Black Bulls

Welcome Traveller. Come, sit by the fire, rest your weary bones. Pray thee tell me a story and I'll tell you mine.

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Ah, I see you are a person of integrity. You have travelled far and have come such a distance to try and find a home. We too have been wandering for many years to find the same thing. We have all been Tarnished over the years by others, ourselves, by nature itself. We may be old and others may have passed us by but we have come so far that we cannot quit, we must continue onward towards the next light, the new beginning, the land of dreams we all want. We will never stop in our quest to be worthy of the hard work we and others have put into us and we must strive to be stronger, to not stop until we are the best we can be.

I see that you feel the same Traveller. You are welcome here for as long as you wish. Perhaps one day you will see us as your family, perhaps one day we will achieve our goals. It may not be tomorrow, it may take years, but we build one brick and one stick at a time until we get there. We are all Tarnished.