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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1244612" data-attributes="member: 11574">Raziel walks over to the door, opening it, she finds no one outside the door. The cold of the night blows into the room, and falls down the stairs to brush against Alriand. A brief shiver later, Alriand begins to pull herself up the steps on her only good leg. The stairs are more like elevated mud stacks, as her hands sink into the soft dirt. Worms and spiders crawl over her hands as Alriand continues to force her way up the stairs. Raziel turns to watch Alriand pull herself up to the final step, and onto her left knee. "'bout time you clawed you way up here." Raziel says "Come over her to the fire, I need to finish your lovely carving.""Let me die witch, I'll not conform to your charms, nor your wishes." Alriand says, her will growing weaker with the loss of blood"Put up a real good fight downstairs." Raziel answers dismissivelyAlriand pulls herself up along the wall, then using the wall for support she makes her way over to Raziel. The pot on the fire smells horrible, it bubbles with a golden hue that makes the whole fireplace seem illuminated in an unnatural light. Raziel dips her left hand into the pot, and pulls out a handful of a thick golden liquid that clings to her hand like mud. "Open." Raziel commands, pointing to Alriand's split shirt. "Now stand still." Raziel smears the substance onto the rune. It burns as the liquid strives to replace the blood still seeping through the wound, and to adhere to Alriand's skin like a bandage. The pain causes Alriand's good knee to buckle and she begins to fall. Raziel seeing Alriand starting to fall, reaches out and grasps her throat, forcing her erect again."Now, now. We don't want this ruined before we even start now do we?" Raziel asks rhetoricallyThe pain on her throat from the incredibly hot liquid causes Alriand to hold her breath to avoid having to move her neck or throat. Raziel eases Alriand back against the wall, the light from the liquid which had caused a glow from Alriand's chest dies down. The light now extinguished, Raziel releases Alriand, letting her slump to the floor on her good leg. Gasping for air, Alriand looks down at the rune on her chest."Twelve days travel north of Thumble there is a small keep, you will go there." Raziel begins, however the pain and blood loss is causing Alriand difficulty in staying conscious."Hey, pay attention. I'm not going to repeat myself. If you don't complete this, then your death will be most painful." Raziel says snapping her fingers at Alriand. "Now, there will be a man there, an old wizard of some skill, you will.." Raziel's explanation trails off, as there is another knock at the door."Leave me, or I'll turn you into a toad you little buggers." Raziel yells at the door. Another knock at the door, this one louder than the first. "Who is it?" Raziel asks. Silence. Then another knock. Raziel looks back at Alriand who's almost completely out of it, then back at the door. She sees the knob begin to turn, and steps back ready to cast  a sleep spell.The door flies open, as the wind forces it against the wall. Cold air and snow begin blowing in through the door. Raziel stands perplexed, waiting for an assault that doesn't come. After a few moments Raziel lowers her hands and walks over to the wall opposite the door. Peering out in the gray black of a snowy night, Raziel sees nothing. Shrugging her shoulders, she starts to walk to the door looking up one last time to see the red eyes of gray wolf rushing at her through the night. Raziel tries to slam the door shut before the wolf arrives, but is a little too late as the wolf was able to get it's front half through the door. Unable to force the door closed Raziel backs up, the door flies open, the wolf enters the room, and standing at the doorway is the figure of a beautiful woman. Not wanting to stick around and chat, Raziel retreats down the mud stairs followed by the wolf. Alriand sees Raziel run down the stairs chased by the wolf and then two barefooted human feet enter the room before the weight of her eyelids cause them to close, and she passes out.</blockquote>

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