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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 5319305" data-attributes="member: 60965">Session 31, Part 14 Kormak vanished, as Bail had a moment before, and Suniel turned to Keeper.  The construct regarded him with flickering eyes. “I'm going to hold onto you tightly because we're going to be sinking.” “Placing the Waterstone in the Azure Henge?” Suniel nodded, not bothering to ask Keeper how he knew.  “Give me a moment, I'll need some wardings to protect me from the environment we'll be in.” A few minutes later, he took a deep breath, grabbed onto Keeper's arm, and took them to the depths. He hadn't anticipated the absolute darkness.  The pressure of the crushing depths, the lack of air, yes.  He created a glowing sphere of light in his palm and saw that he and Keeper were sinking at a decent pace, judging by the tiny particulates drifting up around them. “Keep your eye out for the – there it is!” The henge was right below them, rising from a jutting spur of rock arcing over a watery abyss.  He pulled out the Waterstone and used its power to guide them to the henge.  The Stone fit exactly into the pedestal and the standing crystalline stones of the henge began to pulse with radiant, pale blue light.  Suniel almost fell as a protective bubble formed around the henge, pushing the water back and leaving him standing on the damp bedrock.  Around the henge the water was swirling more and more violently, a churning maelstrom of surging waters. Above them the waters began to swirl into a whirlpool whose walls were so fast and massive that he saw a circle of daylight high above, surrounded by what must have been thousands of feet of water. There was no to marvel, however.  He touched Keeper's shoulder. Dark clouds scudded across a plain studded with massive, nearly-transparent crystals jutting into the sky.  Moonlight caught in the crystals and made them shine like liquid silver.  Keeper pointed behind Suniel. He turned to look and saw the Crystal Henge, each crystal in it perfectly formed and exactly the same height as all the others.  As the Truestone of Light settled into its creche, the crystals began to glow, first just the henge then spreading to the immense crystals that surrounded them, each glowing with an ever-brighter golden light.  It was almost blinding and growing more intense by the second.  Suniel covered his eyes and touched Keeper's arm. The tumult of battle flashed over the trees, distant shouts and screams and echoing booms shaking the very ground. Two brown specks floated in the skies, miles away but drawing closer even as they watched, flashing against the blue skies and sending dozens of piercing beams of energy cutting down into the burning forest. Behind them was the mile-wide trunk of the One Tree, its branches high above stretching towards the horizons. Before them stood a familiar figure, his long hair and beard flecked with moss and twigs, behind him the dark petrified trunks of the Woodhenge, sparkling and gleaming.  Suniel took High Druid Anderlan's hand in his good one, the delight at seeing his old friend again far overshadowed by the doom that drew close. “You are ready?” Anderlan nodded.  “The Woodstone was placed just before you arrived.” “Then that is five.  I do not know how I can collect both of my companions, however.  They are at two of the Henges and I am too worn to retrieve them.” The druid gestured towards the Woodhenge.  “Use it then.  If five of them are active, then you can use them to travel to any of the other active Henges.  That is how you can retrieve your companions.” Suniel embraced Anderlan and stepped towards the Henge.  “Hold them Anderlan, whatever it takes.  Now that the Crystal Towers Defenses are active, we just need to figure out how to use them and we'll drive Iron Sky away.” “We'll do what we can then.  Just hurry, we cannot hold them for much longer.” Suniel was almost to the Woodhenge when Anderlan called to him.  Suniel stopped and turned. “The Silver spoke to me,  He will meet you at your last destination.” “The Silver?  Where is our last destination?” Suniel was too late.  Anderlan had already transformed into a massive eagle and launched into the skies with a piercing shriek, flying hard towards the smoke and rumble of the distant battle. “We head to the Spire of Direction that sits in the center of the Radianus Sink.  The Silver, the last Elarim.  They are the same.  He will meet us there.” Suniel turned to Keeper and stared, wishing for the hundredth time that the construct had expressions that he could read. “How do you know all this?  The Nexus?” Keeper shook his head.  “It was He who arranged that you might find me, that we might stand at this very point after millennium of waiting and planning, that you might undo the sins of your fathers and make the world right.  It was no accident that it was you who activated me and you that I serve."Keeper glanced at the distant battle then turned back to Suniel.  "Let us get the others quickly and head to the Spire, for time is short and Bahamut awaits us there.”</blockquote>

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