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"Alright, we'll stick near you. Just do your best to get along with your son, [i]please.[/i] And Smith? I think we're both counting on you to do the right thing in this. I know you didn't want this to happen, but it has. It doesn't sound like we can reason with these people, so if it comes to it... don't hesitate to kill." Kara knew that this was asking much of Smith, but the situation called for these measures.

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"Hmm. Forgive me if our dracon religions rarely if ever include a... swallowing fetish mixed in with some foot stuff... but we should keep moving" Ternoc explained, clearly not paying enough attention to understand that what she said was largely metaphoric. "That said, we have a similar explanation. Sort of. When a dracon passes, his soul is attracted to the plane which most closely resembles his behaviors, thoughts, and intentions in life, whether this be for good or ill. Judgment is rendered at each plane separately, although simply arriving at a given plane is usually enough to understand how one's judgment is going to go. Few people arriving in one of the seven hells will be under the impression that they have anything to look forward to for eternity."

A few minutes later, they arrived at the first temple on their trip. It was a large structure shaped like a short, wide cube with a large, hemispheric dome on the top. Walking through the bronze front doors, they could feel the sensation of heat coming from a huge fire in the heart of the temple, and see the towering flame after walking down one of four hallways leading from each corner of the building to the center. Several dracons bowed down before the flame, three on each side. The flame itself seemed to burn without fuel, rising from a black, metallic brazier which was itself standing on four legs which supported an ovular bowl which house the flame. 

"This is the Temple of the Magi. It is far closer to what most dracons would consider to be a 'normal' house of worship, without demons and any sacrifice of sentient beings. As high prince, I don't have any particular rights of privileges in this temple, but were I the king, I would have the responsibility of conducting a sacrifice once a year, and would be owed a cut of the temple's revenue. About one tenth, if I recall correctly. Anyway, there are a few gods worshiped in here. You can see their images on the walls, those bronze statues. I don't have time to go through all of them, but that big one over there is the chief deity of the temple, Magos. It is from him that we get the name 'magi', although not the word 'magic' itself, interestingly. He's a god of fire, obviously, but more importantly, he is the god of purification. The magi who live in this temple purify themselves by walking through his flames once a year. If they have been impure to any large degree, the flames will utterly consume them. If they have been clean, they will pass through unharmed."