The End of an Era Part 1

[Auranghzeb]

The Du-Qoc closes its eye and takes in the night breeze answering Ahalya's question.

They are one and many like a shadow under many dim lights. I can feel the one, the hoofs of its horse bruise the land with every step.


Onka and Miromoto harness the still shellshocked villagers, quelching their fears with your natural charisma and leadership. The compassionate dancer and the honorable dragon. The villagers bring the weapons they have, their lamps and oil and set a perimeter around the pier as Shimura instructed. Children are tuck inside a barricade of barrels and wagons.

The moon is now fully visible over the peaks.

Leylek sees the mist closing in inch by inch and then, as the moon rises clear and full, the mist sinks inside the earth, seeping into the land as if it was never there.

That's when you hear the hoofs. cut against the pale moon a rider advances through the stream that leads to the piers across town. It wasn't there a minute ago, not it is perfectly clear, an empty banner on one hand, it sees all of you, you can feel its gaze even if its eyes remain invisible.
The Du-qoc snarls.

It is here


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There's a moment of silence as the night sucks all hope, and then a wail, soft and eerie like a summer breeze.

Ahalya, you sense the creature, an oni of immense power, but only half manifest, it is a shadow of a shadow.