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The foothills of the Khur mountains were covered by long, slightly sticky, brownish-green grass that made annoying clicking noises when the wind blew through them. That clicking noise, however, was completely covered up by the sounds of battle, as Kang faced off against a group of goblins. He turned sideways to dodge a sword with a jagged, rusty blade, and swung his battle-axe, burying it in the goblin's chest. He wasted no time in yanking it out and spinning around to cleanly behead another one that had come up behind him.

He hadn't consciously thought this particular, familiar, location up; he'd just wanted to blow off some steam. He'd had a lot on his mind since the battle had ended.

Most of that was Crucible.

Why had the bronze saved his daughter, and even let her ride on his back in battle? It made no sense to the bozak. Bronzes, like the other metallics, killed his kind.

Growling, he swung again, muttering a curse when his axe blade deflected off of the third goblin's crappy armor and swiftly bringing it back up to parry its spear. Then, he ducked and spun his tail around to knock his foe's feet from underneath him; it was dead from disembowelment before it even had a chance to get back up.

He continued without pause until all eight were corpses, and took a step back, panting from the exertion.

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"Not bad," Kang commented, adjusting quickly to the sudden lack of wind. "I have an offer for you, if you're interested. I wouldn't be asking you if I didn't trust you to keep it confidential."

He leaned back on his hands slightly, "I'd like for you to join my spy group."

Aibghalien nodded thoughtfully. He had no moral recriminations or whatnot about espionage in general; one could not rule effectively without information, even as a moral and upstanding sort. Of course, some spy networks had less-savory duties as well...

"What are the responsibilities of membership?"

Kang shrugged, "Go when ordered, which won't be often, and report back to me. I only want information on crew members that are suspicious, or during missions; it's to ensure that we're not caught completely by surprise as often. We've had a few instances where we could have done something sooner or stopped it completely if we'd just known."

Besides, he had the tavern for the regular gossip and news.

"Purely informational, then." No need to ponder further; he had already analyzed the situation quite comprehensively. "Certainly I'll join."

"I was hoping you'd say that," Kang grinned. "And, I'll be needing your services very soon. We'll be having the Daligig as guests, and I don't know about you, but I don't trust them all that much; there are too many unanswered questions."

"Agreed," the wizard said, but with a frown. "I can tell you one thing of interest now: although this ship is not comprised of any enchantment or magical creation, it is nevertheless able to sense and act against purely indirect magic referencing it. Are you familiar with the legend lore spell?"