Snuff's Kodo Stew

“Eat something.”

Ito slid the large steaming bowl of Kodo Stew across the long,

dark wooden dining table at Snuff’s Retreat until it stopped with a

spin in front of Tazeria.

“No.” Came the response, barely audible in the large room. Taz never looked up at her friend. Tazeria had all her blades laid out on the huge table, a table built for a banquet grouping for a king.

Snuff’s dining hall was high walled and woodsy. Thick, dark Oakwuld beams used for cross-timbers graced the high pointed A- frame ceiling. The west wall of the large room was beautifully designed with half -a –dozen, floor- to- ceiling arched windows, the paned glass had been cut at the top to reflect tiny colored diamond prisms across the table during the daily sunset. Dark Ebon framed paintings of various ancestors and battle victories hung on the north and south walls, which were painted a deep, royal red. The east wall had a grand entryway where two traditionally armored Druid statues stood to guard and greet occupants entering this hall, and appearing as noble in stoic stance, as they would have been had they been alive.

“Flame it all Taz! I said EAT SOMETHING…..it’s been THREE days.” Ito was becoming irritated- that was a simple fact and was more than evident in his tone of voice. He turned to look at ‘Bree for help in convincing their friend that she really needed some food only to find the slightly inebriated elf sitting by the firelight, stringing her newly acquired, dried Orc ears onto a carefully knotted mistyreed strand, and not looking one bit in his direction. A fast burst of air hissed between his fine white teeth and he slapped his hands on his thigh in exasperation.

“I wouldn’t keep poking that dragon Ito, if I were you. You’re liable to lose a kidney or perhaps an eye…. but we can only hope.”

“You shut up!” Ito snapped back at Bree.

“No, you.” Bree’s lip curled into a half smile.

Bree kept one eye on her project, and the other sharply, however discreetly, directly on Tazeria. Truth be known, she had never seen the rogue more deadly than she was these last three days since the battle at the Black Temple, and harbored a bit of inner concern for her sister in arms. Perhaps for the first time since they had become friends, ‘Bree was wary Taz was losing her grip and poised herself to any action Taz may surprise them with…. positive or negative, ‘Bree was on full-scale alert, of course no one knew that, but ‘Bree was quite conscious of the need for her hyper- awareness.

“Eat it Taz”, Ito pressed.

“I SAID… NO!…. Please don’t ask me again. Besides that’s Horde food. Where the heck did Snuff get Kodo meat from?” Taz finally looked Ito in the face with a question in her eye.