it. He was forced to tear a piece of cloth from one of the exhibits to bandage his leg...the wound across his chest would have to wait. His own shoes didn't make noise when he walked, which was a good thing and a bad one as people often would get startled when he approached and spoke. </span></span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">He bid the museum goers and patrons a good day before dialing his uncle Merlin's cell, about 20 minutes later a car was sent for Declan at the drop off area to the side of the museum, Declan was exhausted, the ordeal was not a fun one to say the least and of course Peter had him at the disadvantage with the injuries inflicted, though unknown to Peter...Declan had snagged one of his acorn buttons. His uncle had told him to go home and get some rest, he would stop by the Arcana Cabana tomorrow, he also mentioned that Declan's aunt Nimue was excited to hear he was back...also he needed to call Merida, she'd been worried sick and had phoned Merlin when she saw Peter's flamboyant return. Mister Toad's cab company and limo service was the best in Odense and they showed why in getting Declan from uptown to Old Town within 15 minutes, given this was lunch time traffic.</span></span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Though there was a passing motorcyclist, that caught his attention as he sat in the back of the limo the sense of Avalon came to him...he'd been taught to sense the fey and demons, but clairvoyance was never his school of magic...no he was evocation and illusion, two of the schools of balance, unlike his uncle Merlin, he was not a druid and therefore could not master more than two schools, magic users vary in the city and Declan was not the only one...just the only one with a fate or destiny or for some a curse...he had no idea what these people were on about regarding a "Prime Merlinian" there was no such thing, he was Merlin's nephew and of his bloodline true, but Arthur's knights and others knew who and what he was...as did other interested parties...though Peter regarded him as something different. Some including <i>her</i> had called him a demon, some a dream, others a nightmare...it comes with the territory of those that fear those that wield magic powers.</span></span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Declan tipped the limo driver, and couldn't believe how much the driver resembled a toad or frog. His uncle had paid for the limo. </span></span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">The Arcana Cabana sat in Old Town, on an end corner of the streets of Walnut and Oak. It was former 22 room hotel that was now converted to what some called an "Occult Shop", though that's a bit far fetched, true Declan did sell things to be considered occult, though Merida housed some books and wood carvings there too, for sale of course. Now to buy something here one had to endure a screening process, Declan made the mistake of selling a candle to Jack B. Nimble and the waterfront nearly burned to the ground when "Jumping" Jack B. Nimble tipped over the candle...Declan had failed to check the candle which had been a Roman candle...designed to burn brightly and for long periods of time. Merlin had laughed about it, but was not happy at the time. </span></span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">During Declan's time in the vase, the shop was run by one could call him a butler, but probably wasn't the wisest thing to do, as this dwarf lived up to his name in being Grumpy, though he did have a soft side rarely seen, save by those closest to him. Merlin had tasked the dwarf to be Declan's voice of reason at times, especially after what Wendy had done to him...controlling the former apprentice's temper was hard, but Grumpy was up to the task. </span></span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">There were other residents there at the Arcana Cabana, as well, while the bottom floor was all the books, trinkets, wood carvings, and other odds and ends; the upper floors were various things, the building was four floors, Declan lived on the fourth floor, it housed his bedroom, living room, and an office type room---all of it luxurious within means. The second floor housed what some would call a museum, it housed various objects from Norse runes to the famed stone that Excalibur was pulled from. The third floor was were Grumpy and the other residents lived.</span></span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Though it was the basement that was of most interest. This was an Arcanum, a place where Declan would conduct his studies and often where he took messages asking for assistance...like Hercules, Declan was performing some labors to cleanse himself for some wrongs...one of them being Wendy Darling...he couldn't wait to clear that off, he could not believe how he'd allowed himself to be used like that...as if that thing with Elsa wasn't bad enough...</span></span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00">"Just look at you boy! What in the diamond mines happened to you?"</span></span></span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff">"Oh I got into a scrape with Peter, then got locked in that famed Chinese Spirit Urn..."</span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00">"Well let's get you cleaned up boy, would you like Chef to make you something to eat? You look like you've not eaten in 10 years...you're all skin and bone boy!"</span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff">"I've not eaten in 10 years Grumpy...you know I've been locked away."</span></span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00">"Be that as it may, you've still got those labors to do now that you're back, now sit still this is going to sting a bit!"</span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">The dwarf let the former apprentice to an easy chair taking care not to get blood on it as it was the dwarf's favorite chair, the one he'd sit in and read the paper or his books or just watch TV. This was nothing new to Grumpy as he'd been patching Declan up since the boy was 8. He wasn't kidding about the sting of the ointments and other healing alchemy that was used here. Sure one could go to the hospital like in a city known to them, but there were some old ways that were better, leave it to the fey to be excellent in the healing craft. </span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00">"He sliced you good boy, good news is you won't need stitches, looks like you'll get the golden needle another day. What's this this one on your side here? Is that from Peter's girl?"</span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Declan could only nod at that.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00">"Well, good thing it wasn't your back wasn't it? Though figuratively that's what she did...hold still while I take care of that."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Grumpy knew all too well what had happened and that Declan didn't want to speak of it, that was fine but sooner or later he was going to have to confront her and Peter, but not today, it was only lunch time and he'd just gotten out of a 10 year stint in a vase because of Peter.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff">"How many more labors do I have left?"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00">"You did three, you've got nine more, though I think you should have gotten credit for that business you helped my friend Doc with."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Declan could only shake his head as Grumpy cleared away the wound from Wendy's golden dagger. The scar faded under the mushroom powder the dwarf had gotten from someone called The Caterpillar, who dealt in these sorts of things as well as other types of drugs. Getting this mushroom powder was only something those rehearsed in alchemy knew about. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">This was another area the former apprentice didn't know, it was forbidden for non-druids or non-fey to have knowledge of it. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00">"All done, let's get you fed, now leave those bandages in place for three days."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Declan nodded as he headed into the kitchen area.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff9999">"Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork! bork!"<br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Declan had forgotten to duck when the wooden spoons when flying and they hit him dead center the chest and then hit the Danish coat of arms in the dining area. The chef looked as if he'd seen a ghost, though he was overjoyed.</span></span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff9999">"Decluon! Su greet tu see-a yuou, vhet cuon I get yuou tu iet?"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff9999"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">While training with his uncle in the harsh Scandinavian winters, Declan had encountered this chef in Sweden and hired him on as a personal chef for himself. The chef was quite talented, though unorthodox, the food was still the best out there. He always found the doughnut method interesting, the chef would take the dough throw it into the air, then blast a hole in it using a blunderbuss or other type of fire arm, then cook the doughnuts. There were other means there too and Declan truly appreciated the chef's affectionate attempts to recreate his step mother Eleanor's cooking. The chef was given anything he requested by Declan and usually only took a few days off, which Declan would usually go to Polly's down the street and eat. One of the saving graces is Declan didn't speak Swedish, but he could communicate with the chef who understood it. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff">"Would love a Swedish meatball sub if you don't mind."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff9999">"One-a Svedeesh meet bell suob cumeeng up!"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff9999"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff9999"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Declan remembered to duck this time after the wooden spoons went flying, his resident chef was happy to have him home clearly, and set about to his task, while Grumpy helped Declan down to his Arcanum so he could review his labors he still had to do.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff9999"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff9999"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">The room was as he left it, beautifully decorated, and comfortable. The side room he used to practice his magic use and meditate as needed. His desk was exactly as one would expect a wizard/sorcerer's to be, candles, a skull, several rune stones, a small stack of books, a dagger or atheme, a wand, and one of his guardian gargoyles. He kept all his mail from Mayor White in the skull's mouth and decided to look it over. Nothing major of interest except an invitation to the Violet Moon party being held to celebrate the end of the summer...great a formal event he had to attend...and him with no date.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff9999"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#80ff00"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0000ff"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff9999"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">It was then he noticed a summons from Mayor White regarding something that would count against his labors...Peter would have to go on the back burner for now...another hot head a revealed himself, the only thing he could gather was the blood red "A"...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/>
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