BSides: Always A Woman

Time from some D&D… I know you’re going whaaaaaaat?

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Always a Woman is a part of the B Side series that will be put into a compilation at some point and probably shipped off to attempt to Query at some point.

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I. The Party

The first time Dorrim sang the song, I was standing on an ogre.

Rain had turned the King’s Road into a trench of mud and broken wagon parts. The kind of rain that doesn’t fall so much as occupy, a thick gray curtain that had been hanging over the Greenvale since dawn and showed no interest in moving. The merchant cart leaned half in the ditch with one wheel spinning slowly, its axle snapped at the joint, the canvas cover torn open and spilling bolts of dyed linen into the muck like the entrails of something expensive. Brother Cal knelt beside the teamster with blood soaking through his sleeve …