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A disturbance in the night....

You drift out of the comfortable darkness that is sleep. Groaning, you realize that you are returning to reality. It is at this exact moment, when you are contemplating returning to sleep, that you realize SOMETHING woke you up!

You lie quietly, trying to determine what it may have been that disturbed your slumber. You take a deep breath and smell something strange with your new, powerful nose. You recognize it as human, but not as any specific human.

Suddenly, you feel something being sprinkled onto you, sand or dirt or something. You open your eye a slit and see a wizened old man sprinkling white sand over your body. You watch him curiously for a moment, then you hear him say something.

"Akra Minarha, Shirak!"

There is a flash of light. You attempt to leap to your feet, but all you can do is turn your head and open your eyes.

The man looks at you and sees you looking at him with death in your eyes. "Ah, you were awake during my spell. Otherwise, you'd be incapable of even waking up until the spell is broken or you died, just like your friend there. Since you're awake I guess I'll explain what I'm doing. Every 10 years I need to drain a life force to continue living. Lucky for me that I managed to catch two of you and so I won't need to do it for another 20 years! So just hold still" he bursts out laughing at this "and it will be over in a moment."


Written by S. Mundane (edited by wanderer)

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