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Old 08-09-2002, 11:49 AM   #471
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Their eyes straining eastward, Khelek and Veritas kept a hopeful vigil that night.

Daisy and Kali had come on deck, and stood near them.

The wind was warm as it blew from Beleriand and moved over the silent watchers. It carried the sharp tang of burning, irritating their nostrils with it's unpleasant scent.

The night sky in the east waxed ever brighter with a fell red light.

Daisy and Kali huddled in closer to Veritas, shivering despite the warmth of the night. She pulled her cloak about the two, her eyes never leaving their eastward search.

'What is happening?' asked Daisy, fearing the answer. 'Something bad, something bad!'cried Kali.

Khelek's hands were hard-gripped upon the railing before him. He spoke softly, each word torn from his heart.

'Then it is so! The flower that grows on the plain has passed. The Fountain is no more, the music stilled, and even now the King dies within his flaming tower.' His trembling hand pointed to the small pillar of red flaring upward in the distance.

'Gondolin the Great is fallen.'
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