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THE MYSTERIUM XARXES - BOOK TWO
 
THE MYSTERIUM XARXES - BOOK TWO
 
THE MYSTERIUM XARXES - BOOK ONE
 
THE MYSTERIUM XARXES - BOOK ONE
 
DANCE IN FIRE
 
DANCE IN FIRE
 
NIGHT FALLS ON SENTINEL
 
NIGHT FALLS ON SENTINEL
 
THE CAKE AND THE DIAMOND
 
THE CAKE AND THE DIAMOND
 
LAST DANCE
 
LAST DANCE
 
CHANCE'S FOLLY
 
CHANCE'S FOLLY
 
SERMON TWO
 
SERMON TWO
 
SERMON ONE
 
SERMON ONE
 
BREATHING WATER
 
BREATHING WATER
 
REDGUARD COMIC BOOK
 
REDGUARD COMIC BOOK
 
THE ARMORER'S CHALLENGE
 
THE ARMORER'S CHALLENGE
 
A HYPOTHETICAL TREACHERY
 
A HYPOTHETICAL TREACHERY
 
 
A Hypothetical Treachery
 
DOLCETTUS: By Stendarr, of all the mean, conniving, typically Argonian --

INZOLIAH: And why do you need me alive?

SCHIAVAS: I don't necessarily. Except that you're prettier than the other two, for a smoothskin that is. And if something comes after us, it might go for you first.

There is a noise in some bushes nearby.

SCHIAVAS: Go check that out.

INZOLIAH: It's probably a wolf. These woods are filled with them. You check it out.

SCHIAVAS: You have a choice, Inzoliah. Go and you might live. Stay here, and you definitely won't.

Inzoliah considers and then goes to the bushes.

SCHIAVAS (to Malvasian and Dolcettus): The king of Silvenar will pay good money for the Mail, and we can divide it more nicely between three than four.

INZOLIAH: You're so right.

Inzoliah suddenly levitates up to the top of the stage. A semi-transparent Ghost appears from the bush and rushes at the next person, who happens to be Schiavas. As the barbarian screams and thrashes at it with his sword, it levels blasts of whirling gas at him. He crumbles to the ground. It turns next to Dolcettus, the healer, and as the Ghost focuses its feasting chill on the hapless Dolcettus, Malvasian casts a ball of flame at it that causes it to vaporize into the misty air.

Inzoliah floats back down to the ground as Malvasian examines the bodies of Dolcettus and Schiavas, who are both white-faced from the draining power of the ghost.

MALVASIAN: You had some magicka reserved after all.

INZOLIAH: So did you. Are they dead?

Malvasian takes the potion of healing from Dolcettus's pack.

MALVASIAN: Yes. Fortunately, the potion of healing wasn't broken when he fell. Well, I guess this leaves just the two of us to collect the reward.

INZOLIAH: We can't get out of this place without each other. Like it or not.

The two battlemages pick up the chest and begin plodding carefully through the undergrowth, pausing from time to time at the sound of footsteps or other eerie noises.

MALVASIAN: Let me make sure I understand. You have a little bit of magicka left, so you elected to use it to make Schiavas the ghost's target, forcing me to use most of my limited reserve to destroy the creature so I wouldn't be more powerful than you. That's first-rate thinking.

INZOLIAH: Thank you. It's only logical. Do you have enough power to cast any other spells?
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