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Kalam Easthome
Kalam, solemn and silent led Turin and Therlion towards the house under which the tunnel led out from the town. Even a preliminary inspection was enough to show that several orcs, maybe a dozen had died trying to enter the house. The underground passageway leading out of the town was however collapsed and they could not go that way.
They collected their horses and exited the still smoking town through the destroyed main gate. About two dozen bodies were thrown around the town gates. Looking at them Kalam recognized four of them and a tear appeared in his eye. Friends he would never see again, people he had known. Why had this mindless destruction happened?
He spoke for the first time after leaving the town next to a small stream in the plains, where they had stopped to let the horses drink, an hour later.
"Tell me Turin, if all this is over, and we find those we are looking for, what would you do? I would need men as yourself, when I rebuild all my family has lost."
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