Coskurt, 28 Stillspring

Why do I pick up strays?
 
It was certainly an interesting couple of days. When I got to Coskurt yesterday, I stopped at a tavern... the Rat and Something or other. I'm staying there, its cheap and all that but anyway it was a weird vibe for the afternoon, bunch of just rowdy and angry people, complaining about something work related? I don't know. Anyway, this half-orc girl walked in, took a look around, and just walked right out and she looked so upset that I sorta had to go after her.
 
I don't know why I do stuff like that, but she was such a big person and then looked so small.
 
Okay, yeah, she's big and strong and

She actually really reminds me of Lineke a bit.
 
Anyway, her name's Morkella, she has a twin brother, she's planning on going to gods damned Rar'tia to look for her missing dad, I can't go back to my little sister or my own brothers. And I don't know... I feel responsible for her in a weird way.
 
Not that she can't take care of herself okay. We bummed around last night and I sort of showed her how to hang out in a town, just catching some buskers and people watching and stuff, and this morning we met for breakfast and checked out the notice board. Two jobs, one that I think has to do with those standing stones and another that was a kidnapping thing. We picked 'em both up and went to the guard captain and some giant Orc lady representing the rich folks whose kid got snatched. Turned out to be like a family squabble, so we walked out into the woods and tried to talk this batty old lady into just handing the kid over.
 
Then she sent a swarm of ravens at me and started slamming Morkella with Thunderclaps. Morkella barely blinked, it was pretty impressive, and she carved the old bat up pretty good but we didn't kill her. She's going to be hurting real bad when she wakes up but we did our best to keep her from dying. She could have just given up, you know? Why can't people just know when they're beat?
 
So, yeah, that happened and tomorrow we're meeting up with some superguard to show them where these standing stones are. Because I remembered where I've seen those runes before. It's that same cult of Drotha, They're bad news, like, Sentient sacrifice bad news.
 
I should try to sleep.