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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greppa of Tartwater" data-source="post: 1058921" data-attributes="member: 10191">It was the year of...change."Hello Athan," I said with an inner peace that surprised me. "You're looking well."He smiled sadly, "It's good to see you too Merideth, Greppa." "Now that you're here," I said sounding business-like, "we can sit down and talk." He didn't seem real, but he was here, so strong, so touchable, an adolescent crush brought back to life, gloriously accentuated with the power of a god. He slumped slightly, telegraphing his mood, "I do not want to hurt you.""What do you mean?" I said, "We can talk about this. We only want what's best for..."He cut me off. "I DON'T want to hurt you Greppa!" The beautiful body riddled with orc spears I roared,"You don't HAVE to!" Tears in his eyes said, "But I do." Damn me! I'm so stupid! I didn't see this coming. "You don't have to hurt anybody."He shook his head and drew a spear from the quiver at his back.Color seemed to drain from the scene and suddenly we were moving painfully slow.Merideth and I moved together, heading for the nearest exit. I formed the spell in my mind, Teleport, but our escape was interrupted by the spear protruding from my chest. Merideth screamed abruptly. Her hand went limp. I spared a glance and saw Merideth, unconscious, two spears sticking from her back. Athan was riddled with crossbow bolts. However, his focus was still on us.Maintaining my grip on Merideth, who was dead weight at this point, I leapt from the room, rebounded from the wall and into the hall. The strength of an orc hero (coupled with Earth's Strength) was more than sufficient to carry me away. I re-initiated the Teleport spell. Athan teleported into the hall before us. The spell was taking an agonizing amount of time to complete. The servant of Allas slowly drew another spear. This shaft was shining, a sliver of light. He flung it directly towards my face, however, the spell completed and we were gone. I wanted to teleport into one of the Kithian storehouses we found under the highway, but Athan's glowing spear screwed up the magic pattern. We arrived underground...somewhere. Darkness engulfed us. I willed myself to glow, not knowing what will happen. Light illuminated the darkness, a pinkish red light.Under the illumination, Merideth looked shockingly pale. She was bleeding profusely, but she just needed time for her to heal her self. I was bleeding myself, so I conjured a small finger of flame to cauterize my wounds, well tried to conjure. The spell took far more effort than a cantrip should. I shook my head, somehow, we teleported into another plane. I didn't know which plane, but any plane that wasn't my home plane was bad. I got the finger going and seared my wounds shut. I turned to Merideth and tapped her face, "Okay Merideth, wake up you're safe, we're okay." She didn't move. I put my face to her nose and felt no air. I put my ear to her chest and felt no pulse. It didn't help that the spear was slicked with cardiac tissue. No "Get up Merideth!" I said feebly rocking her body back and forth. She didn't move."Just make yourself better." I was rocking her gently, like I was a little boy trying to get his mother to wake up. "Don't leave me by myself." I don't want to be by myself! </blockquote>

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