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“How have you been all this time?” the Tower Master asked Ketal.
“I have been having a wonderful time,” Ketal replied, grinning so wide it seemed his face could not hold the smile. “I visited the fairy holy ground and even explored that phantom realm on the far side of the continent. I do not think my days could have been fuller than they were.”
“I see,” the Tower Master said.
Ketal, as he stood now, looked completely content. The question was how long that contentment would last.
The Tower Master pressed down the faint unease that rose within him and changed the subject.
“Then we should begin work,” he said.
“Understood,” Ketal answered. He lifted his gaze and whistled softly as he took in the land before them. “This is a mess.”
The terrain here had collapsed beyond recognition. From one end of his vision to the other, the ground was shattered and torn, so warped and broken that it was difficult even to place a foot without risk of injury.
It had not always been like this. Once, this had been a vast plain linking the East and South, a broad, gentle stretch of earth over which goods and travelers flowed without cease. War had turned that lifeline into a scar. The force of the conflict had crushed and twisted it until almost nothing remained of its former shape.
Their task now was to return this land to what it had been. That was the work assigned to the Champion and the Tower Master.
“Let us start with whatever lies...
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