<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/67/Wild_Heart.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/TqFBCOC.jpg)</div><strong>Canticle of Universal Harmony</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pVvl616Dk4SatgHZfgCxQwdjl3HS8NZTlF8jDehN0sU/edit)<br/><strong>Wild Heart</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PuOoLAzftVeI9-B_pX5av5C-Hnyeo8LindJvfbDJtbA/edit)<br/><br/>Canticle looked into the man's eyes as he died, trying to let him know that he was not alone.  It was not the first time she'd done so.  she gasped a little bit, though, at the flare of essence from him, and the mark on his foerhead.  She didn't let go of his hand.<br/><br/>"He was one of us," Canticle said, surprised.  She placed the dead man's hand over his heart and absently picked up the prayer strip.  She turned to the one armed man.  "Fortune, his mark was the same as yours.  He did something with his essence at the end, do you know what?"<br/><br/><div align="center">*   *   *</div><br/>The raven haired girl rose when the Wood Spiders approached, still holding the prayer strip.  Canticle touched Kiko gently on the shoulder.  “They're peaceful.”<br/><br/>“Today at least,” Wild Heart agreed, cheerfully enough.<br/><br/>“They speak Old Realm,” she continued, “The accent is thick but I understand it.”<br/><br/>Her cunning mind interpreted the clicking dialect smoothly, even matching it somewhat as she replied,<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Old Realm</div><div class="spoiler_body">“This man was blessed to have friends such as yourselves.  I pray you, what was his name?  And that of his son?”</div></div>Canticle stepped back from the dead man to let the spiders draw nearer.<br/><br/><div align="center">*   *   *</div><br/>Wild Heart flashed Kiko a smile, “We should prepare to track these bandits.  Let's find the trail, Kiko.”<br/><br/>Canticle studied the prayer strip carefully, trying to identify it's function.  She read the words quietly.  Brown eyes glowed gold as the mark of Twilight appeared on her forehead as Canticle called upon her anima to open her eyes and ears to the universal harmony that was the essence within all things.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Some Dice</div><div class="spoiler_body">Percpetion + Awareness: 2<br/>Inteligence + Occult: 8<br/>Percpetion+ Socialize: 4<br/></div></div>