S.A.C-The Adventures Of The Tiny Trio

Brothers Three

    A scream and a cry is heard through the trees of the small town of Deragald as a woman is giving birth to her sons. The Father of these sons waits outside of their bedroom nervously, pacing back and forth as he chews his nails off one by one. The floor boards squeak as his shaky steps pass over them and lands down hard with each step. The screams of the woman grow louder to where people from all over this small community now await outside the home hoping for good news or bad. Now inside the bedroom the woman lay screaming as the midwifes run around calming her, getting warm water, and towels to help. Now these are no ordinary people, no these people are short and stocky. These people are no humans but they are Halflings, they are a good and hearty folk with hearts made for revelry and the party. The woman's screams rip through the night like a fox tears into a rabbit, and all of the town jolts their heads towards the home.

           Firstly as the woman's screams become long and even harder she finds relief, as the her child is born. He is a strong and healthy baby boy, he is taken off quick and placed in fresh blankets and towels. However the woman's tormenting pain is not yet done as her screams begin again. She shakes and her breathing is hard as her muscles all contract and retract. She screams and howls as not one but TWO children arrive. Once again she has given birth to two boys, one of them has more angular features and the other is slender but healthy. The woman is then given her now three sons and she holds them tight as they are kept warm in the embrace of the white cloth they were so carefully wrapped in. One of the midwifes left the room and came to the Husband and around half the town and told the husband that he may enter to meet his new family. He ran inside and saw what he considered the most beautiful sight that he has ever set eyes upon, his family.

  

           The Father took a few steps forwards and took up the first child into his arms and declared for all to hear "You my boy shall be know as Fredrick, Fredrick Sling. You shall be my heir and will lead our family to greatness"    He approached the next two children that arrived at the very same time and as before he raised them high and said "You my twin boys shall follow your brother no matter what, and I know that you will always be there for him as you will be for each other my two sons Phil and Will". He approached his wife and laid a kiss upon her cheek and said, this is our family and they will bring us joy and happiness for the rest of our life. The whole town cheered and shouted loud across the wind screaming "Hooray"  "Way to be Sling" and many other things. As the crowd began to disperse, and the families had said what was needed, the Sling family went home to have a long deserved rest.

The children are laid to rest in their own rooms which now have etched over their cradles each of their names with Phil on the left, Fredrick in the middle, and Will on the right. The home is grand and large, especially for a halflings house. Pictures of the many ancestors of the Sling family are all around the home with nick knacks all around. This is house Sling and was once the main base of operations for the proud family business Sling and Co or S.A.C, the company was a well known trading organization but has long since been disbanded.  Jebidiah Sling was the former owner of Sling and Co along with his brother, but with the start of his family he has put away the keys to the shop and settled down. This is his life now and he does not want to leave it by running off again on some grand scheme or adventure, it is time to simply keep quiet and live.

      

     A bright and early day dawns across the sky as the sun rises and the world glistens new like diamonds freshly cut. The streets begin to busy as the market opens up and the stores and vendors open their doors to customers. The smell of freshly baked bread from many a halfling's homes is flowing across the air. Even now the sound of revelry and song is heard from the Tavern, most likely because it never stopped. Yes this is the small town of Deragald, nestled into the hillside with lush forest and many a creek around it. This is the home of the now retired Jebidiah Sling and his new family members.    A swing and a cracking sound echos through the the yard, two young boys are fighting each other with sticks made of oak. They strike and parry and lunge at each other both attempting to gain the upper hand but never seeming to be able to overcome the other. When suddenly one of the boys kicks dirt in the other's eyes and then slams the stick into his side. The blinded boy holding his eyes in pain throws his stick to the ground and tackles the other. In the background another child is shooting a sling with quite the large rock against a tree. The two boys fighting were Will and Phil Sling the twins that were born around thirteen years ago. Phil is stronger than most boys there age, he is constantly outside and enjoys all kinds of physical activity. Will is out spoken and quite the quirky one, he enjoys the arts and spends most days out in the woods singing songs to himself.  Now the eldest by a total of ten minutes Fredrick is quiet and odd in many ways, sometimes people say he even talks to himself but no matter what he is there for his brothers.