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As the following pilgrims continue to receive their benediction in the background you stumble further along the sea wall, noticing the difference in the colour of stone alone the sections where the Dragon’s claws indiscriminately raked apart the battlement. Destroying everything, everything except the spot where Cain remained upon the Cross. And then the Dragon fled, retreating into the air and making straight for his monumental marble lair.
As the sun set on the on the second day, as the Crescent Palace burned and echoed with the screams of those within, Adam mustered the growing multitude of followers armed in faith and fury both. And Cain broke the Cross.
The Battle for the City had begun.
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You have stood the trial of Cain, in its harshest and most barbaric of ancient forms. None can doubt your piety, some might even fear it. You thank the Almighty that it is over, but still you wonder at the secrets left behind in the wake of Cain’s suffering and judgment.
>“Angel, Taxiarch of Creation, I call upon thee. Angel, Hipparchus of Heaven, grant me sight.” You have never dared call upon your heavenly guardian for answers before, you a mere mortal fallible man. But if you are meant for something greater in heaven’s designs, then you are not yet done here with the secrets of Cain’s trial. By GOD you are not yet done. [Haughty]
> “I wonder what the scholars say they spoke of? Halina, that smart and shy little bookish thing, she could probably tell me.” The secret of Cain and the Dragon’s dialogue is one of the great mysteries of the holy scripture, debated and theorised in theologian circles rather than considered a sort of forbidden knowledge. Mayhap God has sent you no vision of the truth, but you could still seek answers in the Aetheneum later. Or perhaps even from the mouth of the Dragon himself. [Hearty]
>“Such wonder still left in their story. Praise the Almighty’s design.” If the Angel wished you to know the secrets of the words spoken between the Dragon and Cain, they would have revealed them to you. It is enough to know that you are Heaven’s righteous instrument, you need nothing else. You must instead now pray and focus your mind on the final leg of the Long Walk, to the gates of the Crescent Palace itself. You will need your strength. [Idealist]
