Around St Loomis area, one might hear through the grapevine:
"A few foreigners seem to have been making inroads with the locals, as even hard-and-godfearing Otty Smythe has softened towards a couple heathens who expressed concern for his injuries after a mining accident. That old woman who works at the clinic, Froozy? You heard she donated food to the poor through the cathedral...? Heathen food, certainly, but it can't be too hexed if they were offering it through the priests, can it? And the Ill-dur boy? He follows the New Song, if you can believe that he's not one of them Alisaydes. And that beastly Lioness was even talking to the Mistwatch for quite a while, it's known..."
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