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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4776986" data-attributes="member: 3285">Secret of Semar: Part 6 – The Enemy of My Enemy“So you’re trying to tell me that YOU’RE Emric?”Emric nodded.“We’re not talking about the human Emric.” Kham described Emric’s original stature with his hands. “We’re talking about the little squeaky Emric that I rescued from the Temple of Yig awhile back. About this high?”“That’s me.”“The same Emric who was turned into a giant avatar of Yig and fought the King in Yellow to a standstill?”“Yes.”“Didn’t you die in the collapse of the cavern?”Emric tilted his head.  “It was a death of sorts, yes.  Yig gave me one last chance to be reborn again, not as a tool of Her will but as my own person.  I chose to combine the traits of both of my parents.”  There was a hint of a smile on his lips.Kham looked closer at Emric.  Emric’s irises were clear.  His pupils were shaped more like a slit than a dot.  “About that…Calactyte’s dead.”Emric’s shoulders sagged.  “Somehow, I knew that.  I am sure that Mother died valiantly.”“She…I mean he did.” Kham shook it off.  “This is too weird for me.”  He walked away into the grasses to confer with Mashudu.“So Emric, what are you doing here?” asked Sebastian, still a little woozy after being poisoned.Emric sat down cross-legged.  “Despite what you may believe, I am a loyal servant of the Ssethregoran Empire.  Ffashethh started the attack in collusion with a human conspirator.”“Quablo?” suggested Vlad.“I don’t know.  But I do know that I was considered the best hope to bring a stop to the fighting. Since I am a half-breed…” he looked at Sebastian with a grin, “I was hoping I could bring both sides together.”“I find it’s not that simple.” Sebastian’s tail twitched in agitation.“I didn’t think it would be.  That is why I have been sent here, to assist you to stop Ffashethh.  He belongs to a heretical group known as the Sskethvai.”“We know all about it,” Beldin said gruffly.  “They worship the Unspeakable One.”Emric nodded.  “Worship of the Unspeakable One has been proscribed within the Empire for centuries.  That God is dead and gone. The Sskethvai sect controlled Semar after their purge from the Empire.  There they enacted their obscene rites until the Altherians arrived and drove them out. Unfortunately, a handful of subjects, most notably the troglodytes, still follow the Unspeakable One’s edicts.”“And that’s the mob Ffashethh led on the attack against Semar?” asked Vlad.“I’m afraid so.” Emric sighed.  “Ffashethh used the attack as cover to reach the Ssethregoran gate.  He hopes to entreat this Unspeakable One to return to Onara and conquer all its people, Ssethreogran and human alike.”“So you’re working with us?” Sebastian asked dubiously.“My superiors do not want such a thing to happen any more than yours do.”  He looked over at Kham, who was standing by himself in the grasslands.  “Why is Father upset?”“Kham’s the reason Ffashethh is alive today,” said Vlad.</blockquote>

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