diff --git a/calvin-meets-elder-in-temple.txt b/calvin-meets-elder-in-temple.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60b2dec --- /dev/null +++ b/calvin-meets-elder-in-temple.txt @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +—Welcome, President Calvin! + +—Thank you, Elder Caprina, Calvin replied. + I know we gave very little notice, but I believe it's a matter of grave importance for Galvarelli. + +—Oh, don't worry about that, Calvin. + Do you mind terribly if I call you Calvin? + I always get a bit flustered trying to figure out whatever other titles people want to be called. + +Calvin nodded. + +—Wonderful. + Call my Caprina too, there's no need for any of that Elder nonsense. + You're worried because of Yakaterina's warning, right? + +—How did you know? + +—Calvin, it's my duty here at the Temple to know these things. + Anyway, Yakaterina wrote often before her arrest. + She studied here, you know. + Probably more diligent than any other Hierarch, until she decided to test the freedom's your predecessor gave her. + I felt her death, through the Meadowlark. + I shall miss her passing, although I regret her ambition. + Anyway, the New Voice. + + I felt it myself. + A gentle whisper, at first. + But it grew, and I felt it attacking my mind. + I assumed it was a mistake, and tried to follow the source back to whoever created the attack. + + However, as I did, I found only hatred and malice at its source. + I was only just able to escape back to myself. + Only fragments of information came to me, the most important of which being the great distance that separated me from the attacker. + But it was too far for me to travel, and I felt it was not my fight to win. + I resolved myself to remain here, helping any who were being afflicted by the terrible insanity the New Voice inflicted upon them. + +—Is that something you could help me teach others? + To fight the Voice's hold on the mind? + +—I'm afraid not, Calvin. + Not unless we could go to each person, one at a time, giving them centuries of training. + But there's more. + Calvin, do you know about the creation of our kinds? + +Calvin shook his head, lightly. +Whatever he did know would be embarrassingly small in front of an Elder. + +—It goes back, all the way back. + To the legacy of the Fourth and Fifth Races, Man and Beast. + The Ancestral Voices, which became known as the Great Voices, helped them commune with the powers of the Sentries of old. + But they were not alone. + The Aery was founded and grew, a seed around which the Birds became a society. + The Voice of the Birds had always been hard to hear, but the Birds acting at one gave it great power. + And then, it became obvious that balance was needed. + The Hidden Lands were created, for the Voiced Beasts, Voiced Birds and the Voiced Men, who became the Dwarrowfolk, alone. + + The Unvoiced you enjoy so much were kept alone for their own safety, although as you know they thrived. diff --git a/dinneratwestgate.txt b/dinneratwestgate.txt index 9a35fd2..a89b239 100644 --- a/dinneratwestgate.txt +++ b/dinneratwestgate.txt @@ -78,13 +78,13 @@ Calvin kept his eyes low, thinking for a moment before answering. Calvin, the Elder is a mountain goat stuck indoors and the dwarrow templars will have nothing better to do. There's more as well. This Elder has been warning us about a Curse of some kind. - He was sick for a little while, couldn't say how, but recovered. - Sent a message to the Border towns that if any sick Beasts came through, to send them to him for healing. + She was sick for a little while, couldn't say how, but recovered. + Sent a message to the Border towns that if any sick Beasts came through, to send them to her for healing. Not sure if it's related, but it was a couple months ago. Timing lines up. Anyway, I'm sure he'll have more to say. Eat up, and we can get to work after. - + The remainder of the dinner went smoothly, with Brother Kab there to chat to Chief about travel plans in Border. Calvin, meanwhile, seemed to withdraw into himself a bit.