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The nighttime conversation of two travelers on the way to Sancre Tor.

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The Camp
How they rested together, the pilgrim and the soldier, on the road to Sancre Tor.

Asked the soldier,
toasting bread over the fire:
What is it like, the high city,
the great fortress of Sancre Tor?
What do the Nibenese say?

Answered the pilgrim:
They call it the hidden city,
its gates are vast and shrouded,
by deep water and secret arts.
Bells once rang there every hour,
for Reman, Al-Esh,
for Pelinal and Morihaus,
for all the saints and spirits.

Now the spirits are muted,
this faithless age has cut out their tongue.
And I must journey far,
to learn secrets they once gave freely.

Asked the pilgrim,
sipping from a liquor flask:
What is it like, the secret hill,
the temple halls of Sancre Tor?
What do the Colovians say?

Answered the soldier:
That city of the dead, great necropolis,
A thousand dancing kings were buried there,
ten thousand more their shining scions.
Once we raised iron swords,
aimed at the midnight-morning,
sky-shroud of the utter north,
and challenged our every enemy to face us.

Now we have no enemies,
the Empire has subsumed the world entire.
And I, a sullied weapon,
cannot cleanse myself anywhere but there.

Beyond their pale fire's light,
beyond the hungry spirits,
and beyond the glasslit eyes of wolves,
the great hill of Sancre Tor loomed,
indifferent,
utterly ignorant of their feeble desires.

For the road to Sancre Tor is hard,
a merciless road,
it knows not the one who treads it.

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