Fionn's introduction was sufficient for Grug, but the end result seemed to have caused some confusion, mainly the assumption that he would have been one of these Kindred this man belonged to. He pondered about correcting the mistake for a moment, but ultimately decided against it. For all intents and purposes, he was working so closely with then now that it mattered not whether he was part of them officially or not. And besides, simply having the excuse to stop for a second, lean on his walking stick for a while and try to catch his breath was plenty enough for him on the meeting of these new people.

Nakreyya had wondered if these people might be the ones he had seen and to be fair a few of them seemed rather familiar. That was why the oracle was not too startled by the drawn gun either, though he kept his tongue ready in case he would have needed to call upon the inhabitant of his shrivelled hand. In the end, the situation was defused and the group set back on walking, now joined by more people after the awakening darkness of the subcontinent. The old Oracle was glad he no longer had to doubt their chances quite as severely as before.

Another grim trek later, the last mile of it being of pure pain to the Oracle's joints already, they found themselves standing before the pillar that had been the centrepiece in many, many of the views the Veil had revealed to him from the grim future. The text splattered on it in blood did little to ease the Oracle, but the fact that it relayed instructions that had been left unfulfilled. To burn all bodies and to scatter their bones. Ravings of a madman to some, knowledge of how to fight against those that raise undead to the others. Grug leaned heavily against his staff, gripping on to it for dear life as it served as more or less the only thing keeping him upright for the time being. Despite great difficulty, he spoke: "We've but made it to the stage of the ruin that is to come if we cannot fulfil our quest. We need to find our way down far below."

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