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[right][hr][color=gray][b]The Well of Valdis[/b]
12th Day of Autumn, 1088 AD[/color][hr][/right]

More people were rising, and Mimrin found herself backing away from them instinctively, towards the rosy girl. She wasn’t sure why, considering the girl was armed as well, and there wasn’t much reason to trust her over any of the others. 

Nevertheless, one of the risen—an older man—was shouting, and it frightened her. She held her own dagger, or what remained of it, close, but tried not to appear as though she was brandishing it at any of them. Maybe she couldn’t trust any of them yet, but it seemed worse to her to threaten the only other living souls around. 

[color=ec008c]“Hello,”[/color] she tried for the old man, who seemed the least composed of those she could see. It was hard to keep a steady voice, harder to will it into a gentle, comforting tone, but she managed. [color=ec008c]“It’s okay. I don’t think any of us are going to hurt you.”[/color]

A taller woman approached, now speaking quietly to herself, followed by a man carrying the remnants of a sword. He proposed they leave, or at least expressed a desire to be out of this awful place—a sentiment she could get behind. But as she looked beyond their gathering group, a niggling worry came over her.

[color=ec008c]“I agree with you, we should make haste to leave,”[/color] she said to the sword-wielding man, then turned her attention back to the corpses. [color=ec008c]“Only…if we’ve come-to, then there might be others about. Others like us, I mean—alive.”[/color]

She felt a sudden, nauseous lurch inside of her. Perhaps it was the thought of spending any more time amongst the dead that plagued her, or perhaps she was afraid that the next person to rise would be a violent sort. Regardless, Mimrin felt compelled to check, even beyond her fear, and started back off onto the deathly mounds.

[color=ec008c]“We should be sure, before we go. It would be a terrible thing to abandon someone down here...”[/color]