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‘A soldier’
‘A killer’
‘Too h?’
‘Aye, Dessiions at us, and no hter, the First Emperor finds more’
‘Not true, Kullsan Five of the Seven Protectors are no ? And the sixth will not recover, now that we have banished the black beast itself’
‘I wonder, did we indeed drive it from this realm?’
‘If the Nameless Ones speak true, then yes-’
‘Your question, Kullsan, confusesfrom the city? Were we not just victorious?’
The conversation had begun to fade as the soldiers who had been speakingKullsan’s reply: ‘ Then why is our road lined with ghosts, Erethal ?’
More importantly , Kalam added to himself, why is mine ?
He waited as the last of the soldiers marched past, then stepped forward to cross the ancient road
And saw, on the opposite side, a tall, gaunt figure in faded orange robes Black pits for eyes One fleshless hand gripping an ivory staff carved spirally, on which the apparition leaned as if it was the only thing holding it up
‘Listen to the its head