Role

Chapter 3

She ran, a jade hourglass with golden encircling wyverns, clutched in one
arm.

A life of a gold elf was precious, a life of Glor'Draconis more so, and so
the certain death of Llewyn racked her body as she desperately told herself
to focus on her own survival. She still saw in her mind the unliving arms of
jade elves clutching and swarming over his body and dragging him back down
the tunnel to the chamber from which they had snatched the hourglass. He had
not died silently.

She ran, seeking sky. Stars! She reached the opening of the excavation for
the jade vaults being built and did not stop running until she crossed the
courtyard plaza where the unhatched dragon egg sat and yet she kept running
still.

Jade vaults gave way to the rugged rock of the jade mountains and she
stopped. A veteran treasure hunter and no stranger to the wilds and teachings
of the Sylvan Warders, she breathed a sigh of relief.

The undead and conjured spirits would not follow her here beyond their
tethered domain.

She turned. She froze. They came. Impossible. They should have been contained
to their tombs or conjuration circles or glyphs that summoned them. She
walked backwards, not believing it to be true.

The ground dropped out from underneath her. She had mistepped. Plummeting.
Falling. Tumbling down the jade mountains. One more drop and deep snow. She
gasped for breath, she could not move, she was too deep in the snow. Could
she just make out stars high above? They glittered off the jade wyvern
hourglass she somehow still managed to clutch. She hurt, the wyverns seemed
to swirl and seemed almost alive. Strange.

She heard a horrible roaring. It was like thunder, but pierced with the
cacophony of the undead. NO! The undead were running, falling, tumbling down
the cliff after her still! The stars disappeared. The snows came crashing
down above. Her world disappeared. She could fill the snow pack down harder
and harder. Undead hordes ran over and beyond her. She could not breathe! She
gasped desperately! Tried to gasp again! But no air responded, and all went
black.