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Doloris Missi
‘Emissaries of Grief’
Two days after Einion and Briana left for Ynis Wytrin, a storm came howling in off of the distant sea. It was in the afternoon, and the morning had been sun-kissed prior to the winds. The sky turned black and angry, and the violent tempest grew more and more spiteful in the sky.
It was the sort of storm one expected in Tartarus, not upon the green earth.
Lightning set a tall tree on the slopes of the hillfort alight, and the crack and rumble of the dark skies caused even Lunaris and the children’s ponies to scream in their stalls. So much so, that Lucius ran out into the downpour to the stables to try and calm them all.
Their screams were of terror, and as he ran, he thought he spied some dark form perched atop the roof of the stable block where
