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[Bailos]

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Just a crystal ball...

That's all there was for decoration, if you could call it that. The room was Spartan to say the least. One window, one stone table and a tapestry hanging from the wall.

Opening the heavy stone door allowed a shaft of light to pass over a mountain, through a sizable hole in the wall, through the doorway and onto the floor of the chamber illuminating a pentagram enlayed into the floorwork on the small enclosure. Stepping into the path of the light and through the doorway, the heavy door was closed again sending the room back into its...lockdown. With a careful hand, the tapestry on the wall was slide over to cover the window, completing the death of the light.

Taking a step in the direction of the table, he picked up a match, struck it and lit the three prongs of the candleabra centered on the table. As the faint, orange-yellow light grew and began to play on the walls, it cast its glow on a Skull of Greed to its left, and a dormant crystaline ball direction on the center of the table.

Tracing his boney finger over the antique a very weak grin began to unfold. This was his quiet place. The door was thick, the walls even thicker and he was tucked away on a frozen land of ice. Doesn't get much better for ones solitude.

As all the sound drifted away from him, save the soothing noise of the candle flames devouring the air, his mind drifted away. Slowly his eyelids closed and he began to reach out. Both hands caressed the base of the crystaline ball and gently raised it up, supporting it about waist level.

You can only embrace me...
This was the beginings of his silent prayer. The ball began to radiate a faint blue tint from its core and its very surface seemed to shift and bend the light around it. The haze started to take a form...

"As you wish master"

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After gazing upon the image the ball presented, he set it down, a smile accross his face. Just as quickly as it appeared, it faded. Turning, he waved his hand and the door of the chamber reluctantly flew open and the shaft of light invaded again....

Stepping out, he clasped his hands together and confidently spoke....

"It is as destiny wills it...I will have chicken tonight"