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 You can see no reason to tarry here any longer. Quickly you mount Pallenten and turn her towards the western gates. They stand only a short distance from your position and with the strange moan rising upon the winds at your back you urge her forward.
In the encroaching darkness you guide Pallenten along the western reach of the main thoroughfare and confirm quickly that Kal Murda can provide no sanctuary from the coming storm. The relentless destruction of the Horde has left the town a desolation of crumbled walls and fallen stonework, and there can be no safe cover from the storm within its ruined confines.
Nudging Pallenten forward you quicken her to a canter. As thunder rolls along the plains you can feel the strength of the storm heralded in the bluster of the winds as they throw debris along the road ahead. Within the growing noise of the storm you thread your horse around piles of fallen stone towards the smashed gates that will take you out of the ruination of Kal Murda. It is with the open plains in sight that the village comes to life.
Within the bluster there are no shapes or ghostly moving forms, just the wind and the remembered cries of a thousand butchered souls that echo silently through the desolate streets. Embraced by the power of the strengthening winds ill-defined and furtive shadows move at the corner of your eye, never seen in the open but there nonetheless. No matter the cause it is easy to imagine the restless souls of the dead drawing life from the storm and it sends a cold chill down your spine. With the tempest at your back you hurry Pallenten along all the faster, making a hurried exit through the western gate. As you pass out onto the plain you are glad to be out of the village, and equally glad that you made your journey through Kal Murda without incident.
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