Hunting with the Barbarians

Either Legg trusted Leguna and his fellow envoys, or he was just careless, Leguna decided. He'd had them all housed just a couple tents down from his own personal one! Leguna didn't really mind that much, really. It let him monitor the barbarian easily and made scheming much harder. He supposed Legg might be thinking the same thing.

He'd prepared himself for the worst when it came to accommodation, but he'd not done enough. He couldn't have drawn a shorter stick... well, maybe he could have, but only by the tiniest margin.

It was one thing for the place to leak air everywhere, but another for it to not even have a warm blanket. Forget about it being new, he would have been fine with the old rag they'd given him, if at least they'd cleaned it first. Hell, he could even have lived with it being dirty -- having been an orphan for most of his childhood -- if only it could at least keep some of the cold out, but it could not even do that. And damn was it dirty. He was certain...

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