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 As you move forward the temperature in the corridor drops dramatically. It is cold enough that your breath condenses in the air about you, and water trickling down the walls near the door has frozen solid in long, snake-like icicles that flow along the stone and then spread across the floor. Each breath of air you take feels like ice water in your lungs, and for a moment you have to stop to tear away a piece of your travel cloak's inner lining. This you wrap about your mouth and nose as a protection from the freezing air. In the gloom the chill seems to reach out and take you in its embrace, but you can sense that it is no natural phenomenon. Something is creating the cold and doing it for a purpose.
The door is rough and very cold, but one you have decided to enter nonetheless. For a moment you hesitate, wondering if gaining entry will be worth what may lie beyond. Steeling yourself however, you place your back against the door and force it open. What you find inside is incomprehensible.
The door is not locked but a bank of snow on the other side makes it difficult to push ajar. When you do make it inside you can do little but stand quietly and wonder at what you have found. The room you have entered is small, and houses a ferocious blizzard of snow, wind and stinging ice, swirling in gale force flurries around a pillar at its centre. Shielding your eyes from the flying shards of ice you force your way forward towards the centre of the room. There, standing squarely on a pillar of smooth clean marble, glows the most fantastic battleaxe you have ever seen. Balanced precariously on its handle the axe is finely carved and inlaid over its entire length with gold and precious stones. An inscription on the marble plinth beneath reads in common Dwarvendim, "Dragonclaw".
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This book, and its associated books and other documents in the Chronicles of Arborell series are the intellectual property of the author, Wayne F Densley, and all rights are reserved by him. Windhammer is best viewed at 1024 x 768 resolution. Any questions regarding the Chronicles of Arborell can be answered by emailing the author at densleyw@shoal.net.au
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