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You begin to sing "Damaris' Kiss" by the famed bard Silvyrfrost. |
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<pre> |
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"Clever Meraud in his tall tower |
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Kept Hodierna locked in flower-strewn bower |
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Weeping she was, alone and ashamed |
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Wound up in twisting, |
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and twisting |
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Stone chains." |
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"Kertigen stalked the halls of his home |
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Empty of laughter, lightless and alone |
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In siege were his men, his creatures, his ravens |
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Besieging the tower, |
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the tower, |
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With all his creations." |
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"For two years they'd fought on trampled ground |
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For two years Meraud had beaten them down |
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His prisoner kept as his magic met the attack |
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With only Kertigen's words |
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his word |
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Sending them back." |
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"And rapidly the war was closing too tight |
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And Kertigen it seemed must lose the fight |
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But now in the absence of the day's brilliant light |
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The Lord of Smiths called |
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he called |
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The bleak Lord of Night." |
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"Nightclad he enters, and draws very near |
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Softly he speaks, saying, 'You called me here. |
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'To partake in a war that is not worth the fight. |
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'Yet you are in right, |
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'Our brother is not. |
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'And yes I will end it, for the right price.'" |
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"Kertigen glowers, but agrees for his woes |
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But the price he requires, Damaris does not disclose |
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Nodding he slips from the raven Lord's home |
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And turning he ventures |
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He ventures |
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Alone." |
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"Through Kertigen's men he passes like a breeze |
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And approaches the tower with a swift, silent ease |
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Spreading his hands he melds with the stars |
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And drops sands of sleep |
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of dreams |
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On Meraud's creatures of war." |
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"Now the tower is silent, for the golems have stopped |
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The warfield is empty, for his elementals have dropped |
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The engines that spewed fire, trouble no more |
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And now Damaris slips |
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he slips |
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Through Meraud's study door." |
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"Meraud frowns in anger when he sees his brother's form |
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His rage gathers round him like a winter's chill storm |
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And brings down the lightning on Damaris' smiling face |
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Only to find |
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To scream at! |
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An illusion in the bleak god's place." |
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"Damaris crept to the bower whilst his brother fought a shadow |
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And released Hodierna from her chains amidst the storm's glow |
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With a cry of joy she leapt from that place |
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Changing |
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and Changing |
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To a unicorn, home swiftly raced." |
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"And back with her husband who drew her in his arms |
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And promised her no more would she come to harm |
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Till Damaris approached and reminded in voice soft |
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Of the bargain |
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that freed |
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Hodierna from Meraud's loft." |
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"Damaris smiled as Kertigen clenched his fists |
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As the dark-eyed god took Hodierna by the wrist |
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'Do not take her!' said the raven Lord wise |
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But Damaris just laughed |
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And laughed |
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At his cries." |
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"'This I must tell you.' (Damaris closer draws.) |
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'Your war I thought useless till your lady I saw.' |
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And kneeling he gazed at the lady many wished to command |
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And smiling he took her |
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by the wrist..." |
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"And merely kissed |
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the back of her hand." |
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"Then like shadows he vanished, with a laugh and a smile |
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Leaving Kertigen and Hodierna bemused for a while |
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And when night's cloak is drawn down by Damaris' fist |
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Hodierna lifts her hand |
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gazing on it |
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and smiles...." |
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"As if it were kissed." |
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</pre> |
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The song closes. |
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Revision as of 17:10, 27 February 2009
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