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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy" data-source="post: 346940" data-attributes="member: 4036">Collin took the steps four at a time as he ran below decks.  The others had just gotten below when Collin vaulted into the helm he had constructed and pulled the Water Key into place brusquely.  Water spiraled away in a great cascade from the ship as it formed and seemed to float in it's little bubble of protection.  The thunder off to the southeast suited Collin's mood perfectly as he shot off along the coastline with a will.He didn't bother with the charts and maps and merely relied on his memory and his reflexes to skirt the coastline west and around the southern tip before ripping around to the north towards New Galdomond.  Sweat beaded on his forhead and his concentration on the rope thick magical energies surrounding them was intense.Frederick sat in brooding silence with Phillip wondering how he was going to breach this to Borindra.  Zerin stood stalwart behind the helm watching the coastline scream by at well over 200 miles per hour.  Tylette scraped tears away angrily as her eyes glowed faintly with crackling silver energy.As the ship came to a stop amid the sunken wrecks at New Galdomond's port Borindra, Vithas, Zon, Two Moons, and even Grulvani stood at the end of the docks.  As Frederick came on deck and saw them he was slightly taken aback, but promptly lowered the gang plank with Phillip's help as Collin held the ship in place.There was little conversation as expressions were still grim and Collin turned right around heading back to Galearon with visions of fire storms and acid fogs playing before his eyes.Night had begun to fall as ten severe-looking adventurers deployed from the deck of the Sara Ardon.  By land and air they set off directly to the east.  Zerin scooped up Frederick and Phillip and flew off alongside Two Moons who had taken the form of an eagle.Collin and the others began to encounter the scattered retreat of the elves soon after they entered the tree line.  They were being rallied along by dark-faced members of Durchek's company and hurried back to Galearon.  As the adventurer's divided, providing aid where it was needed and encouragement where they could Collin rode ahead asking repeatedly after his Praelesian.Meanwhile Frederick, Phillp, Zerin, and Two Moons landed on the now dark field of battle.  Arrow riddled corpses of elves lay in various states at the edge of the tree line accompanied by the grotesque forms of elves incased partially or totally in sheathes of ice.  There forms were in cases blue and frozen in expressions of terror, or shattered in gruesome pieces.  The outlines of the icy blasts were clearly visible and the elves within them were one and all dead.  Frederick, Two Moons, and Phillip began searching for signs of life as Zerin unlimbered shield and sword and stood watch.Collecting and arranging corpses as best they could Frederick and Two Moons found scant few their healing magicks could save.Someone said they had seen her near the front lines in the north, someone else thought she was heading back with some of the other elves in the south, another thought he had seen her with bow in hand guarding over the retreat of others.  Too many simply shook their heads.  Collin did not allow himself to feel as he searched, he lost himself in mathmatics and geography.  His horse did it's best not to break it's ankles among the underbrush of the dark forest.Eventually he broke the tree line and saw Frederick and others seeing to the fallen.To be Continued...</blockquote>

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