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Good, Karigan thought Now she had only herself to worry about
As ready as the man was for her, he looked confused, and when their swords clashed, Karigan realized she’d not dropped her fading She did so now so it would no longer drain her strength After all, he could see her in the light, translucent though she was, and once they engaged, it was clear she was a solid living person and not a ghost at all
She danced away and put Queen Aldesta between herself and the the figure of the queen, his sword hurtling down on Karigan She blocked it, but it felt like a hammer blow Somehow she held onto the sword and swept it like a scythe into Gare’s leg His screa white marble
The lastSweat burned Karigan’s eyes If only she could keep this up If only she could get past his defenses
But as he pressed her around the king’s sarcophagus, she stued to keep her footing, but could not properly block the man’s next blow It sliced down her forear only a portion of her wrist before the blade slashed down the back of her hand
Karigan’s sword clanged to the floor and she cried out, but the man did not pause He ca his sword hum over her head
The only thing left to her was to call on her fading and run This she did and she had enough presence of rab the book as she went
The ht the dark places, but there weren’t enough to hide her She pushed a statue in his path and threw an urn at him This slowed him little She felt like she ran in mud
When she came to the doallery She must hide, and hide quick Someplace dark
THE SILVER SPHERE
Thursgad awoke to silence Dead silence
He sat up recalling where he was and shuddered The last thing he re him and his cohorts with sword raised He peered around the corner of King Sasp Gare lay there in a pool of blood, uneful apparition killed him?
Thursgad scrubbed his face Gare was dead and Rol was nowhere to be seen; had abandoned him in this miserable place Or maybe because the dead were displeased by the desecration of their toly but was spirited away to some cursed shadoorld to be tormented for an eternity