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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deadestdai" data-source="post: 1111139" data-attributes="member: 13678">He is running. Through trees and bushes, through the forrest. Leaves and branches whip his face and sting his eyes in his panic. Soon a familiar clearing open up to him.There is no breeze in his ears as he runs, only the crackling of fires. The fires he soon realises are upon the roofs and walls of the houses in his village  - flickering yellow/red shadows across the surrounding trees, and across random dead gnome bodies.(Bodies!?)Stillgem falls to his knees and slides a little until he cannot stop himself from falling onto his face. Tears stream down his cheeks and Still' lets out a long hard sob as he shuffles to the inert form of his young wife. (Her back has taken a viscious cut from a blunt and heavy blade and she is very much dead.) Taking her in his arms he cradles her as he would a precious, precious burden. Suddenly, the fires are gone as are the bodies, Stillgem is stood in a familiar forrest trail, two goblin bodies are sprawled behind him on the path. Their black bodily fluids are pooling about them and are mirrored by the fluids that drip down his blade. Before him, three goblins run from him. They are scared by his fury. But one is left behind, their leader. Stillgem advances upon the beast, accelerating into a run. The goblin leader meets his charge and raises his own blade to cut the Gnome down. Now the Gnome is on his back. Lying on the forrest floor and breathing in shallow and gurgled gasps. His chest bleeds and he has a round object in his hand, held by greasy, lank hair -a goblin's head, the leader's head.Somehow the injured warrior manages to crawl all the way back to his burnt village. He lies by his dead wife and embraces her, passing out as his cheek touches her breast. *Stillgem wakes up momentarily to hear the clamour of battle, only to pass out almost imediately once more into a deep sleep - perhaps his dreams are not so haunted this time?*</blockquote>

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