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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 28, 2015 11:25:01 GMT -5
Several days after Robyn leaves, a massive event in the sky occurs; a red star piercing through the black clouds and opening the sky, shining so brightly that the stars can be seen even though it is broad daylight, splinters of red blasting to the earth from it as it pummels the landscape. The earth shakes and the Wall cracks in places from the impact but it doesn't break. A huge wildfire is seen and the ground itself groans in seeming pain as the pressure continues. As the red energy hits the ground, debris is flung thousands of feet in the air, a tree starting north of the Wall and being flung clear over it to the south.
After a few minutes the event ends, and as the earth settles down the silence is deafening in its totality.
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 28, 2015 18:18:08 GMT -5
Benjen stood at the top of the Wall, watching the big blinding inferno ensue. He shields his eyes, not wanting to go blind and inside he feels a dread. He prayed to the gods that his sister would live.
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Post by Ser Titus Grafton on Aug 28, 2015 20:27:31 GMT -5
Titus felt the earth shake and heard the deafening cracks, booms and clangs and went running out of his castle room, fearing the Castle was coming down around him. Once outside, the shaking of the ground buckled his legs and dropped him prostrate in a puddle of mud. He felt a searing heat, his only thought was one of sheer terror. Debris crashed around him as he attempted to shield his head as he begged the Gods he didn't believe in to save him from the fate he'd so desperately been yearning for for. And then, just like that, it ended. He looked up, dazed, before stumbling to his feet to see what there was to see.
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 29, 2015 7:18:42 GMT -5
Near the Wall little enough seems permanently changed in this area, save the creaking of the Wall, sounding as it though it screams now and again as tiny fractures in it echo across the countryside. To the north is where the true devastation has been wrought; a charred beam of blackness a hundred fifty yards wide visible, gouging out a hole in the land nearly forty feet deep in places. The soldiers are chattering away about what happened as the event could fairly be described as unprecedented.
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Post by Ser Titus Grafton on Aug 29, 2015 9:15:54 GMT -5
Titus began to compose himself as he realized that the world was not immanently. Hearing the men who'd been outside to witness the entire event repeatedly describing the particulars that they had seen, he decided to get up the wall and have a look from above. The sporadic pops and creaks of cracking ice were unnerving, but eventually he reached the top and saw that the wall, for the most part seemed solid and much as it had before. Looking out over the northern edge he saw the devastation. He saw Prince Benjen and made his way over. "What do you make of it?" he asked, through shallow breaths. "Was it some type of sorcery?"
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 29, 2015 9:22:04 GMT -5
"It was," Benjen said, a slightly pained and worried expression on his face. "Very powerful sorcery." He looked at Titus. "Oriax had stored a lot of magical energy, which he planned to unleash on the Wall to melt it. My sister... went north to change the direction of the energy." He looked back north again. "It may have cost her her life."
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Post by Ser Titus Grafton on Aug 29, 2015 9:41:15 GMT -5
"Gods," Titus said, slack jawed, feeling grossly under prepared for the world he'd just recently rejoined. "If she's got the same blood as you, I imagine she's fine, Benjen. How many times should you be dead by now?" He stood quietly, looking over the Prince for a few seconds. "And if the cost was her life, the whole realm will live forever in her debt and gratitude."
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 29, 2015 9:47:49 GMT -5
Benjen gave a dark chuckle at that. "I don't even know how dead I should be, Titus. The Old Gods are looking after me, it seems." He gave a brisk nod and turned away from the destruction. "She knew what she was doing was for the benefit of millions of people. If... if she did die for this the world will know what she did."
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Post by Ser Titus Grafton on Aug 29, 2015 9:54:25 GMT -5
"I'd help you see to that," Titus nodded. "But enough of the dark thoughts. She's got a nice clear road to follow back on her return," he said, pointing at the huge gouge through the forest. "Nobody likes trudging through the underbrush."
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 29, 2015 10:12:44 GMT -5
"It'll be a very obvious and easy route back," Benjen admitted, a small smile on his face. "How about we go down from this icy deathtrap," he kicked some rubble off the Wall, "and have a drink?"
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Post by Ser Titus Grafton on Aug 29, 2015 10:34:37 GMT -5
Titus nodded his approval. "Something hot," he added.
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