Perhaps in some other life I might be a good bard.

Should he go to the bard and tell him what he'd done?

But the training of a bard is difficult and long.

In fact, the man quickly turned his back on the Bard.

I see you are not a man of the world, bard.

They needed someone who was like Bard, but not just on the outside.

For the first time in a very long while I felt like a bard again.

We will all have need of a bard in the days to come.

It was not as if he were a bard, after all.

It took all the power of his will to hold the bard.

So he had come to look that much like Bard!

That and more, for he has the heart of a true bard.

He's told us you have a very special friend, a Bard.

It was not a good time to be a bard.

I was the last bard of my people; all the rest were gone.

Tell me, Bard, would you rather this had not happened?

He might even end up being named a true Bard!

And thanks to the Bard himself for saying it all so well.

Do you claim to be a bard with the power of words?

Boy, you lack the long years for the learning a bard must have.

It was not the first time Bard had been asked this question.

It was the last thing Bard had expected him to say.

Much of what I told him was known only to the bards themselves.

Better go get on the radio, Bard, and give the word.

Free Bards show up looking for work, they got it.