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[Group][Orcarella]: me too

[Group][Solace]: Night night

[Group][Orcarella]: Gn

[Group][Orcarella]: Aren’t you going to bed as well

[Group][Solace]: I’m going to fish for a bit longer and then head off

[Group][Orcarella]: kk

[Group][Orcarella]: sleep well

[Group][Solace]: you too

Drew gazed blearily at the screen. He really did have to go bed, and he’d just said goodnight about twelve times, but he felt oddly reluctant to log off, like if he did, he’d break something fragile.

After dithering for an embarrassingly long time, he typed/hug.

And was weirdly touched when Solace/huggedhim back.

Then he shut down the game, followed by his computer, and went to bed, slightly confused.

Chapter Three

A couple of nights later, Drew joined his first official raid as a member of . He arrived in good time to set up Mumble, repair his armour, make sure he had plenty of buff food and potions, and was standing outside CoT just in time to see Anni gathering across the way.

They ignored him.

Morag showed up next on a flying Halloween goat. She was a dwarven champion, with long red braids and the guild tabard discreetly covering her otherwise quite skimpy armour. She waved and invited him into a raid group.

Heurodis has joined the raid.

Ialdir has joined the raid.

Solace has joined the raid.

Jargogle has joined the raid.

Prospero has joined the raid.

Caius has joined the raid.

Ignatius has joined the raid.

Dave has joined the raid.

[Raid][Morag]: Come on guys, get your arses to Briarsdeep

[Raid][Morag]: -50DKP for anybody not here in the next 5mins

[Raid][Dave]: But we don’t use DKP1

[Raid][Morag]: But when we start, you’ll be at -50

Drew’s ears filled up with chimes as people started logging into Mumble.

“Uh, hi,” he tried.

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