He looks at the door.

M16.

He hadn't known where else to go. Not with the problem he had.

So.

He knocks.

And waits.

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It's been a while since he's seen her.

And tonight, for a strange reason, he's drawn to her room. He doesn't know Námo has just left or that the room's occupant is sufficiently drunk, so he knocks.

Ignorance is bliss.

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He was leaning outside his door, waiting.

Gorlim had to come out sooner or later.

And when the Man did, the card would be waiting.

Ruin could wait a very, very long time.

This.

This place.

It is Angband.

It is Angband.

Not an illusion.

When Gorlim wakes, he is in his cell. Beaten. Bloody. Tortured as he was, starving and thirsty, dizzy and exhausted, as if the Bar had only been a dream of possibilities and nothing more.

Screams ricochet over stone.

Flesh is rended.

Blood flows and drips steadily as the moan ( Read more... )

When Gorlim arrives, the room... the room is exactly like the one he just left.

The scents.

The furniture.

Gabriel's crib is at the foot of the bed, the couch still has Námo's discarded tunic on it, boots on the floor, the sapphire curtain on the window...

Although the room was decidedly vacant at the moment.

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