Standing up in awe, he turned to Denholme and listened, nodding. Denholme had done his research, he noted. Acheras, the guardian was called. He murmured to the other side, where Khorianas was standing;
"Looks like ye were right, Dawnseeker. Just look at those lightbeams." He took his fractured monocle from his pocket, eyed down at it, and frowned.
When the guardian's crystalline gaze fell onto him, the old dwarf clenched a fist as he stood tall. "Indeed! Passage we seek, by right o' blood! For we are descendants o' th' Earthen, o' the land, and its soul is ours, its pain is ours, its heartbeat is ours." He recited the old passage he recalled from hours upon hours of meticulous study. |
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