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Barin
After his meeting, Barin returns to his room where he sleeps for a few hours before waking up feeling clammy and tense. His dreams had been flashbacks of his mother dragging him out of bed and through the burning city of Bulandon before it had fallen. His father hadn’t warned his mother when they were going to attack. He remembers the buildings crumbling around him and the magick. He knows what it was now but then, when he had first seen it, it had terrified him. He still feels the hair on the back of his neck rises whenever he sees the black coils.
He goes to the water pitcher and splashes cool water on his face and neck, trying to wash away the memories that he knows are going to haunt him for the next few weeks as he stays in Bulandon. He grabs a towel off the stand and begi
