The enemy pushed into a break in the lines the king had purposely opened, their front line wedging in.

Reyas offered a half-smirk. The dark elven amulet, warded against detection and pressed against his chest, lended him confidence. "Haven't you already guessed? This pathetic island and its people have assisted me little."

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Kael stared at the empty wall in his cell, planning. How could he get out? Maybe he could persuade the mage to accept him in his service? Kael doubted that. The mage seemed a bit ambitous and Kael highly doubt that he ever considered an apprentince.

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I was cured all right.

the kings cavalry came in on the wings of the stretched lines, enveloping the enemy

Aver sensed something disturbing about this man or he didn`t even want to consider this person as a man, he had such bitterness and hate in his voice that it made Aver wonder. Aver looked at the amulet he was holding tightly, Aver had seen few of the inscriptions just by overlooking at them, but now he tookout a book looking trough few pages.

"What is the amulet for stranger?"

Aver asked as he read the book.

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

In the shadows of his prison, Kael attempted to escape. Finding a loose stone in the wall, he attempted to extract it.

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I was cured all right.

He was certain the mage hadn't the power to take the amulet or decipher its function. He shrugged. "It's for luck." Leaning back, he regarded the mage cannily. "So how long do you plan to keep me here?"

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"Aren`t you a bad liar..."

Aver said tsking, he looked at the book turning the pages and then cursed as he found nothing, but then he smirked slightly taking out a more older book beginning to flip the pages.

"You are going to be here as long I want, what I right now is answers and to see if you can be any use to me..."

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

The king now let his newly arrived men from the fringe cities enter his ranks as he marched toward the enemy reserve.

"Ask away," Reyas told him.

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"Are you human?"

Aver asked not turning his sight from the book.

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

"Do I look human?" Reyas said, feeling vaguely insulted. He pulled back his hood.

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Aver smirked.

"Not at all... but tell me then why are you here? what did you think you could possibly gain here?"

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!

Hey, I'd really like to join but don't really know if I'd fit in. Will it confuse me easily?! And can there be women in it?

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"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche



"Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come."

Fwee!

Reyas decided to tell the truth. This was nothing the mage couldn't find out for himself if he tried.

"To put it bluntly, I am an ambassador from my people. The war has run over our lands and I was sent to see if anywhere else may be faring better."

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of course, you can choose to be a ruler of some area, perhaps a leader of some refugees building their homes once more or a servant of some king or something like that

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Let him curse my name
On these blood stained pages of misery
Let him call me a tyrant so cruel
Let him curse my name, but remember the truth!