Beyond the Veil

[Sh'ozak Ma'hk'null]

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A cold winter wind whipped through, scattering flower petals and carrying the voice forward: "We know well The Wild Hunt's achievements. Achievements made with their own limbs, their own resource, and their own will. Their achievements are not your own, and this is accented by your request. You come before us, not as The Wild Hunt, but as the shell Einbeck. Do not call upon The Wild Hunt's achievement as your own. Know thyself. You have asked for that which is received for glories and histories as a means to obtain glories and histories, and we have taken note of that."

A second wind blows through, the warm spring wind, which let the petals fall and rest. "Yet, we may make of this an exchange", they continued. A vision made itself clear, a brief notation by a wandering shell:

"This is the battered remains of one warshell that defended the Cursed Rock as it fell. They called it Isis, a protector. We shall make it Hapi, a crushing flood. Bring it to us from the Cursed Ocean, and we shall grant you our resources. We desire to make of it a banner of pain for the Cursed Shells. A banner of shame. To tear open the wound of loss anew, and therein drive them to inaccurate action that can be taken advantage of."

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