Chapter Seven
By Kavnil

Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
Added 08/08/2002.

Nahsimo: "Who is there?" A silence came over the room. "Who is beating on the door?"

Kavnil: "It is Kavnil a Lugian, and I ask for peace."

Nahsimo: "A Lugian that asks for peace? We do not have peace with the Lugians!"

Eleanor Elsa: "I am Eleanor Elsa, the daughter of Richard the Great. Please, we do come in peace!"

Nahsimo: "What is this? A Lugian that travels with a human? How is this so?"

Kavnil: "Dereth has been destroyed! I have seen it with my own eyes."

Nahsimo: "What? How do you know it's destroyed?"

Kavnil: "The fire came from the sky and burned everything. Dereth opened up, fire came out of the ground like water and filled the entrance of the cave. The lands are moving with a great quaking."

Nahsimo: "Oh, that's why I felt great movements in the cave. It has nullified my magic. My name is Nahsimo. Please come in, peace be with us."

Eleanor Elsa: "Thank you, Nahsimo. It was my father's dream to bring peace to Dereth and now it is my dream."

Kavnil: "I also feel this dream inside of me."

Nahsimo: "No way this can happen, it would take a great Cataclysm to spark peace in Dereth. Not to mention a great effort from the races of Dereth."

Kavnil: "We are all three in this room, at peace, are we not?"

Nahsimo: "Yes, but my people are not a peaceable race."

Eleanor Elsa: "If we can have peace in this small way than it is possible to have great peace."

Nahsimo: "Well, that's all well and good but I am afraid we are all stuck here to die."

Kavnil: "We will wait out the movements of Dereth and then you can summon a portal out of here for us all."

Eleanor Elsa: "Just like my father did for me to get here with his portal gem."

Nahsimo: "That might be a long time before it stops. Portal gem! I almost forgot! Oh, but it might not work."

Kavnil together with Eleanor Elsa: "What?"

Nahsimo: "A spell I was working on but I never tested it. It might not even be a real spell. I learned about it in an old scroll I found on a quest."

Kavnil: "Oh, but magic doesn't work now anyway."

Nahsimo: "No, it's a gem! The magic is in the gem and will work anywhere. But I don't know if it will work or for how long."

Eleanor Elsa: "What does the spell do?"

Nahsimo: "It has something to do with sleep. But what exactly I don't know. It's from the blood of the Carenzi, they sleep for long periods of time."

Kavnil: "We have to try it. We can sleep and maybe Dereth will be still when we wake up."

Eleanor Elsa: "I agree."

Nahsimo pulls the tie string on the tusker hide sack with the gem in it. As it opens a ray of light beams out of the sack, glistening all around the room.

Eleanor Elsa: "Its so beautiful!"

Kavnil: "Just do it!"

Nahsimo holds the gem over his head chanting than smashes the gem on the ground. A fountain of light, amethyst in color, surrounded them like a reflection from a great crystal. Its brilliance was wonderful and so soothing to watch. We just couldn't stop watching the lights. It made us feel so good. Than it all stopped!

Kavnil: "What happened?"

Nahsimo: "It didn't work!"

Eleanor Elsa: "No! Look! The door! We made it!"

The door was rotted away and the hinges were still there but all rusted through.

Kavnil: "But we didn't sleep. Or did we? And how much time has passed to do that to the door?"

Nahsimo: "The ground is still. I'll try to summon a portal now!" Tap! Tap! Tap! A portal opens. "Everyone in! It's a safe drop." All three of us go into the portal together.