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"It depends upon what you mean by 'worked out'. The boy survived, the doctor's purse was full and I performed extra duties for a year, but my wife was happy. So: did it work out?"

"It sounds like it."

"Aye it worked out so well we had another." Gregor laughed with a grunt. "Family life is an interesting life is it not? We punish our selves, regroup, and then go running back for more. There's something there, something we humans look for I think."

"Try telling that to my friends without a mate."

"They will learn in time I think, or they will find it elsewhere, in the job, in the public, and sometimes down at the Inn. But we all reach for it in some ways I think."

"Aye."

"Now you were correct, I should get some rest. It's almost time for the second watch and I'm still awake. In the morrow Antio."

"In the morrow Censor." Antio said as he faded off into the darkness untouched by the fire.