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[Sid]

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As Sid finished the invitation to Umbra ,he relised that Umbra was made up of people with many tastes and this posed a problem serving them dinner.The moment arrived and the guests were showing up.Ellana just got her clothes on,Sid smiled "she will be a tasty treat for those who may like some elfen blood and she had come on her on accord.The guests were all seated with the table at full ,Tati began the first course, salad he thought "this should be interesting" some ate some didn't but when the stew came most did eat,with wine .ale and water being served ,Tati approached the Matriarch and offered some of her blood mixed with wine,which was accepted, Sid noticed Elric was looking on with some interest and he sent the young feamale elf over to see if he wanted a taste,after pausing He decided he could try to be carefull enough not to kill her.She offered her hand and he took her neck.Sid was carefully observing his guests and noticed an Umbran playing with fire and offered it to Isk and lit his pipe ,the blue smoke coming from his pipe seemed to have a pleasant aroma,The young Elf server was still trying to get attention by encouraging the guests to watch her slither around in her suductive ways.With the dinner course coming to the end ,more drinks were served of which some of it was blood.Sid stands up and gets everyones attention and tells his guests about his quest (1) as he looked to the people at the table "what is the riddle of steel?" he says and continues on "you cannot trust things of the flesh ,but steel in your hand you can trust" he takes a sips of wine and *sighs* "but that was not the answer" and then Sid motioned for Ceinwyn to join him offering his hand to her,she got up slowly and joined him.Sid leads her to a bare spot on the floor and her look up at the man on the roof,Sid motions to the man to come to him ,without thought the man steped over the edge and landed next to the dinner table in a crumpled heap ....quite dead, Sid looks at the body and looks to his guests "THAT IS POWER!.....the strenght and power of the flesh" he paused "what is steel compared to the hands that weild it?"

"that is the riddle of steel"

(1)adapted from the movie Conan the Barbarian movie and stories by Robert E. Howard and was written by
Oliver Stone and John Milius.