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"Only a woman?" he scoffed, and flicked his ear to dismiss her modesty. If he'd told any of the girls he'd known that they were only a woman, they'd have raked his ears and kicked his butt to Timbuktu. "I've known plenty a woman with more balls than lots of the guys I've met," he said, "and more brain, for that matter. Don't sell yourself short, love."

He watched her with gilded eyes, half-lidded, as she appraised him with jadestone. He'd never heard of this Moonspear Village. Her name, though foreign, was at least easy to pronounce. "Tuathal Blackthorn," he returned. Of nowhere, he often finished, but today he had a new title to add. Might've puffed his chest out, too, if he'd been more dramatic, but that'd always been Ceara's job and he had very little flair to give, "of Neverwinter Forest."