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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 5140124" data-attributes="member: 60965">Session 30, Part 1 “What exactly happened is difficult to remember and is quickly fading even as I try to think of it,” Suniel said.  “I remember finding a child laying sick in a city street, coughing weakly, so exhausted he could barely move.  The child's mother was holding him and looked up at me with tears in her eyes as I approached.” “'He's so sick', she said.  'The seer said a man would come and take the sickness into himself so my child could live.  Are you that man?'” Suniel himself then broke down in a racking cough that took him several minutes to recover from.  When he finished and began speaking again, his voice was a whisper.  “I thought about it several minutes, then knelt by the child and put my hand on the boy's blazing forehead.  'Yes, I am that man,' I said. “I then found myself walking down a crossroads and saw a blind man standing at the center.  He turned as I approached, as though looking at me with his milky white eyes.  'I do not know which way I will go.  To the east lies a Spinx that will answer any one question, to the west lies a king who will give me any one thing I desire.'    “I thought and came up with the answer.  'Knowledge is the ultimate power.  The sharpest sword is useless if you do not know who or what or where your enemy is so you can fight him.  All the gold in the world cannot buy you a gift for your wife if you don't know what it is she truly wants.' “I was then the blind man, stumbling at the feet of the Sphinx, to hear it whisper in my ear the one question I thought to ask.” “Which was?” Kormak said. “Shh,” Bail said.  “Go on Suniel.” “I was walking into the stone hall of some magistrate, a towering figure in his deep purple robe and long braided beard.  An emaciated man striped with purple bruises lies on the dusty stone at the base of the magistrate's dais.  The magistrate turned to me as I approached.  'This man is a thief.  He has admitted openly that he stole bread, many times.  The punishment for thievery has not changed in a thousand years.  Will you pronounce his sentence?'  “'This bread he stole, did he then sell it?' I asked. “'No, he stole it for himself,' the magistrate said. “'Can't you see that man is starving?' I asked. “'The law is the law,' he replied.  'He must lose his hand.' “'No,' I said. 'The law cannot see all things, that is why a magistrate exists, and not just an executioner.' “'The law is the law.  A crime was committed, the perpetrator was caught, the sentence must be delivered.' “'It is wrong.'“'Would you take his place?' Suniel smiled wryly and patted the stump of his arm.  “You can see how I answered that." “And the two Seeking Stones you have now?” Harold said.  “Where did you get those?” Suniel lifted them in his good hand, the giant ruby and the black one that seemed to change shape and luster every time you looked at it.  “I don't remember...  some of what happened meant nothing and was gone as soon as it happened...  "Some of it I don't remember but I can feel where it went deep inside me and... changed things.  The stones I can't remember getting at all, and yet they are the first things I noticed as I walked out of the smoke of that crater back there.” “How'd you get to the crater?” Kormak said.  “Can you fly now or did you use your magic to get there?” Suniel smiled.  “I just remember walking, then seeing you up on the rim of the crater.  Before that is the Fae Wood, like snatches of dream, half-real, half-imaginary.” They sat around the fire after that, alone their individual thoughts.</blockquote>

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