From: "Benjamin Tate" <boy_devil@hotmail.com>

Sabian paused, catching his breath and straining to hear.  The sounds of 
pursuit had drifted away a bit ago, but he had given himself an extra few 
minutes just to be sure.  Now as he gathered in the sounds of the forest, he 
heard nothing except the small creatures that lived here.

And then the explosion sounded.  It wasn't a massive explosion, but it was 
definitely man made and it definitely came from Norwall. Ka'Laren. Sabian 
made his way back towards the warren, careful on the off chance that some 
guards had slipped through and were now about in the forest. But thankfully 
there didn't appear to be any and Sabian made his way back to Norwall 
unhindered.

He reached the entry tunnel · empty.  Creeping ever so slowly, he moved inch 
by inch through the tunnel.  When he finally made it through, he stopped and 
took in the scene before him.  Norwall was a disaster · and something inside 
Sabian told him this wasn't just Ka'Laren.  Something else was going on 
here.  Bodies were littered about the green, from the looks of things the 
bodies were those of Norwall members and some guards of Lord Harrkkon.  
Maybe·

He whirled around at the sound of feet.  Two of Harrkkon's guards appeared.  
Sabian shuddered.  Their eyes · their eyes were dead, just like the other 
man he had seen earlier.  Then he had attributed it to an enemy of Norwall, 
but the look he got now from these two made him believe that they were the 
enemy of any who crossed their path.

Crossbow out and fired in a second, Sabian shifted to the second of the 
approaching figured.  But the first didn't drop like Sabian had expected.  
He looked to see where his arrow had landed and nearly jumped when he saw 
sticking clearly out of the man's throat.  He did seem to be in pain, but 
not dead.  Still coming.  Sabian dropped the crossbow and the two men came 
at him.  His knives came out and he slashed.  The two hit him in a rush 
nonetheless, apparently unfazed by his attacks.  On the ground, Sabian 
pushed up with his knife felt it puncture flesh and kept pushing.  A groan 
came from the first, the one previously wounded, and he finally gave up his 
hellish spirit and rolled to the ground.  The other, however, was still 
quite alive and his hand was quite thoroughly choking the life out of 
Sabian.  His visions began to get spots and the creeping of panic came.  He 
was stabbing the man's arms repeatedly, but to no real avail.  His lungs 
screamed at him, but as hard as he fought, nothing lessened.

And then it was gone.  He sucked in a huge breath and waited for everything 
to clear up.  When he looked, he saw his attacker dead, his head neatly 
split and a younger man, splattered from head to toe in blood, staring at 
him.

"You picked a bad time to visit us, friend."

Apparently he thought Sabian was a traveler.  Best to go with that.

"Apparently.  What's going on?"

"From what I've heard, most of Lord Harrkkon's men are Hellspawn · are you 
familiar with them?"

Sabian shuddered.  "I've heard of them."

"You seemed to be pretty handy with those knives · we could use all the help 
we can get.  Just remember that you need to kill these guys · wounding them 
doesn't do any good."

Sabian's normally friendly eyes went hard and cold for a split second, then 
returned back.  "I can handle that."

"Good.  Let's see if we can find some organized group.  By the way, my name 
is Roz."

Sabian smiled.  "Good to meet you.  My name is Sabian."


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NRPG: Just something to get Sabian back into the warren.  Hope you didn't 
mind me using Roz, Les.  Micheal, don't have S'ron recognize Sabian just yet 
· save that for a little later.  I'll have a post with Galen out at sometime 
· my semester is just about over, so it's time to pack and go home.

Ben Tate
Sabian

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