[D2LA, The Desert: Nahr'umar shore] Breaking the fast (Open)

[Al-Haddar]

"Please tell us about the stories of your people. We've got a difficult audience here that's perpetually asking for novelty and exoticism," said al-Haddar as he caught a kid about to fall after having been accidentally jostled by a running band of other children.

"It's because you always tell the same stories uncle Had'," answered the kid.

"Because you think it's easy to come up with new good stories every year, you ungrateful spawn?"

"What's a spawn?" the kid continued, unfazed and curious.

"It's like a child, but with more complicated syllables, so rich people can feel more intelligent when they hear or say it."