科拉克斯堡

自述

呃，你想知道些什么关于我的事？你只是觉得无聊吗？不是什么伟大的故事，所以如果你期待听到什么史诗，你最好去跟别人聊天，懂吗？
我注意到你看著我的尾巴的表情－如果那样可以不让你的眼睛掉下来，那么我告诉你它是从那里来的：它是我的祖父…或是祖母的祝福…不管是谁，反正其中有一个是恶魔。我是一个提夫林，所以我的血液里面有足够的恶魔血液，让这根尾巴冒了出来。那种血统从我的祖母和祖父传下来到我这里…中间经过我的爸爸或妈妈，其中一个就是了。
法络德？我爸？哈！老结巴不是我老爸－反正不是真正的爸爸。他只是抚养我而已，把我从巢穴带出来，照顾我。
别以为他很仁慈…他一点都不可怜我是孤儿－他只是需要一个人来帮忙他把死尸从巢穴的街上弄回来，而我的身裁够小，所以我可以进去其他人进不去的地方。再说，他手下的大部分人都是小男孩，心里怕得要死，所以结果我在他们怕得不敢去找的地方找到最多尸体。清除者付了不少钱买下我送去给他们的尸体，而法络德并没有把全部钱都拿走，让我变成乞丐，所以我想他还不算太坏。
你问的问题够多了。现在我有一些事情要告诉你。
我看过你做事的方式，如果我们要一起旅行的话，你得知道一些事…第一，不要跟你遇到的每一个人说个不停。这样做绝对会惹麻烦。还有，不要对任何人没礼貌，否则你会惹上大麻烦。动作也要快。
最后一件事。不要以为你可以把我当做石头踢－只要你开始这样做，我就用这些刀把你切成碎块。我说到做到。
我的刀？嗯，这些刀是我的。我喜欢这些短刀－你可以用你的斧头和铁锤和棍棒－不过这种刀比较合我的味口。你只要管好自己，它们就不会插到你身上，了解吗？

Aye, now what yeh be wanting to know about me for? Are yeh jest bored? It's not some grand tale, it isn't, so if yeh're expecting some epic, yeh'd best go rattle yer bone-box at someone else, jig?
I seen the way yeh look at me tail - if it'll keep yer eyes to yerself, then I'll tell yeh where it came from: it's a blessing from me Grand Da... or me Grand Ma, whichever o' them was the fiend. I'm a tiefling, so I am, with just enough of the demon blood in me to sprout this tail outta me back. That blood trickled its way from me Grand Ma n' Grand Da to me... after passing through me own Ma an Da, whoever they were.
Pharod? Me Da? Ha! Ol' stutter-crutch isn't me Da - not me real one, anyway. He just fostered me, he did, dragged me outta the Hive and brought me inta his stable.
Don't get him wrong by thinkin' he had a kind bone in his body... he wasn't shedding no tear for me bein' an orphan - he just needed someone to help him scarp deaders off the streets of the Hive, an' I'm small enough so I can get inta places his other boys can't. Plus, most of the gullies in his pack are wee boys with the fear in 'em, so I end up finding most of the deaders in places they're too a-scared to look. The Dusties pay a nice bit of copper for the deaders I bring 'em, and Pharod don't take so much off the top that it leaves me a beggar, so he's not so bad, I s'pose.
Enough of yer questions. Now I got some things to say ta YEH, I do.
I seen the way yeh act, an' yeh need to be told some things if we're going to be travelin' together... first - don't go flapping yer bone-box and locking eyes with everyone yeh meet. That's a sure street to trouble, it is. An' don't be takin' no one's name in vain or yeh'll be attracting the worst sort of attention, and right quick, too.
An' one last thing. Don't be thinkin' yeh can treat me like a cobblestone, neither - yeh start doin' that, an' I'll take these blades an' carve yeh, I will.
Me blades? Aye, these dags are mine. I like these punch dags, I do - yeh can keep yer axes n' hammers n' clubs - these dags are more me style. Yeh jest behave yerself, an' yeh won't be wearing 'em, aye?