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About Demons, No. 3 extract

So here Lordel Master Edrulain Safaël-fighter-and-promising young magician who find themselves (and I know only Lokar how) aboard a merchant ship rahajidan. The Rahajidans, for those who do not know, are a nation of sailors and merchants peaceful, soft and sensual, friends of almost everyone in the Foland sangrelins-except, of course-. It
Safaël speaking.

I could not open my eyes when I returned to reality. However, I heard the exchange Lordel with that was to be the boss of the ship.

- Let us be clear, my friend edrulain, I am struck place immediately and that my mother curse me if the idea is to deliver just touches me, but you know like me that Verougues eventually learn that I've collected. I'm not a skilled tradesman at the point of going to their island to try to sell them something, but I do good business in Milil.

- Do not rescue a castaway's laws prohibit the sea.

- A shipwrecked boat, yes. This applies happens to the doors fly? Listen to me: if I had left running, nobody would have ever known. I grant I could not, you and your friend let you die as well. But flying to your aid will get into trouble. The Verougues will know that I've helped, cunning as they are. I see big trouble, very big trouble, ...

- this is not true.

- What if! The hassle will be raining on me and my poor boat as the Volga in winter snow. I could no longer trade. Without trade, no money. Miserable without money, how to pay my crew? How to feed my poor? How this form to offer the family of my future wife? Come to your aid, friend edrulain is planting a dagger in my hand that has treated your friend.

- let it flow We'd have eaten overwhelmed with shame. You people Rahajidans, the nicest of people are Foland. T'épancher in a tavern, say the evil that eats away your soul one day you would have. The ears of mine that came. Edrulains and, although the best trackers are Verougues.

- For my poor mother, what misery! Me, Al-Shar Shamid, hapless merchant traveler, I am I condemned to the worst misery in doing my duty as a man and sea?

- Friendly Edrulains you will now.

- This is great, but it does not feed me, nor I, nor my crew, neither my family nor my poor nor the poor wives and the poor children of my sailors. What a misfortune!

- what do you expect from me?

- I do not want a reward for simply doing my duty. But a simple, a miserable compensation for repairing damage that infinite will come to your aid.

- What do you want?

- Three times nothing. Some of the miserable wine barrels Donlor. An old boat that I could cash in for a few coins. Two dozen small arcs as yours. Or maybe you have a sister as beautiful as you are big and strong that I could bring happiness or will he one of my brothers or cousins. Almost nothing ...

- On Libreterre our wives prefer to stay. Sell ours we do not. My sister, bigger and stronger than me also, is very happy where she lives with her seven children. The manufacture of our bows keep the secret which we have done this elf. Monopoly Wine Trade dwarfs our brothers have since the war of liberation.

- So a boat?

- For water we have left? It is very expensive.

- You make me plunge into poverty and you deny me this little compensation? You really have a heart of stone.

The merchant began to cry.

- Misery, misery, misery! Me, Shar el-Shamid, honest, kind, loyal, nice, so nice, modest, so modest, what have I done to suffer such a fate for misfortune!

Lordel sighed.

- Your boat, you will. On my soul, the oath worry.

- You're more than my brother, friend Edrulain. I will praise your name until the end of my days, the children that one day I will praise thy name, and my children's children will praise your name and so on until the seventh generation of my descendants! My house is your house, my wife will be your wife, your mother will like my mother, your children like my children! Blessed is the day we met! It is true that some good is always rewarded!

Yes, there is a cameo of an Al-Shar Shamid in the Ballad of Fronin. Remember, to Beauxmats the sunset! It pleases me to see it again here, it saves me having to invent a name and it can lead to a funny encounter later in the book-or no-