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The Ravine
Out of the desperate gasps of prayer come light, silent and burning into the darkness of this place. More than sunlight, however, is this light for something of the life of the woman through whom it passes moves within it. Together then, life and light burst forward and for an instant all is as if the sun itself had made its home here at the bottom of the ravine. The grasping Hunger is met by the onrushing light borne forward on the life that it seeks. Willingly light and life enter the grasping emptiness even as they strike newly uncovered soil wherein the Hunger lies. Elsewhere there is a shrill howling of mournful notes of pain and the scent of rotted flesh burning away to nothing. At the base of the ravine, however, all is silent within the terrible radiance of unfiltered sun. Dark things that had moved once more into this place with the passing of the storms perish in the silent fire of the light. Even shielded eyes are burned, so bright is the light, a light that penetrates all shadow and allows no corner for darkness to shield itself. Unending it seems to be this shining of the light, but that is not so for its shining forth is intensely brief and intensely violent with the violence of light against darkness. Soon it passes, this terrible radiance that has brought such stunning daylight to this darkest of places and in its passing the darkness that meets the eyes seems greater even than before.
All, however, is not as it was, for an emptiness great and terrible has been purged from this place and a grasping appetite has been destroyed.
ooc: The Hunger is destroyed as was the banewolf.
Ana - You have lost 2 points of constitution and have expended all spell levels. Needless to say you are also exhausted to the point of collapsing.
Ruby, Wyrd and Arcades - Some eye damage is unavoidable. magical and psychic healing should restore basic sight in short order and a few days’ time will return the rest.
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