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The e indeed Alcohol diister all the facts about his current situation He felt light, floating, and felt a burning in his chest

Wulfgar clenched his fistthe front of thechest hairs from their roots in the process With just that one arm the barbarian easily held the two hundred pound ate the crowd in the Cutlass, hethis roundabout route previously he had h aor a wall-but Aru to take the cost of dalecould cost the barbarian a few bottles, and if the fraht not find any drink for a week

The ed to find sonition of the bouncer and of his present predicament at last showed on his face "Hey!" he co, flat out in the air, ar He landed facedown in the on would have run him over had not a couple of passersby taken pity on the poor slob and dragged hi the rest of his coins from him in the process

"Fifteen feet," Josi Puddles said to Aruht "And with just one ar the bar and pretending that he was hardly aar, the barbarian had made many such throws

"Everyabout that," Josi added, the tone of his voice soher every night this week"

Arumn understood the perceptiveorder in Luskan’s underbelly that resisted intrusion As Wulfgar’s reputation continued to grow, so order would find their own reputations at stake and would filter in to e

"You like the barbarian," Josi stated as e ned nod Hiring Wulfgar had been a reat pains to avoid any personal relationships with his bouncers- since many of those men, drifters by nature, either wandered away of their own accord or angered the wrong thug and wound up dead at Aruh, the barkeep had lost soether when the Cutlass was quiet, Wulfgar drinking at the bar, Aru the place for the next day’s business, had becoar’s companionship He discovered that once the drink was in the hts they stayed together until the dawn, Aruid northland, of Icewind Dale, and of friends and enemies alike that made the barkeep’s hair stand up on the back of his neck Arumn had heard the story of Akar Kessel and the crystal shard so many times that he could almost picture the avalanche at Kelvin’s Cairn that took down the wizard and buried the ancient and evil relic

And every tiar recounted tales of the dark tunnels under the dwarven kingdo of the dark elves, Aru under his blankets, as he had when he was a child and his father had told him similarly dark stories by the hearth

Indeed, Arumn Gardpeck had come to like his newest employee more than he should and less than he would

"Then cal in Morik the Rogue and Tree Block Breaker anytiht and didn’t disagree Particularly concerning Tree Block Morik the Rogue, he kneould be a bit erous), would spend weeks, evenhis hest human-if he even was human, for many stories said that he had re, blood in hiar," the barkeep called

The big h the crowd to stand opposite Arumn

"Did ye have to throw him out?" Aruar replied absently "Delly wanted hiaze across the rooh not yet past her twentieth birthday, she had worked in the Cutlass for several years She was a wisp of a thing, barely five feet tall and so slender that h it waselven spirits, Aru untrimmed and unkeo lost their soft innocence and taken on a harder edge, and her pale skin had not seen enough of the sun in years, nor proper nutrition, and was now dry and rough Her step had replaced the bounce of youth with the caution of a woman often hunted But still there remained a charm about Delly, a sensual wickedness that many of the patrons, particularly after a few drinks, found too te everyDelly’s bottom, I’ll have no patrons left within the week," Arumn said dryly

"Just push thear offered no response, not even a change of expression "Ye don’t have to be throwing them halfway to Waterdeep" Hethat he was done with the barbarian

Wulfgar walked away, back to his duties sifting through the boisterous bunch

Within an hour anotherfrom his nose and mouth, took the aerial route, this time a two-handed toss that put hiar held up his shirt, revealing the jagged line of deep scars "Hadthe words It had takenhim to a level of coht with the yochlol, the fight that had brought him to Lolth, and she to Errtu for his years of torht chuckle "But thison the bar a couple of feet away

"Prettiest hammer I’ve ever seen," re at Wulfgar as his hand inched in, for he, like all the others, had no desire to anger the frightfully dangerous , his sole link to his past life, wasn’t even watching His recounting of the yochlol fight had sent his thoughts and his heart careening back across the years, had locked hi hell

"And how it hurt," he said softly, voice quavering, one hand subconsciously running the length of the scar