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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 5118282" data-attributes="member: 60965">Session 29, Part 9  Bail heaved another boulder out of the way and stopped, panting.  Meepo struggled with a rock the size of Bail's head, dropped it onto the pile they'd been making, and fell over. “Doing all right there Meepo?” Bail said. “Hard... work...” the kobold panted. Bail looked down into the hole they'd made stone by stone.  “We're almost to the head,” Bail said.  “A couple more rocks and we might be able to fit you in there.” “Enough rest then, let's get those last rocks!” Meepo said, springing up and pulling away a few more stones.  A few minutes later Meepo was crawling through the turtle's partially open mouth.  Bail backed away as the half-buried turtle slowly backed out of the rubble. When it came to a stop, Bail walked a lap around it.  The mouth opened when he got to the front and Meepo leaned out.  “It intact?” Bail nodded as he ducked into the mouth and headed in.  “I guess this silversteel is as unbreakable as they say.  Not a scratch.”    He looked out the turtle's eyes.  “Turtle head to... that henge floating over there.  I guess Harold got the henge working.” *** Harold touched the True Stone in the center of the henge and lowered it back to the ground as the Turtle approached.  He set the disc of the Skyland's new, drastically diminished bulk onto the ground and stepped off. “I see you got what's left of the Skyland dug out,” Bail said. “Yes.  I'm thinking we should take it to the Black City.” “Take the what to the what?” Bail said, staring at Harold. Harold sighed.  “To see if the Black City might serve as an ally against Thessalock.” “To see if... an ally... against Thessalock?  Did you forget about Iron Sky?  About the fact that in a month or two they're going to destroy everything here?” “Did you forget that Thessalock is destroying the Ashen Towers right now?” Harold shouted back.  “If I don't do something, the Crystal Towers will fall!” “So what?” Bail shouted back.  “You think the Crystal Towers matters now, with Iron Sky literally looming right over our heads?” Bail and Harold stood only feet apart, glaring at each other, hands on weapons. Let's end this, Harold thought. “Looks like I not much changed while I was gone,” a familiar voice said softly behind them. They turned to see Kormak standing with a figure in a black robe laced through with faintly shimmering runes.  As the figure pulled back the cowl, Harold saw that it was Suniel, but a Suniel changed.  His skin was darker, his features seemingly more angular and his eyes had a strange glint, as if they glowed faintly from within.  The elf cradled the stump of his left hand in the crook of his right, while he clutched something that flickered and shone like living flame in his other. There was a moment of silence as Suniel looked between them with his usual faint smile.  Then Suniel looked around.  “Where's Keeper and Velea?” Bail turned to Harold and glared, Kormak coughed, looked down, and shifted his weight. It was Meepo who answered, beaming with a helpful koboldish smile.  “I think most of him is in a chest inside.  Tough to say now since all the chests are broken from when we dropped, blew up, and buried the Turtle.  Bail says Velea is lost somewhere in another evil world or something with the silver statue thingy, well, if she survived everything going KABOOM that is.” Suniel looked slowly between them, his smile fading.  Finally he shook his head, sighed, and walked past them.</blockquote>

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