prattle chatter

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Hey there,

whatcha cookin’

can I put my elbow here on your counter,

thanks a-mighty,

I’m new in town,

don’t have much cash

but that dish

sure looks delicious,

oh, roats, you say?

Never heard of those,

but it looks sorta like some typa grain from where I come from,

and these blue bits

look like peppers

but they’re

tonos, huh, interesting–

if I turn horribly sick

eating any of this,

it’s not your fault

but I’ve got a healing rune on the inside of my elbow

so if you can touch it

with my other arm

that’ll probably save me,

thanks for that

ahead of time,

you know,

I don’t actually speak your language,

I was given a gift by a mysterious deity

to understand languages

but I don’t think it gave me the gift

of safely eating whatever foods I come across–

oh, yes,

I’m sorry for scaring your other customers off

but I can work for some money,

I’m real good with healing runes

and I’m decent with fire ones–

oh, you don’t employ gray-skinned people here?

And have you ever met any to offer them employment?

No?

Well, I’ve never met any brown-skinned,

green-haired people

and I’ve never employed any either,

but fine

I’ll leave

before you start yelling,

have fun

with your cooking shack thing,

I’ll just eat

somewhere else.

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