The Telling of the Three - Part Two
Etag is dying. You see that now. He says, "The Black Curse will take me. There is no possible way for me to have the healing done now." His eyes droop a moment. His lips are dark with congealed blood, as are his fingertips. His eyes seem shadowy and bloodshot. "I must speak of things before I die. You must survive."
He coughs and then looks at the bloody sputum in his hand. "I have only hours, and the delirium and insanity will rob my brain even before then."
He takes a deep breath. Speaking only comes with effort. "I must tell you of the Telling of the Three, and of this mountain, and these lands, and all the changes wrought among them." He pauses, squinting in pain, and then says, "Changes wrought by you, I think." He nods toward Borimer and Kahan. "You wield the Deathbane and the Godslayer. I knew you would come."
He tries to hold his head up proudly for a moment and says, "My name is Faerl Yorthaeyorn, as I told you. But I am called 'Etag' because long ago I reversed the gate."
He points toward the chasm. "I asked you about Tienna, yes? Your companion Hatchman said you come from the Krusark Kingdom, and King Thresh III sits on the throne. He said the king was still alive. But you," he says, pointing to Kahan and Borimer, "indicated the king was dead. King Krusark, yes? Your groups, wherever they came together here, did not come from the same Tiennas. Remember that I told you: 'This is very troubling. Neither or your stories matches the correct historical account of Tienna at the time of the Kuvlah Tah, which will not take place for another thousand years. And the fact that your stories do not match each other means the Telling of the Three was true.' Remember that?"
He points to the sky outside the cave. "What do you see?"
Squinting, you see a moon rising above the peaked mountains. "That," Etag says, "is Tienna. You said it was destroyed, but it isn't. Not yet. That event will not occur for another thousand years. You have traveled from there to here, but also from then to now. Events now can change the future of Tienna, as you and Hatchman have shown. But this also means that when I closed the Gates of Time, I was too late. The changes already came. They were perhaps inevitable. I see it in your appearances here. I see it in the revival of this Black Curse. I see it in the earthquakes and opening of chasms in the mountain you just traversed. These are not coincidences. I came here for a purpose. To find you. And warn you."
He begins coughing. "I need water," he says. "I need water." Cough. "Then I can say more." He looks at you, but he is becoming weaker, his eyes squinting.
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