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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassEye" data-source="post: 6318805" data-attributes="member: 40413">Matta Sofya nods in response to Tsaaruk.  ”It would seem the Wolf King is using desperate and unusual tactics.  Perhaps Lesovik would not object to our countering his tactics in similar manner.  As for the challenge…Brother Goswald interrupts, ”The temple and its squatters haven’t moved beyond its fallen walls since I left here to acquire your services.  What can they do in the few days until we can return?  This seems the more pressing and the service we have arranged can wait if that is your decision.  You’ll get no condemnation from me.””As for the challenge, yes, an innocent is chosen, has been chosen.””My sister, Polina,” says Valeriya, ”Will don the crimson cloak.  I would take her place but I am too old.”  Tears of frustration well up in the young woman’s eyes.”I wore the crimson cloak myself when I was a girl and still I can tell you little of the challenge; the details are different each time.  There is a ritual at dusk, when the girl takes on the cloak and enters sacred ways of the forest.  The Hunter sits vigil until dawn.  Then he or she can enter the forest after the girl.  There are tests and often a confrontation with the Wolf King.”Matta Sofya looks like she will continue her explanation of the challenge but takes a long indrawn breath.  As she does so she seems to subtley grow in stature and exudes an aura of calm and insight.  Her eyes roll back in her head and gleam with a golden light.  ”Choice, catechism, and consequence lie before you.  You shall pass through places that were ancient before the birth of iron, and iron will avail you little there.  Knowledge of the old ways is better than sword or shield.  Not all that is devoured is dead and gone, and when offered a choice the brave may earn a great reward by boldly saying ‘all’.”  After her pronouncement Matta Sofya exhales and the gleam fades and she seems to shrink back into herself.[sblock=OOC]Not ignoring Samad's question; just didn't want to make this post too long.[/sblock][sblock=Pics]<img src="http://imageshack.com/a/img841/886/c53u.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/716/w26c.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://imageshack.com/a/img829/1056/hn3w.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />. . . . Jyman Trout . . . . . . . Brother Goswald . . .  . . . . . . . Valeriya . . . . . .<img src="http://imageshack.com/a/img856/2539/a9oq.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://imageshack.com/a/img840/711/rxsq.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://imageshack.com/a/img819/8620/zi8h.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />. . . . . King Danyll . . . . . . . . . Queen Raisa . . . . . . . . Matta Sofya . . . . .[/sblock]</blockquote>

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