[The Rusty Wheel]
OPERATIVE!!!
Grr! Augh! Roar! The Warsh is going to have a few choice words with The Operative if/when he returns to the base of MURDER! Gee whiz! Good golly, Miss Molly! These soldiers are not precision weapons! This isn't the James Bond go loud and leave no witnesses to tell the tale brand of infiltration! This is a covert operation! Covert! Not...uh...something that isn't covert, yeah?
Civilians are not the target! Eliminating civilians is neither efficient nor professional! Taking the lives of innocents is choosing to stoop to the level of the target!
At least something good might come of this distraction. It'd be much easier to pose as one of Riv's own horde in the midst of this chaos. All Warsh needs to do is get his hands on a uniform. If he can do that much, everything else will fall into place.
For now, Warsh merely nods and jogs over to wherever the storm cellar is, checking behind him only once in order to determine whether or not he is still being tailed. If so, this would be the perfect opportunity to obtain that uniform I wrote of earlier.
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[Hermitage of Dalechrech - Percival]
Eericka yips in joy and surprise as she spies the sea for the first time in her life. She isn't sure of what it is. Looks like nothing more than a massive puddle to her. But there's something different about it. The way the light bounces off of it. The little figurines bobbing up and down within it. The way it seems to extend in one direction infinitely. Beautiful. Nature at its finest. Such power and grace in such a simple thing. In every simple thing, in fact.
A gleam crackles to life within the core of her eyes. Her long locks trail behind her in a flowing river of air (resistance :smalltongue:). She lives for the first time. She breathes in the fresh of the outside. The outside! And the trees! This world is bright and new to Eericka. That concept only now strikes her, leaving a titanic dent where it hit.
"The ocean? I've only seen pictures!"
Whee!
...
You know what's funny?
I think that Percival is Eericka's first and only real friend.
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[Hermitage of Dalachrech - Elezibethele]
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Extinct? Why, that doesn't make any sense at all! Not one quark of sense! Mine is entirely dumbfounded! This requires much more inquiry, methinks!
"Why would we ever go extinct, Mistress? If we are the superior of humans in every way, should we not live as long as they do if not outlast them completely?":smallconfused:
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[Hermitage of Dalachrech - Azurelle]
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What? Are we talking about the same Azurelle here? Seriously? Fascinating!
Toy is quickly roused by Azurelle's kiss! She cringes when she first feels the warmth brush against her skin, but then smiles grandly a fraction of a second later. She must be dreaming. There's no other logical explanation for it. It felt so real, but it cannot be! Azurelle isn't like that at all! Never once has she been kind to Toy or any of her sisters. Not up until now, anyway.
"Good morning, sunshine."
Toy mutters, not realizing that she is, in fact, awake.
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[Library of Alexandria]
Hmm... I can't quite recall what is behind this door... Let's go with a monster or shade, shall we.
This room is circular and empty. It is expansive, about twenty feet wide radius-wise. It isn't lit at all, but Zero might be able to make out the vague shape of a door stuck into the wall of the room opposite that which he just entered.