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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 3189886" data-attributes="member: 3285">The Senator's Seal - Part 7b: Battle for the SealThe big man finally went down like the stupid bull that he was.  Collectively, the elf, the Altherian, and the Milandisian had taken out two of Jaleon’s best men.  Only his archer survived.“Now,” said Jaleon, stalking towards the senator, “we have unfinished business.”Janthi backpedaled across the floor.  “I was only trying to throw them off the track—““Sarish’s ass!” cursed Jaleon.  “You we’re trying to sell me out! And you have the gall to call me a traitor? I’ll show you what Coryan does to traitors!”“Perhaps another time,” said Janthi as he reached for a slight depression in the wall.“Shoot him!” shouted Jaleon to his archer.The arrow only bounced off of the wall where the Senator had been moments before. He had used the secret door.“I don’t have time for this,” said Jaleon.  He looked around for the seal.“The vigiles will be here any moment,” said the archer.“I know, I’m looking for—ah!” He found it behind the table.  “Let’s go, we can use this to buy us passage out of the city.”Jaleon and his henchman jogged out of the Senator’s office.A moment later, the wall swung back again.  Janthi slunk over to Ilmarė’s unconscious form.  Blood trickled from a wound at her temple. The Senator put the back of his hand to her mouth. She was still breathing.He pulled a dagger from its sheath at his belt.  “Too bad they all died trying to defend me,” said Janthi.  “A stab wound in the chest should speed this up.”Janthi lifted up the dagger…Only to freeze, horrified by what he saw on Ilmarė’s armor.“The Yellow Sign!” he whispered to himself.  Janthi’s eyes darted everywhere.  He spotted it again on Dril’s boots.  A check on his pulse indicated that the Altherian was still alive as well.The Senator beat at his own temples with his fists.  “Think, think!  Can’t kill them, the Brotherhood will retaliate.”  He looked down at Dril’s potion bandolier strapped across his chest.  “Ah yes…one of these.”The contents of a potion were poured into Dril’s lips until he sputtered awake.  “Quickly!” said Janthi.  “You can still catch him!”He walked over to tend to Ilmarė.  “I’ll take care of them.  Go!”Dril shook his head to clear the cobwebs.  He rose unsteadily to his feet.  “What…”“Go!” shouted Janthi.  Spurred by the Senator’s words, Dril stumbled out of the doorway into the street.  “And remember who saved you,” Janthi whispered to himself.</blockquote>

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