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"Alright up there?" Taeris called up.

"We need to head into the city." Hirri said. "Someone there can tell us what went wrong.  I hope so." He frowned down at their surroundings and seemed to lose some of his spirit. "I really hope so..."

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"Are you sure you don't want to be in front?" Arik remarked, not eager to see what sort of horror was awaiting them. But he summoned his courage easily and led the way all the same. The floorboards creaked beneath their feet as they approached Lena's room, and Arik pushed the door open.

What assaulted their noses first was the smell. Not sickness or rot. The heavy, wet stink of blood. Coppery, almost. It suffused the room, coated everything. The floorboards, the walls, were soaked in red. It even had made its way into the ceiling. It didn't cover everything, but in large patterns, as if it had been sprayed or flung wildly. The start of the mess seemed to have been one side of the room, near a bureau, where there was a disturbingly human-shaped bare spot on the floor.

The curtains of the dirty window were drawn. The single cot in the room had stained red in a few places. Other than that, there was a bureau, a chest, and some shelves to hold keepsakes.

As Arctus approached the party the halls widened out and grew taller. He descended a grand staircase, and soon enough he was in an area of the palace were the braziers were brighter and uniformed guards plentiful. Two stood at attention outisde the ballroom, and watched as he approached.