<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=12427.msg510823#msg510823">Quote from: Swedish Steel on 19-01-2008, 12:13:42</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>Garashna</strong><br/><br/>Garashna made her way out of the water. It sure was cold! She heard a noice up at the river bank, she didn't have to look to know who it was. Her constant shadow.<br/>A few years earlier one of the sows had gone crazy and killed all of her young piglets, save one. Garashna had bottle fed the poor little fellow, and had managed to save it. After that he had started following her around, to her kin's amusement. More loyal and obedient than a dog, he had proved to be, even now when he was full grown and should've been as foultempered as any male Bristleback Boar. They way he followed her around, even at times like this when he should have been locked up, was a bit embarassing for Garashna. She didn't like when people laughed at her. But she loved the little guy, even though he wasn't very little these days. Her friends knew that her irritation with the pig was just for show.<br/>As Garashna walked towards the inn, the boar pattered along beside her. If Garashna had any regrets, it was allowing G'tchinka's first born to Name the pig. It was how he had ended up with the name "Piggywiggysnufflehog". It would have been unbelivably rude to reName the first thing the child had ever Named, so the boar was stuck with it. To bad, such a clever creature should have worthy Name, that was Garashna's firm belief.<br/>She could see the inn now, it seemed to have been some sort of commotion. Her heart sank, she bet she knew who'd been involved.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"You took your time...."<br/>Without even looking in the direction of the huge boar, Garashna spoke as she reached the bank and began to wring the water from the hem of her dress.<br/>Knowing full well, that it would have lifted it's head and turned at the sound of her voice, his little black eyes fixed on her, his ears twitching at every sound that she uttered, she had no need to see what he was doing.<br/>"Was that bolt too hard for you to lift...."<br/>She turned her head to glare at the bristleback.<br/>"Or did my brothers think it would be fun to let you out again?"<br/><br/>Piggywiggysnufflehog, or Snuff as Garashna now chose to call him, looked up at her as if the feign innocence. His left ear flicking at some unseen insect, he dropped onto his hauches and looked at her, before snorting out a huge sneeze.<br/>"Hmmmm....I knew it....my brothers...I swear they will end up as your breakfast one day...."<br/><br/>Shaking the creases out of her dress, she hitched it up to her knees again, so that it wouldn't get dirty, then turned back towards the track that lead to the village.<br/>"Yes you can come....but you're going to wait for me outside...you got that?"<br/><br/>Snuff gave a grunt in reply, standing up, he shook himself and followed two paces behind....<br/><br/><br/><br/>Shushing Snuff, Garashna had easily slipped past the gate, even a boar knew when to be furtive and quiet when it called for it. He too had been on the receiving end of a sharp kick or two, only the words of Garashna, his 'mother' stopping him from tearing a chunk out of the attackers leg.<br/>The two of them stood outside the tavern door, listening to what was going on inside, Garashna's lips curled into a smile as she heard the bawdy song Ari sang.<br/>It was like a signal, for her to be cautious, when she arrived, Ari rarely sang such things unless those inside were in need of distraction and that usually meant that there had been problems shortly before.<br/><br/>Signalling for Snuff to lay down and wait for her, she carefully opened the door and slid into the tavern. Keeping her head down, Garashna slipped onto the bench at the table just behind where her friend stood singing and sat patiently for her to finish the last verse....<br/><br/><br/>