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The Tower – The Chamber of the Husk
They sway in position to the beating of the drums whose sound reaches through the tower even to this place where they keep vigil over the Husk that once was Brendon Grey. There is some sort of ichor on the blades of their axes and the broken bodies of two creatures of shadow lie at their feet. Frightened perhaps by the terrible sound of the drumming the creatures bolted into this chamber. The reason for their appearance mattered not. Nor did their being creatures long accustomed to moving through these halls, for the orders Thorrin had given were clear. “Slaughter all who would approach the Husk.” As one the axes, eight of them, were swung. In time to the drumming they struck. Without pity they cut into that which both was and was not flesh. Nothing else has even attempted entry into the chamber. Still, however, the dwarves keep their vigil, hands gripping axes and bodies swaying in time to the beating of the drums. And behind them the lifeless Husk that once was Grey stands, safe from further harm, a hatred for all that lives burning still in its eyes.
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