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The Dwarves of Shadow
The Presence has returned, of that there can be no doubting. Thorrin stands on the other side of the barrier with prisoners. All that have stood before them have been either destroyed or have fled and there is none to dispute their place before the Presence. The drumming changes its cadence and swells once more, filling the halls of the tower with the confident and unrelenting brutality of its song. Those without drums strike their weapons against their shields. From the other side of the barrier, the voice of Thorrin, deep and resonant, intones the words of the song of their defiance and of their triumph. As one the others join the chorus and the upper reaches of the tower shake under the strength of the song:
And it’s go, boys, go!
They’ll time your every breath.
And every day you’re in this place,
you’re two days nearer death.
But you goooooooooooooo! *
They are the sons of Terrakis, and their place is here and there is nothing but death for any that would contest their claim.
* From the Chemical Worker’s Song by Great Big Sea
[ 06-02-2006, 03:28 PM: Message edited by: Cyril Darkcloud ]
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