<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">"The Comedian"<br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff"><span style="font-size: 15px"><i>It had been a wonderful evening at the beach house.  Toby didn't have any living relatives and his deceased wife's family hadn't been in touch for years, but Thalia's (<a class="username" data-user-id="3673" data-username="@ashleydanielle" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/3673/">@ashleydanielle</a>) sisters and Dionysus were there and they all adored </i></span></span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(153, 204, 255)"><span style="font-size: 15px"><i>Chári, his and Thalia's new baby girl.</i><br/>
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<i>Also, Toby's body was now like it used to be when he was twenty-five.  Thalia missed the big overweight panda bear of his older body, but she was compensated by his rediscovered energy, for their daughter, and in the bedroom.  </i><br/>
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<i>After the guests had gone, the family went out onto their seafront porch.  Toby's arm around Thalia, one of her arms behind his back and the other arm holding </i></span></span></span><i><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(153, 204, 255)">Chári.  Countless stars shined from above....<br/>
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It was getting warm and hard to breathe....<br/>
</span></span></span></i><br/><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(153, 204, 255)">Toby pulled himself out of his dream to find that the house was on fire!  He saw that Cassie (<a class="username" data-user-id="6169" data-username="@Purplefairydust" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/6169/">@Purplefairydust</a>) had backed into a corner, obviously frightened.  She had probably just awoken, too.<br/>
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As quickly as he could, he jostled Carla (<a class="username" data-user-id="2453" data-username="@Zulma" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/2453/">@Zulma</a>) and Josey (<a class="username" data-user-id="5865" data-username="@Josey" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/5865/">@Josey</a>) to a point where they were waking up.<br/>
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Toby picked up the unconscious body of their host.  He'd seen where the Fae had hid it's treasure.  He jerked his head in the direction of the stash and shouted to Cassie, "Grab the treasure!  If he lives he can reward us and if he dies we'll call it salvage!"<br/>
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Toby went to the door and managed the lock.  Shielding the Fae, he threw his weight against it and found himself in the burning clearing.   They could escape the from the clearing but they'd all die if they stayed in a burning house!<br/>
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