"You!" the dwarf and theta both shouted.
"Why was I brought here?" they both then said to the wizard. Before realising that they had both said the same thing at the same time, and glowered at each other once more.
"I brought you to…" the wizard started, but suddenly theta's mind caught up with his voice.
"You should be dead!" theta shouted at the dwarf.
"And you'd know everything about that wouldn't you, Pigman!" the dwarf rebutted, barring his teeth and showing elongated canines.
"Dwarves don't live for this long naturally!"
"That's because I am not a dwarf, not anymore at least" stated the dwarf bluntly as he settled in a chair. "And neither, it seems, are you a Pigman"
"You left me for dead"
"You got in my way" the dwarf grunted at the change in conversation.
"So I could kill Nex Stilus"
"I BROUGHT YOU TO FORMALLY INTRODUCE YOU TO EACH OTHER, AND TO GET YOU TO HELP US FIGHT OFF THE MEIDEN SEI!" Yelled the wizard in a magically magnified voice, theta felt blood gushing through his ears, his eardrums had ruptured. Quickly taking a sip of the formula Hexxblade had made him to patch up his ears, he said to the dwarf.
"I am Theta Xi, son of Gamma and Psi. Zombiefied Pigman. Formerly of the nether. Formerly of Sky village. Now, wanderer as Theta" Theta recited his full name, then the dwarf opened his mouth and said
"Galion Donkey, formerly of Dwarlvhorm. Vampiric Dwarf and I too am a wanderer." The dwarf seemed a bit friendlier now that they had officially met. "So why did you and the other pigmen help Nex?
"Most had families being held captive, others had lost the will to do anything else, I found out during the middle of a zombie ambush, got infected, and like most pigmen" theta chuckled "stopped at the door…"
Theta found out that Galion had purposely mutated himself with vampire blood, found in a shrine near his home town.
"So" the wizard said "do you understand each other?"
"Yes" theta and Galion said to each other at the same time.
"You may lodge here in the city for a while, on 1 condition" the wizard's expression turned grim. "You must help us, in at least 1 mission, against the discriminative Meiden sei"
Suddenly, a hatch opened up in the roof of the underground dwelling, and a ratman jumped down.
"What news, tasselofe?" Asked the wizard of the breathless ratman, whose name was obviously tasselofe.
"A Meiden sei circus caravan!" the rat cried in a surprisingly deep voice. "It appears they have a pandan held captive!"
"I Shall go" Theta and Galion shouted at the same time again.
"Very well, but quickly!" squeaked the ratman as he scurried out of the room on all fours.
The group ran through the city to the main entrance, into a short cave and out into a desert, where they spotted the meiden sei caravan, stopped for the night.
AN/ the return of Galion! One of the main characters for this tale. It is unlikely tasselofe will be around for long, just sayin'.