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I touch them and feel the imprint of the person who left theiven up on th from them

The symbols indicate that there is a location where I can leave a et picked up Only problearis and at least three different scuoing to be the challenge of a lifetime

Ten

Krush

It is almost over

I a in wait at the very same coordinates Jax found at her den They did not lead where I thought they would I was expecting them to correspond to some henceforth unknown place of security weakness But they don’t They lead to the old huates have been shut for decades, but I am certain that today they will open

Sure enough, at the appointed hour, an aperture in the lower part of the great doors creaks open I feel blood thundering through my veins in anticipation Another minute and he will be mine

He is taking a long ti area Atteain I let him think that he has I want hie him I want him fully ontime for this moment I can wait a few minutes more

I can hear a loling eer than it should to realize that I ae, I am filled with the animal spirit of the korabi My ancestors ild and terrible things Today, I ae My entire being is focused on that sioal

He steps through the door, large as life and twice as ugly with his aug capable of ine

Rath K’zar The big purple traitor

He stands in the open so proud of hiht he would at least have the decency to skulk into the city But no He caates He came as if he kneas his time to die

“Hello, Rath”

I saunter out of the place I chose to hide, putting myself at an easy distance from him My weapon is drawn