Editing Hiparkes

"You see a lot of strange things, serving in the Seventh.  I've seen Dragon-Blooded sorcerers raise encampents out of the earth with nothing but their magical might.  I've stood in a scale of men, desperately hurling javelins against twenty feet of towering tyrant lizard.  But the most amazing thing I've ever seen is the [[The Marukan Alliance|Marukani]] god Hiparkes.  

"My scale was on maneuvers north of the range towns, near the banks of the Grey, when we heard it.  I thought it was a gathering thunderstorm at first, or an earthquake, but then I saw the horses.  Stallions and mares, more than I can count, and pressed together like drops of water in the sea.  Only they weren't horses at all; they were the living strength of the earth, they were freedom made flesh, and, leading them all was a bronco with hair like a storm cloud and a mane of bright silver.  My heart beat wildly in time with his hoofbeats and I let go of my breath as I watched him run.

"The whole herd was gone in a flash, faster than we could have hoped to follow, and when every man around me had air in his lungs again we let out a cheer.  I'm an immaculate, when I bother with religion, but I said a prayer to Hiparkes that night, and I know I wasn't alone."

-- ''Chegef Ixos, Gunchei (sergeant), 1st Fang, 5th Scale, 3rd Talon, 2nd Wing, 1st Dragon of the First Field Force of the Seventh Legion''


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