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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7321219" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>Winds whistle overhead, as a pair of hawks chase after a songbird in the moonlight. For the first time in the evening negotiations with the Al-Aeshma he casts his glowing eyes toward Akilah, who weighs the truth in every word he speaks. So far, everything the Al-Aeshma has spoken rings with the clarion tone of truth, like a drop of clear water into a basin. It wavers. He contemplates a lie, but at last returns his focus to the sha'ir. <strong>"Much of what you have heard..."</strong> repeats the Al-Aeshma ruefully, his windy rueful tone implying he distrusts the word of djinn on principle. </p><p></p><p><strong>"Once... long, long ago... we were the greatest of the <em>Great</em> Caliph's warriors against the City of Brass, fighting the efreet at the very mouth of Jabal Turab, the mountain of dust from which they invade the winds of creation. We were vaunted and held aloft on glorifying winds. Our names were praised in all four corners of the wind. Now we are shadows upon the dunes of this crude world."</strong> In one breath he seems to hold the Badu al-Kabir, indeed all the Material Plane, in contempt, while in another he seems to regard it as more of a home than the Plane of Air. <strong>"My brethren will represent my case to the Great Caliph...to convince him of the err of his ways..."</strong> The Al-Aeshma glowers. <strong>"...so that I will hear those praises sung once again, as in the time since long forgotten by mortals and their hubris."</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7321219, member: 20323"] Winds whistle overhead, as a pair of hawks chase after a songbird in the moonlight. For the first time in the evening negotiations with the Al-Aeshma he casts his glowing eyes toward Akilah, who weighs the truth in every word he speaks. So far, everything the Al-Aeshma has spoken rings with the clarion tone of truth, like a drop of clear water into a basin. It wavers. He contemplates a lie, but at last returns his focus to the sha'ir. [b]"Much of what you have heard..."[/b] repeats the Al-Aeshma ruefully, his windy rueful tone implying he distrusts the word of djinn on principle. [b]"Once... long, long ago... we were the greatest of the [I]Great[/I] Caliph's warriors against the City of Brass, fighting the efreet at the very mouth of Jabal Turab, the mountain of dust from which they invade the winds of creation. We were vaunted and held aloft on glorifying winds. Our names were praised in all four corners of the wind. Now we are shadows upon the dunes of this crude world."[/b] In one breath he seems to hold the Badu al-Kabir, indeed all the Material Plane, in contempt, while in another he seems to regard it as more of a home than the Plane of Air. [b]"My brethren will represent my case to the Great Caliph...to convince him of the err of his ways..."[/b] The Al-Aeshma glowers. [b]"...so that I will hear those praises sung once again, as in the time since long forgotten by mortals and their hubris."[/b] [/QUOTE]
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