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this time.”
    “Yes, sir,” I said with a nod as I moved down
and grabbed a piece of bread. I grabbed a mug of water and made my
way to the empty table and sat down.
    “Marin, come sit with us,” Micah said from
the table we usually sat at.
    “No thanks,” I said and then turned away from
everyone and ate my food.
    “You can’t stay mad at her forever,” Micah
said to Favian, “Don’t make her eat alone.”
    “She makes her own choices,” Favian said
angrily.
    “You two are so stubborn,” Micah
complained.
    Lucias and Lucian sat down at my table with
duplicate green-skinned, sharp toothed smiles. They were identical
twin goblins who always tried to confuse people on who was who and
most of the time they succeeded. Luckily I had figured out the one
difference between the two and was able to identify them. “Hello
Lucian,” I said to the one on the right with the slightly larger
ears. “Hello Lucias,” I said to the one on the left.
    “She always gets it right,” Lucian
complained, “It’s no fun.”
    Lucias smiled. “We come bearing gifts.”
    That made me very suspicious. Goblins did not
bear gifts freely. “What’s the catch?”
    “No catch,” they said in unison.
    I folded my arms across my chest. “There’s
always a catch.”
    Lucian said, “We see the elf is angry and
you’re not speaking and we see the bruises and burns. Plus, you’re
the only one who knows us apart and we appreciate it so we want to
be friendly and give you a gift. No catch.”
    “Here,” Lucias said as he slid a leather
pouch across the table. “It has healing medicine and pain relief in
it.”
    “No catch?” I asked again.
    They smiled and Lucias said, “You’re nice and
we like nice people. No catch.”
    I took the pouch and smiled at them. “Thank
you.”
    “You’re welcome,” they said in unison and
then stood up and walked out of the building. How did it not bother
them to speak in unison? I would be slapping my sibling if they
tried that with me. Not that I had any siblings, but if I did, I
wouldn’t let them mimic me.
    After finishing my food I limped out of the
food hall to my dorm and collapsed onto my bed. I needed to put the
medicines the goblin twins had given me on, but I was too exhausted
to move anymore. Someone knocked on my door and I groaned. Couldn’t
I get ten minutes of peace?
    “Enter,” I called our, refusing to get up and
go to the door. Favian stepped inside and I glared at him.
“Exit.”
    He shut the door behind him and sat down on
the bed beside me. “What did the goblins want with you?”
    “To barter for my body for a night of
pleasure,” I said angrily. “Get out of my dorm.” I tried to sit up,
but every movement hurt and I gave up.
    “What did they really want?” he asked.
    “Are you listening to me? I want you to
leave,” I said, this time using my anger to force myself up. I
started to walk to the door, but he grabbed my forearm to stop me.
My burns and bruises made me yell out in pain and drop to my
knees.
    “Why didn’t you tell me you were in so much
pain?” he asked angrily as he released me and began inspecting my
wounds.
    I slapped his hands away and used the bed to
stand up. “Get out. I don’t want to see you.”
    He growled angrily and stood up. “Fine, don’t
tell me what they wanted. I’ll go talk to them myself.”
    I turned my back to him and opened the
leather pouch the goblins had given me. Inside was the healing
medicine in a small wooden tube and the pain reliever in a clear
container. My door opened and closed as Favian left and I was alone
again. I opened the healing medicine and spread it onto one burn,
holding my breath to see if it would sting or not. Surprisingly it
didn’t sting and it gave me immediate relief. I stripped out of my
clothes and spread the medicine everywhere I had bruises and burns
and then put a small amount of the white powder pain reliever on my
tongue and let it dissolve. My pain vanished and I felt