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GALADRIA (They quickly mount their horses and ride East. They round a bend and suddenly confront a rotting cottage. The wind is from the east, and it carries a carrion smell. She casts the spell, Detect Evil, and is almost overwhelmed by the reaction coming from that cottage. They halt and dismount, moving carefully toward the cottage. She lightly touches her Negative Plane Protection Amulet, that she treasues so. Sir Blandamour had given it to her years ago, after a battle that had taken place on her birthday. He had seen it on a corpse and bent over to take it up. She had come closer to see, and she still recalled how his face had lit up, then shuttered again, at the sight of her. "Here, Galadria," he had said, "It's your natal annivesary, I hear, today. This thing has obviously come to my hand for it to be a gift to you. Certes, I've no use for such things." She wondered if he had any memory of doing that.)
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