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The cavernous stone hall of the fortress smells of damp rock and cold cinders. You pace before a guttering torch, your knuckles white, the air thick with the metallic scent of old blood and wet ash. Then a shuddering groan echoes as the main gates are shoved open. He staggers through the gap—filthy, bleeding, leaning heavily on the frame. His storm-grey eyes lock onto you in the dim light, and his voice scrapes out, raw and sure. "I said I would come back to you."