STEEL AND FLESH

THE CYTIX PRIEST ARRIVES

"So what really happened?"

A blindingly bright ribbon of lightning cut the pitch black sky outside the window, followed by a sharp drawn out crash of thunder which sounded very loud making the walls shook.

The downpour was getting harder as the storm cloud passed over the fortress that King Lauihnio was brought in to get some medical attention from the healer his uncle Lord Mordian had made mention of.

An elderly woman, though not too old due to the fact that she did not look like she was past sixty, with grey hair and slight wrinkles on her forehead was putting some herbs together which included some lavender plant, tumeric and capsaicin.

She cut the tumeric and capsaicin into little bits before putting them into a small wooden mortar where she pounded the tumeric, capsaicin and lavender plant all together.

She wore a plain red silk robe with wide sleeves and a white cloth strapped around her waist. she wore an ivory necklace with a carved little human skull hanging on it.

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