Someone you may some day meet: Brom's mother raised him alone. He never knew where his father came from, or who he was, or where his father had gone; all of this his mother never told him. At the age of fifteen, he was bigger, taller, and many times stronger that his peers, but he was terribly unhappy. His mother would remind him: "Don't you fight with anyone; you'll hurt them." The other teens would taunt him, call him names such as "Fraidy Cat!" and "Chicken Liver," and hit him with sticks and stones to try and make him mad. They repeatedly stole his lunch and ran away with it. They cut in front of him in line; but he never fought back, because of his mother's admonishment... The town where he grew up was called Finaway Bluff. It had always been a good place in Toridar, but lately a group of thugs and hoods are forcing the people to condescend to their ways... The discovery Back to Arveta Table of Contents Back to Arveta List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by Abram Paradies. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com