“My gods sent me here,” Mael said. “To search for you.”

“For me?” I (Marius) asked. I was startled.

“You will understand all these things,” he said. “Just as you will come to know the true worship of ancient Egypt. The gods will teach you.”

“Why ever would they do that?” I asked.

“The answer is simple,” he said. “Because you are going to become one of them.”

I was about to answer when I felt a sharp blow to the back of my head and the pain spread out in all directions over my skull as if it were water. I knew I was going out. I saw the table rising, saw the ceiling high above me.

- Marius and Mael, mortal, meet in a tavern.

// And so begins the tale of the great VC Frienamies, Marius and Mael.  Because Marius doesn’t believe that friends should knock each other out, kidnap them, tie them up, hold them hostage, and then shove them in a tree to be killed.  

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