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The sun rises over one of millions of hamlets where its worship is expressly forbidden.<br>
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Smoke no longer rises over the same town, but the air for ten miles in any direction still smells of it so strongly it forms a flavor on the tongue.  Under the smoke, where you'd expect to find flowers and algae and musk and all the scents of the living jungle surrounding this village, there is nothing.  It isn't overpowered, it isn't ruined.  It's absent, as though the breath of the land coughed once on its pipe and hasn't inhaled again since.  The birds have stopped singing, but they haven't left.  The high branches are full of them, silently flitting through their birdish days and nights.  Down ground level, things are a little less weird.  Rain passed through not long ago, and the road is still sucking mud, but that's half the year, here in the far southwest.  As long as you keep walking south, further from real civilization, you'd never notice a thing wrong.<br>
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Walk for an hour.  A day.  Go north and north as the sun goes west and west and marks off the end of another chance to flee.  Then look back to where your footsteps turned around, not fifty yards back.  Now do you understand?  There's something down here that won't let you leave.  The birds don't seem to be troubled by it, as they pass every which way overhead.  And maybe it's just the road.  Maybe the jungle isn't a greedy throat swallowing travelers inevitably toward its far end, because the jungle is endless.  But when you squint into the shadows, and the waving canopy creates them in abundance, the shadows plainly squint back, eyes or no.  That is no safe place, says the monkey bit of any sound brain.  That is where the Predator lives, ready to pounce on you.  Or wrap you in its coils.  Or sting you, tiny and inconsequential and perfectly deadly.  The road is a throat, but the jungle is all mouth, and the teeth drip with—<br>
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But this is lurid, and unnecessary.  The sun is rising.  For now, it's easy to ignore the shadows.  It's easy to walk on, heedless and proud, toward Sunlight Rain.  It's easy to never notice how hard it is to choose anything else.<br>
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It's not easy to get into town, though.  The palisade, however rough-hewn and inexpert, surrounds the scorched hill completely.  At the end of the road, where the buildings used to be—there are still holes where the timbers of house-stilts were uprooted—only one small, stone structure remains, wisps of smoke rising from its chimney, but not from over the town.  Sunlight Rain has moved to higher ground, and the guards are not keen on newcomers.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">"I don't think you heard me," Sun Minh growls, her voice a quiet edge tempered first by decades laying low the mighty, then by a year mired in the fetid corruption which breeds best in the deepest shadows of the Periphery, and finally by three days spent cutting a bloody swathe through a jungle which she has learned harbours in its deepest heart an undying antipathy for all the trappings of authority. They had long since been curtailed from trappings to merely trap.  Her mind wanders to the badge of office pinned at her lapel, but she resists the urge to finger it. Counterproductive. Focus. "Open the gate." A bead of sweat drips from her nose and runs down her breastplate. For the thousandth time she regrets donning it in this sweltering heat, and for the thousandth time she had done it anyway. It had been weeks since anyone had tried to stab her, but it was looking increasingly likely this unexpected streak of good fortune was about to come to an abrupt and violent end.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">"Ah! A fortune teller. Surely you have already divined the nature of the beast by consulting the entrails, then, and I may save myself the effort?"she replies, her lips curling into a mocking smile. <i>Stop wasting time</i>, she chides herself. <i>Trading barbs with this madman avails you nothing, as he knows less than nothing. If you treat with every soothsayer on top of saving every village in An Teng, you'll see the turning of the Age before you leave this accursed jungle.</i><br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">"Please Ma'm, Heinz or Mister I'm unculturedgor will do." Heinz says removing his hat once again and turning back towards the (half of a) town, arms outstretched. "I am in the business of prosperity folks. I have holdings all over this great land of ours." he states emphatically. "I come with these great herds of murfallo, who not only provide us with fine quality meat and leather, but with the clean burning dung we use to power our forges and lamplights and great big gearworking machines of all types and sizes." His hands and arms are in motion as he talks, framing swaths of land with grand sweeping motions.<br>
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She dives forward into a roll to cover the distance, lashing out with a precise jab at the location she knows his dance must carry his feet. From her crouched position she swiftly rises to her full imposing height, using her sword to prevent the next spastic twitch of his head and keep his eyes locked firmly on hers. "Your Golden Lord has found you, wretch. I bring his swift and terrible justice," her voice carrying over the explosion, wails of the dead, and the sounds of the Treem Ngoc's rampage, her eyes burning bright with Hesiesh's inner light, perfectly contained and all the more terrible for it. Having metaphorically upset the Necromancer's balance, she promptly follows up with a more concrete lesson as she plants her steel booted foot on his chest and pushes off. <i>We'll see how well he can dance under water</i>.<br>
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Ahead, up on the hill, the shambling dead have been reduced to a standstill, and one dark shape is moving rapidly through them.  But the details are impossible to make out: the sunlight and the sandstorm conspire to render nearly invisible anything beyond their immediate vicinity.  Even the dead below, hurling themselves into their master's path to provide firmer footing, are indistinct and easy to miss.  Unless you're a labor elephant being slowly traumatized into serving as a war beast; they're actually really easy to hit, in that case.  Limbs are crushed into the mud, bodies burst and flattened.  Half a dozen break away from the main pack and turn to hem in Treem Ngôc, limiting the damage to the rest of the group.  They have no real chance of harming her, without weapons, but they can contain her fury to themselves.  The rest gather protectively close to the necromancer as he moves toward the path, and the gate, where their fellows are still stumbling toward Heinz's caravan.  Mask and Sun Minh did a number on their numbers, though, and the guards are considerably better-armed than the villagers here.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Endlessly Winding River was searching the terraces for the inevitable fire-friend berries that grow in the wake of such burns. Very good medicine for fever, those, and there are plenty of infected wounds to treat, lately. Whether by circumstance or design, she found herself caught far from shelter when the fighting broke out, but very close to an earthen hollow, sheltered by charred roots and hard to see before you stumble across it. It should have been safe.  But then the dead began pouring up the hill, directly toward her.<br>
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From her bolt-hole, she can see them charge, and she can see the wounds that should prevent such exertion. Tibias jutting through the skin still manage to bear weight. Intestines dragging on the ground slither lightly over rough terrain. The lifelike dead are not merely unnatural, they are <i>wrong</i>.<br>
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And she has the best possible view as the first one to start climbing to the next level knocks over a cunningly balanced branch, releasing dozens of whippy saplings hidden under the ash. Sharpened branches pierce the flesh of the attackers and pin them to the ground, pin them to each other, even hoist one into the air. Ki-Lan bursts from cover, machete flying. But River can also see that it won't be enough. A single mortal is no match for the tireless pack of corpses, to whom injuries and pain mean nothing. Her movements grow increasingly frantic as the trapped zombies begin, inevitably, to free themselves and encircle her.<br>
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Meanwhile, back at the maelstrom, Mask's casual contribution to the chaos has borne fruit, and the fruit, all dressed in tattered black cerements, is falling heavy from the tree.  Dodging the projectiles already whipped into the air was difficult enough.  When the scholar knocks a bit of burning timber into orbit above Heinz, it soars unerringly into the necromancer's path, as though guided by sadistic intellect.<br>
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He dodges it, effortlessly.  But he dodges right out of the updraft, and plummets back to ground, back into the waist-deep mudsink, full of body parts and stained with decaying blood.  To think, it was once so busily sprouting cattails.  What water remains that is more water than filth recoils away from him.  It splashes into a high crown before he quite impacts it, and Treem Ngôc shrieks in dismay like an entire bugle corps with whooping cough.</div>
				
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He drops his bow to catch a punch, and keeps hold.  He shouts something over the general din.  It's local gibberish, of course, but Sun Minh has heard pleas for mercy often enough—albeit usually with more sobbing—to get the gist.  Heinz and Mask might recognize the words.  Heinz had better.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">As the Magistrate settles comfortably into handing out orders, Ki-Lan is dispatching the remaining dead.  Now that the urgency is diminished and she is relatively safe, the combat high seems to be giving way to grief.  She weeps as she methodically butchers her cousins, and the tremble is back in her hand.  In bitter irony, it's causing her to make sloppier, disfiguring cuts.  The machete is slowly dulling on bone, too, which doesn't help.  She wraps up her task as the prisoner is drawn near.</span><br>
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"Stop at once!" <span style="font-family: 'georgia'">she shouts suddenly. </span> "That one is still armed."  <span style="font-family: 'georgia'">And indeed, there is a contraption of saplings and small logs under considerable tension, smeared with concealing ash, at their feet.</span><br>
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"Snake-in-Pot said... He said Conqua had come back.  And I thought we could rejoice!  I thought it would be a feast-day!  What is this?  <b>What is this?</b>" <span style="font-family: 'georgia'"> As she rises from closing the last set of eyes, her fury builds.</span>  "You unearthed the dead! You insult our ancestors <b>and </b>our survivors!  You demean yourself!  How can you even call yourself <b>Tengese?</b>!" <span style="font-family: 'georgia'"> By the time she stalks over to him, her machete is practically vibrating in the tension of her grip.  If she had been worthy of the dragons, they would all be choking on a cloud of ash, or the sea in their lungs.  She opens her mouth to continue the point, but Conqua lurches forward in Sun Minh's grasp and cuts her off.</span><br>
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"Don't moralize to me, Red Eyes.  You comfort yourself with crumbling fortifications and empty prayers!  You have no faith left, and it is the only thing you have done right!  You <b>know</b> I can stop them.  I can move in the night like they can, and my militia cannot panic, cannot falter, cannot whimper in fear and pain while the beasts close in!  Do not <b>speak to me</b> of piety!  I will save these people," <span style="font-family: 'georgia'">and here he waves roughly up the hill, </span>"if they do not kill themselves!  What have <i>you </i>done?!"<br>
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