The town leaders of Vlastarus have one final request for me before I move on. A former friend of Nelerien’s now walks amongst the undead at a nearby Aylied ruins. Captain Juras, of whose demise the ruins at Juras’ Fall have seemingly been renamed, is said to pace the outer ruins, restlessly looking for passers-by with which to re-enact his final battle; perhaps hoping that in victory he might repeal his fate.

Alas that I am not the first, and shan’t be the last whom Nelerien sends to these ruins to lay his friend’s bones to rest. For Juras’ peace is never long. Forever haunted by his unfinished quest, too soon his bones will rise again.

I wonder if interned within those bones there is still a conscience, and whether his conscience knows what he now is, or indeed remembers what he once was? Does, as is does for the living, his conscience change his memories from villain to hero, ignominy to glory? Does his conscience still give life to those that have also passed? Or did his conscience cease to dance with the beating of his heart?

S.K