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I want to go home, Ham says, his voice hard. I've had enough. I want to walk the paths and range the ways. I want to smell spice-rubbed game on the fire, and drink deep from a kiln-fired tankard and be thankful that I'm alive. I want a family. I've done naught but kill and die in the last... 9... Months? Nay, eight I think. We all have.
He ambles to Nalbia's body. He looks back at Akazerath. He walks over to the body of Volstus. For a moment there's silence, and then Hamilton exhales and starts kicking the enormous corpse over and over again, and yelling.
WE COULD HAVE HAD IT, WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL WHY'D YOU HAVE TO DO IT EH? YOU LIVE IN A GODS-DAMMED CASTLE IN THE CLOUDS YOU HAVE MORE AND MORE AND YOU NEEDED MORE AND MORE AND WHY?!?!
Ketzafieronezeral opens one eye. Specifically he opens the eye furthest from the snowflake human yelling and giving him a headache. Slowly, carefully, he turns his head - playing dead and turning his head like dead people do - towards the sound.
"It may not have been, but built it has been, and here it has found itself," Vael is also puzzled. "Who would you suggest we entrust with this monument of magical might?"
"Fizzlesticks! Stupid mortals won the day. How revolting! How embarassing! Ewwwwwww. I gotta get out of here.
"In time, Zephyr Hall may once more travel the winds as a sanctuary, and may fulfill a dream held dearly by all of cloud giant-kind. For if this castle remains in Avistan, it will ever be viewed as a weapon. It is too beautiful and wondrous for that."
The mephit risks it all and opens both eyes. He turns to see the Heroes of Trunau victories. Flaming farts that's a lot of dead bodies! The mephit "heroically" sits up. He looks around, and immediately takes flight for the window.
DONK!
He bounces off the Wall of Force window.
"How long will it take to get there? Will there be winged beasts? I still need to replace that Roc. I should have tied it up before we left..."
!@E@%^ I gotta get outa here. XXXX takes to the stairs as quickly as possible.
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Fortunately, mephits don't need to eat. Two months later, noise awakens him from the nook within which he was napping.
"We need to replace the buttress here. Whatever fell landed with enough weight to buckle the supports here and here. We'll need to fill the whole area with walls of force and webs to maintain structure until we're done."
SPARKHOLE! Can't they just leave me in peace? XXX waits until the voices are gone and then scurries down, down, down, and then out.
Ketzafieronezeral leaves Zephyr Keep and finds himself in an altogether damp and cool place. It's offensive and disgusting.Quickly, before anyone spots him, the mephit rushes into one of the forge chimneys. On the otherside he finds himself in a much more comfortable room. It even has a comfortable bathing area full of molten iron!
Ooooohhhh this is going to be so good. I'm just going to take a little nap, and then get on with the shenanigans!