'You should be careful about me getting water,' Talaysen called out to the gypsies as he went down the riverbank to fetch more water for his friends. Talaysen, or Wren as he was know to the outside world, was a guild bard that had given it all away when he had found out how cruel the guild was to anyone except their own. Now he was one of the most famous free bards and was traveling to a nearby fair. There was also a wedding that he had been invited to play at there.
As Talaysen filled up his bucket with water, he noticed something in it and pulled it out. It was gold hair. He searched the bank to see if there was anything else. There was. He picked up more hair and some bones from the back. They probably weren't from the same thing since the bones were too small. They were mostly likely from a deer or something. Talaysen had fallen on hard times and wasn't about to give up something that seemed like it was from the gods so he got all he could and headed back to the caravans.
'Where's our water, Wren?' one of the gypsies asked.
'If you want some water, get it yourself,' Talaysen answered, to caught up in his prize to elaborate. The some of gypsies grumbled but the rest just laughed. That's how Talaysen was.
When Talaysen got to the caravan he was living in, he dumped his treasures and careful began to make a harp. Now he knew what he would play at the wedding.
Author's note: Talaysen is a real character. He's from Mercedes Lackey's Free Bards series and I love him too much to not use him when I can. He's the only one that's from another book, though. I just think it would be funny to have him be the minstrel when in Lark and Wren they are discussing this story. Next chapter will most likely be the last. Please R/R.