Until the morning

THE BELL BELOW / III / THE CHOIR UNDER THE LAKE

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| GRAVE KNIGHT                RANK 3        |
| BLOOD [##.......] 2/9    MIGHT 4          |
| FLAME [**.. ]     2/4    BURN  3          |
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You finish the song. The cradles settle. Seven small shapes rise through the ceiling of black water, toward a sky they have never seen.

The last note stays in your throat: the third key. It will take three blood from the Bellkeeper before the first exchange.

Somewhere above the lake, the east becomes a fraction less dark.

Choose your way

Carry the third key to the last fire

What you carry

I. Black-glass tooth / taken from the river; +1 flame capacity.

II. Iron spur / Edrin's strength; +1 might.

III. Last lullaby / seven sleepers freed; the Bellkeeper begins with 3 less blood.

Mercies kept: 1 of 3. Weapon: kiln-tempered notched sword.

 + I    --- + II   --- @ III  --- . IV   
 road       abbey      choir      bell
 + travelled    @ here    . beyond

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