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go, or all our work will <strong>be</strong> for naught! Come on!" He raced for the <strong>do</strong>or, his<br />

companions in <strong>to</strong>w.<br />

"Good luck..."<br />

Chapter 106<br />

Initially I thought it was thunder that <strong>to</strong>re through at the wall <strong>be</strong>tween Inner<br />

and Outer Curst, as if the chaos weren't enough without a Carceri s<strong>to</strong>rm<br />

ravaging the city. When we arrived at the epicenter, however, the crushed<br />

masonry and trampled bodies weren't the result <strong>of</strong> a tempest.<br />

It was a battle <strong>be</strong>tween two fiends.<br />

Agril-Shanak, who I had released from the grain silo... And Tek'elach, whom<br />

we had seen so secretively huddled in the guts <strong>of</strong> Curst...<br />

"Bar that, chief!" Morte cried out through the din, "Just let them kill each<br />

other."<br />

We gave them a wide <strong>be</strong>rth.<br />

"Morte, I need you <strong>to</strong> tell me about those blob creatures we saw <strong>be</strong>neath<br />

the city."<br />

"Blob... oh the lemures? Yeah <strong>not</strong>hin' special, chief. Just baatezu foot<br />

soldiers. Don't think we'll have <strong>to</strong> worry about 'em unless they swarm us."<br />

"Morte is correct," Grace added, checking over Dak'kon's wounds, "They are<br />

among the lowest <strong>of</strong> the baatezu order. Mindless, o<strong>be</strong>dient... and the<br />

smallest scrap <strong>of</strong> their flesh can regrow the whole. I had once observed a<br />

cornugon general gather a hundred thousand lemures, ordering them <strong>to</strong><br />

swarm across a battlefield."<br />

She shook her head, "They flowed like water, clawing blindly at the tanar'ri<br />

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