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disc of plain gold was impressed

Korialstrasz. He will know how to

He awoke in darkness.

quite painfully into his forehead.

destroy it. They made me use its

Something stirred in it. There

His hair was patched and his

power… made me turn an entire

was a unbearably foul smell in

scalp singed, his robes filthy.

dragonflight on… on my own…”

the air. Forresten gagged and

Rings of iron dug painfully
into his neck and wrists.

The Prince wept into

scrambled for a tinder in his
belt-pouch, and found it missing.

his filthy rags.

Someone spoke to him.

“Prince Kael’thas.”

“Now. Please.”

The choice of song-

Forresten plunged the dagger

“That was a bold trick you
played on my consort, little man.”

enchantment had been chosen

into the Prince’s heart. Kael’thas

for dual purposes; to rouse

stared into his killer’s eyes,

the prince into sanity, and to

cracked lips parting in an attempt

He was in the hands of the

put the Queen into a deep,

to deliver some final words.

enemy. The dagger. If he still

Dread overcame Forresten.

but impermanent, slumber.

“Thank… you.”

had it, he could fight is way

Khadgar’s trick had worked.

Forresten had to move quickly.

out, or take his own life… but

“You have come to deliver
me, as Lord Tirion promised.”
Forresten nodded.
The Prince weakly gestured
towards his forehead.

He would need to begin the ugly
work of removing the Dragon

A flame leapt up in the

Soul from the Prince’s skull.

darkness, blinding the bard.

There was a searing pain at the
crown of his head, then nothing.

He could just make out
three black silhouettes.
“Give him to me, brother-

“You must remove this,
and take it to the one called

no, of course, it was gone.

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consort. I want his eyes plucked

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