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Time was becoming something abstract, something of before the time of endless walking. The brown grey expanse never ending, with the spire always behind me.
Step
Step
Just he memories of it fill me with cold, cold loneliness, they rob me of the capability of feeling, experiencing anything. It scares me, the walking there must have been the closest thing to non-existence next to the death of an atheist.
The pain has inspired me however. Now as I write this I have developed a new spell, using magics I let my enemies feel the same as I have felt. Let their souls experience the loneliness I have experienced. It is not a nice spell, I know this, but I have the feeling it will be a useful one.
Just as I saw something on the horizon of the endless grey expanse I felt something real for what felt like the first time in years. A voice, a voice speaking in draconic.
“Bahamut, hear the plea of your humble servant, I humbly ask, guide this kind soul back to her body. Please accept his offering of the clearest of gems before me. I ask you, use your great powers to aid me, by aiding her to back to our world”
For a moment nothing happened , and I was afraid that I would recede back to the nothingness I had experienced for so long, but a shimmering appeared before me.
An image of great dragon, slightly see through, as an projection, which in retrospect it must have been as it would have wiped my mind if I had seen the real thing. A dragon with shimmering scales, silvery but slightly grayer. I should K’Tau the colour of his god.
“Ah there you are, wandering soul, your time here has come to an end, you have a friend who is dear to me”
A shimmering appeared right next to the dragon. The form of a man just as large as the dragon, with a big grey beard, covered a purple robes and sparking eyes behind his half-moon glasses
“Bahamut, can we talk about this? I was really looking forward to this one. My library is filled with stuffy man reading the same books over and over again. The more esoteric volumes are never perused. The section filled with so much information that time and space bend around them are never explored. I was hoping this one” he said, pointing towards me “might finally be able to look in these parts of my library”
“but Boccob” the great dragon roared “my follower has made an offering, I can’t just ignore his pleas”
“Ah like you have never ignored a prayer before, we all have, we are busy beings. Besides you haven’t taken the diamonds yet right? Just leave it with him he can use them for someone else”
The dragon was silent for a moment, I think considering the words of The arch wizard.
A bright light appeared above them. The light was to bright for me to see anything, I could just hear giant wings flapping.
Whoop
Whoop
And a voice “this one still has a role to play in the realm of the materium. A role intertwined with mine. Mysteries to unravel, and knowledge to gather. Let her go back”
The face of the old wizard crumpled together in chagrin “fine, fine let her go, I guess I’ll wait, and after all there is a lot for her to uncover”
The dragon roared “Fine it is decided”
And I opened my eyes.