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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seravin" data-source="post: 2725501" data-attributes="member: 6783">ResponsesColonel Beka Megara opened her soul and loosed a string of martial-sounding syllables that were part command and part supplication.  The gray-haired woman’s brow was still shining with the wetness of the purified water she had anointed herself with, but soon that water would give way to sweat.Before her was the message that Jared had received for Kellron.  Next to the message was a list of questions that she and Jared had decided to ask.  Hopefully one of the Intercessors would be able to answer them.  Then, the clear, clarion call of a battle march told her that she had been answered and the messenger had arrived.The small, private chapel of Sword House melted away and the colonel saw herself standing on a grassy plain, the Plain of Rememberance where a grave was dug for every fallen Imperial soldier.  The raised mounds of the shallow graves disappeared into the distance in all directions.  The sky above was gray but the air was warm.  Before her was one of the Intercessors, the planetar, General Markon, clad in celestial armor.<Ask your questions, Colonel>Concentrating, the priest-cleric focues on the desk that she knew was before her real body and began to speak.  “Intercessor, is the message that Jared read and gave to me a trap for Kellron?”<That is not clear>“Will Grandal Deverex be there?”<If it is a trap then Grandal will be there>  This was an odd answer and more words than the Intercessor’s usually gave.“Does the message reference to an item of value refer to Ashimar’s soul?”<Yes>  Emphatic“Can the writer actual deliver the soul?”<Yes>“Did Grandal Deverex write the message?"<No>“Did Grandal Deverex instruct someone to write the message?”<No>“May we bring the person bartering Ashimar’s sould to justice?”<Yes> Emphatic again“Was Ashimar subject to a plot by Grandal Deverex?”<Yes>“Is Kellron in danger from Grandal Deverex?”<Yes>“Is Kestral Threndy in danger from Grandal Deverex?”<Unknown>“Is the journey-mage Jallarzi in danger from Grandal Deverex?”<No>“Is Tore Daergan in danger from Grandal Deverex?”<No>The strain of the communion was finally too much for the colonel.  Saluting, Beka saw the plain shatter, revealing the small dark chapel again.  Her last image of the Plain of Rememberance was of the Intercessor's grim, but strangely beautiful face.  She felt as if she had sprinted to the South Gate of Corlean in full armor, something she could still do if she had to.Lieutenant Jared was standing patiently off to the side, waiting for her to recover.  The colonel considered that it was perhaps time for a promotion for the young man.  His faith was unquestioning and strong and tempered by a wisdom than many older people had yet to attain.  That was for the future however.  Now she had to discuss with him what had been relayed to her.</blockquote>

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