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[Blade Master Model 42]

"HELLO!" Valor had his blade drawn in a flash, and quickly settled into a fighting stance. "...I'm not here to take anything. Not that I know if you can understand me. Or what you are."

[Furtuka]

Derick saw Valor draw his blade and ran into the tomb

"Valor what's going on down-"

"What is that!?"

[Haspen]

@Valor:

There was no more eyes. There was only darkness. Before, behind, around Valor.

He could hear the crunching of bones under his feet. Then a light shone before him, and a young maiden materialized, pale and shining...

@Derick:

...before Derick bumped against Valor, who was standing still, and both tumbled to the ground.

Valor found himself in the familiar, dimly-lit entrance room, with those boxes and torch and everything else.

[IronyOwl]

Riven stopped playing in the snow and finally perked up.

: "Oh? Did someone find something?"

She moved over to peek inside the tomb.

[Blade Master Model 42]

Valor slowly sat up, loosely holding his sword in his off hand.

After a few moments of silence, he mumbled to himself, almost so low that Derick couldn't hear. "That was my mom..."

[Furtuka]

Derick got off the floor

"Your mom is a spooky pair of eyes?"

[Zako]

Hearing shouts from the tomb, Edwin shook his head, sighing in exasperation.

"They should know better than to mess around in a tomb like that. Judging by the owners, they were pretty well off and people like that tend to protect their tombs with latent spells and curse traps."

He began floating over towards the tomb to check things out, muttering to himself.

"They had better not have been stuck with a curse of some kind, because I'm sorely tempted to leave it on them as a lesson..."

[Blade Master Model 42]

"Don't be stupid. Didn't you see?" Valor's expression grew faraway.

"The woman who was here, just for a moment, pale, with hair the color of straw... I miss her." Valor sighed deeply, and hugged his knees to his chest against the cold, and the world. "I miss her so much."

[Haspen]

@Seyena&Charlotte:

Increasing the height helped enough to see that further east, there's a network of roads, more or less blocked by occassional pile of snow. They were leading to several single homesteads, and furhter east, to a small village. There were some people on the distant roads, but they were so small and far away, that neither Seyena nor even Charlotte could discern if they were mounted, or if those were humans at all.

[Furtuka]

"Valor I didn't see anything other than-"

"Oh..."

Derick knelt down and attempted to pat Valor on the back.

"Ey are you alright? Need to talk about it?"

[Gamerboy4life]

"This is ridiculous, they shouldn't be more than... fifteen, twenty minutes away. I can't even see them anywhere..." Seyena moaned, growing annoyed at the failure. "Let's go check a little bit to the east, and if we still can't find them, then we'll head back."

With those words, Seyena spurned Ilya forward at an alarming pace, looking for any sign of the mounted mages. Check on those far away people provided it's no longer than a mile or two.

[Xanmyral]

"Hehe, meself, Oi was more north, near the coast an' all tha'. Gotta say, yah managed ta do ah good job wit' tha accent. Oi've tried once 'er twice ta get rid o' moine, but it be ah touch 'ard when yah think loike this, yeah? Sticks fer ah week 'er two 'fore slippin' roight back. Ain' got tha "talkin' from the tongue'" thin' down." He paused as he put a bit more strength into his next blow to the earth, driving it through a thicker piece of rock and permafrost.

"East, near the border yah say? 'Magine tha, we may o' actually crossed paths 'fore... Though Oi suppose Oi wouldn' ah stuck 'round ta long considerin'."

[Blade Master Model 42]

"So, it was just more pointless magic then?" Valor said, sadly. "That's too bad. It's been so long. Hell, I haven't even been home in years, much less visited... The grave."

Valor lifted his head, staring at the ceiling without seeing. "You have any family Derick? Mine is all gone. What there was of it."

[Haspen]

@Valor:

Valor noticed that the ceiling was infested by many, many black spiders that were looking down at him.

@Seyena:

As the pegasus went eastwards, Seyena and her companion girl could see that there were not one, but several horsemen groups. Some looked like travelers, some were definitely knights on patrol. Plus one should not dismiss the several horses tied near various homesteads in the closest village.

[Furtuka]

"Mine too. Bandit attack a long time ago. After that all I had were Sarius and Old George."