"There are people that find you in the course of life: some that bring gladness and promise and some that bring illness and dread. They are each inevitable, but the course of exploiting the blessing and evading the curse lies with the prudence of the fate-bearer."
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Talindyne's Cafeteria,
The City of Descandville,
The Kingdom of Hyll-Decanta,
Fair Morning,
Second Tuesday of the Second month,
Fiftieth Year of the Reign of Adon Vericus IV
Imogen was completely engaged, attending to various customers that ushered into the establishment like a rising and untimely tide. Amidst the process of waiting on every occupied table, she needed also to cast a particular care on Aldric's presence, for her brother had left word with her that morning that there was much reason to keep the child safe and without unwarranted attention.