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He sees into the forest and recognizes friends among the shattered bodies, but in a moment they are gone, replaced by withered trees and corpses of orcs. His own body feels uncomfortable and foreign for a moment, like it was fixed to himself by a hasty surgeon. Then he remembers that he's supposed to have these legs and an extra eye... but there are three aren't there? | He sees into the forest and recognizes friends among the shattered bodies, but in a moment they are gone, replaced by withered trees and corpses of orcs. His own body feels uncomfortable and foreign for a moment, like it was fixed to himself by a hasty surgeon. Then he remembers that he's supposed to have these legs and an extra eye... but there are three aren't there? | ||
| − | There were words a moment ago, what were they? | + | There were words a moment ago, what were they? How should I respond? "Check back in a week please," Kyuad says in practiced Dwarvish. But that doesn't seem to fit either. Her voice... "Come to me, tell me what you see," he says into the trees nearby. But why is his arm outstretched? What is he supposed to do with this? The words... |
| − | + | ''"Katta bomike modainu ilay-a'atuth?"'' Like a slow reflex, the words finally fit. He asks the woman in the branches above where he can find her and what she can see with a feeling of familiarity and excitement. "Safati," he says to himself. As he smiles, he feels his cheeks resist the motion, as if the muscles and skin had forgotten they could move that way. | |
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In Safati, he looks up and speaks, "Collune, do we yet live? The world around us is awash with the dead, the past, the destruction of years and.... How have we come to be thus? We have never known what we are.... can you tell us?" | In Safati, he looks up and speaks, "Collune, do we yet live? The world around us is awash with the dead, the past, the destruction of years and.... How have we come to be thus? We have never known what we are.... can you tell us?" | ||
