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*Flips the book closed with a thunk and follows the path of the wisps*
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*The wisps once again lead outside and disembodied voices begin to speak. The skies begin to darken and the air becomes thick with the smell of fire and steel and blood.*

Him: "I'll take the rest of the guards, seal off the palace gates, go!"

Her: "Don't be reckless, come back to the palace with me! We'll hold them off-"

Him: "If they get to the palace there'll be no where else to run. Get to the palace and prepare to flee!"

*The shadows around us begin to form into crooked silhouettes of people holding swords, bows, and spears. One fires an arrow grazing me on the shoulder*

[i]Ach!-[/i] Careful, those ones can actually hurt us.