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The Dawnbringer ambushed Barnaby in the grey before dawn at the central market well, where he had been hiding inside his Bag of Holding reading The Butchered Words of Kyoss. She presented as a woman in blue, with dark veins running like rivers beneath her skin.
She compelled him to empty the bag in front of her, saw the book, and lost interest in everything else. Barnaby tried to flee toward Eldritch College under a haste-spell. She telekinesed him back across the square as if reeling in a fishing line.
She did not fight him. She reached into his memory, found his birth — sunlight on a beach, the warmth of the world’s first kindness — and plucked the sun from it. Not the memory itself; only the light. The rest closed over the gap without a seam. The piece of him is gone permanently.
He surrendered the book. She walked perhaps a dozen paces from the well and stepped out of the world entirely. Her parting words were a promise that she would see Barnaby again at the end of the world.
She has now hunted The Butchered Words of Kyoss successfully after a thousand years. The components race for the Orcus ritual has begun in earnest.
