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The wizard took a handful of Paran’s cloak in one hand, said, ’Lead us through’

Right No do I do that? Study the card, Paran -- no, that alone will land us on its dahly fatal fall to the waves below A chamber, Picker said Rake’s throne room Think darkness Kurald Galain, a place unlit, silent, a place with cloth-wrapped corpses

Eyes closed, Paran stepped forward, dragging Quick Ben with him

His boot landed on stone

He opened his eyes, saw nothing but inky blackness, but the air smelled … different He h behind hiht appeared above theed cha They had arrived at what seemed the formal entrance -- behind them, beyond an arched threshold, was a hallway Ahead, at the far end of the chah-backed chair that had once cos on a lower step, the throne leaning On the centre of the dais three black-wood sarcophagi now resided

Along the length of the approach, to either side, were additional sarcophagi, upright, on which black-webbed sorcery played

Quick Ben hissed softly through his teeth "Ware the looter who penetrates this place’

Paran studied the sorcery’s soft dance over the unadorned sarcophagi ’Wards?’ he asked

’That, and a lot eburners are within these ones flanking the approach Oh, and one Black Moranth’ He pointed to a sarcophagus that, to Paran’s eyes, looked no different from all the others ’Twist The poison in his arm took him a bell before the first wave of Dujek’s companies’ Quick Ben sloalked towards another sarcophagus ’In here as left of Hedge Not much The bastard blew himself up with a cusser’ The wizard stopped to stand before the coffin ’Picker described it well, Hedge And I will tell Fiddler Next tier, then he turned to Paran with a grin ’I can picture hi a cracker between the stones …’

Paran sle He set off towards the dais The wizard followed

Quick Ben spoke names in a soft voice as they proceeded ’Shank … Toes … Detoran … Aimless … Runter … Mulch … Bucklund … Story … Liss … Dasalle … Trotts -- uh, I would’ve thought the Barghast … no, I suppose not He was as eburner as the rest of us Behind that lid, Paran, he’s still grinning …’

As they walked, Quick Ben spoke aloud every naeburners, Paran’s fallen coo no further Sorcery co web of Kurald Galain