Thire got up from where he had been lying, and shook himself. He ached all over. That had been one hell of a beating, he could feel every muscle in his body screaming. Just because he was an illegitimate offspring of the most notorious lecher in Evelon! He hadn't really cared when the kid called him a bastard, but he had lost his mother only last week, and for the kid to call her a whore... It had been too much to bear. So he had lashed out, and paid the price, for that kid was bigger and stronger, and hit a hell of a lot harder... Oh yeah. And he had friends to help him.
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