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"Are you - okay?" Brisingr asks, paying attention properly.

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She lets out a long string of curses in Draconic. The earth quakes slightly at some of these.

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Her wings rustle, and she folds in on herself a bit. "Should I go?"

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"Karkunaj. No. You, at least, are not resigned to an inevitable doom and therefore ensure its passage."

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She tilts her head. "He was that bad?"

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She hisses. "'The nature of wonder in this world is to fade away with time', he said. As if that is right. As if there is nothing to be done about it."

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"A lot of old dragons seem to think that too," she says, thoughtfully. "I got told to be cautious I don't sing away all my power a lot." Shrug. "'Course, lots of the old dragons end up dead, too."

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"The death of failures. I have no intention of emulating them. Nor do you."

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"Yeah. We're going to do what they never could," she says with a purr.

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"What they are too afraid to consider."

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Heeee. "We'll win everything."

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Thorin's Company approaches the day after, Thorin and Russet in the lead. Several of Thorin's dwarves appear nervous, though Thorin's keeping them calm.

"Ellisaria. Brisingr," he says.

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"Dwarf. You have come to the mountain."

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"Yes. We have sent word to our kinsmen, and wish to begin preparations for greater numbers to arrive."

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"Good, Enter, then."

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He gestures to his men, who head for the mountain entrance with only a few nervous glances at the dragons.

"There is something I would talk to you about - information I have, and a boon I would ask."

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"Speak. I will listen."

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"A little under a thousand years ago, the dwarven nation of Khazad-dûm was destroyed by a creature of fire and shadow we call Durin's Bane, and the mountains there claimed by it. We don't know its full nature, nor why it attacked. I would ask you to investigate, and kill it if you would name it enemy, so that the dwarves may reclaim that mighty hall as well, and another scourge be removed from the world."

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Creature of fire and shadow could almost describe her.

"Where is this Khazad-dûm?"

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He pulls out a map, indicating where they are - upper right - and where the two known entrances to the underground mansion are - in the southern half of a long mountain spine down the map's middle. "Though only the Eastern Gate is accessible from without; the trick to opening the West Gate is lost."

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"What is the trick to the East Gate?"

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"It was left unlocked, and was still open as of a few decades ago."

"There are - or were - other paths, beside, great roads that ran down from Gundabad, but we don't know what conditions they're in, or if the orcs infesting the upper levels have bored new holes, and the two Gates are the most direct way in."

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"Hm. I will consider your request."

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"Very well. That is all I ask."

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"I'm sure you have much to attend to."

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