Library: My return

This is a tale about my weird experience, as a bored elf merchant. For many years I had gone through the world in search of materials I would need in my work. It had become boring in the last ones, as I felt like I could be much more, if I'd just get the chance. Like for so many weeks before, this particular week I kept a one day free from my normal activities, and headed to the Rusty Shields bar, to drink my ass off with cheap drinks. I started with few Scharlachberg Meisterbrands, moved on the list and the last thing I remember from the bar was drinking the last drops of my can of Carlsberg Guld-Export. Next thing I remember I'm wandering around Arelium, drunk as a skunk. I found myself sitting next to a farmer, who begged me to help him. Efrine asks 'Could someone please help me?' Efrine says 'This is my first time here...' Efrine exclaims 'I bet Arelium is full of heroes!' Efrine asks 'Are you a hero?' I started to laugh, maybe he would believe I'm a hero as he was apparently not from the city, and might not know the differences in fighters and other folk. I answered him, trying to hide my drunken state: "Of course I'm a hero! What do you want me to do?" Efrine exclaims 'Oh yes! I really need help with this problem I have. It is more like a quest!' Nice, I love queshs....quests that is! Efrine says 'I have been sent here by my parents to find a valiant hero who could help us defeat a wolf which has been harassing us. Now I need to find someone who accepts such a dangerous job.' After I got him to believe I could be the hero he needed, he gave me a map. The farmers had put a carcass as bait, so I had to find it and wait for the wolf. I had some troubles reading the map, and walking straight, but I was determined to be a hero. After some hiking I found the carcass and sat down next to it. I remembered a song I had heard, that would lure pixies nearby to bring me food and drinks. I started singing, and in no time a pack of pixies ran and brought me some bread and chicken, and of course some pixie-ale. I drank the ale, sang some more and drank some more. I hadn't seen the wolf so I thought I could take a small nap, closed my eyes and passed out. As I woke up, I felt the world colder, and myself more resistant to the evil flows of the world. Something had definitely changed. I felt somehow lighter, like I would've spent my entire life wearing thick clothes, and now I would've tossed them away. I lifted my head a bit to see where I was. I saw a figure near by, watching me, waiting for me to do something. As the figure walked closer, I noticed he was little smaller than an average man and he was wearing dark robes. He walked next to me and asked: "Are you strong enough to stand up?" "I think so.", I answered with a weak voice. I tried to get up. When I took support from the ground to get up, I noticed my hands and looked at my body. I realized what the lighter feeling was all about. All the flesh from my body had disappeared, and there were only bones left. At first I was scared and confused of my current state, but soon I realized this might be the change I had been hoping for. The drow noticed I started to calm down, offered me a hand and pulled me up. "What happened?", I asked. I was walking towards the city, when I saw a wolf having a feast on your body. I charged the wolf and killed it, but your body was too damaged and eaten to be saved, so I thought to try something unusual. And there you have the results. "Oh....well..thank you, I guess.", I was still a bit shaky with my legs without muscles or skin. The drow continued: "Of course my services aren't completely free, as I need to feed myself too. I'm obliged to ask ten thousand gold coins from you, or I have to cancel your new life.". It didn't feel like too much for continuing my life, even if in a different form, so I paid the price. I didn't want to go back to my old trade, so I took a slightly different path in my life. Tried my best to forget the calm way of ascending rank and start a fighters life, killing evil in the world. And of course, by getting more valuable artifacts into my possession. I still remembered how I enjoyed singing, while doing the painful tasks in my old life, so I decided to continue it in this one. Maybe learn some new songs and learn to sing the old ones better, with more power in them. And that's what I've been doing ever since, singing my way into battle with fellow fighters, helping the weak and desperate.

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