Crescent Daybreak

Crescent Daybreak is the forty-fourth chapter of Tales of Sheol'gotha:  Shadow of the Abaddon.

Synopsis
Palus wakes in the morning to find Ysir watching over him, commenting on his near-death and offering him something she made for him. With the arrows removed from his back, she fashioned an Aranicasian symbol for him and admits that she heard about the events in the city. She helps him up, warning him of something occurring, and as Palus gets up he sees the third legion making camp outside Reitan's gates. Maire soon joins them, and Palus takes the opportunity to approach Gadden with the intent of addressing the scribe's actions in Reitan which led to the council knowing about the seventh legion and its intents.

Gadden, busy counting soldiers, comes down and tries to reason with Palus before stunning the shifter with a casual exertion of magic to aggravate the wounds and deter Palus' anger. He explains that Kaltrin and his brothers were already in Reitan and had explained to the lords there what had happened, and that after Palus admitted that Valon was in the Ebonmire that they had left to go after him. Gadden asserts that he is content to stay with the seventh so long as he does not receive orders to leave, and that there were no such orders in Reitan. He suggets Palus send Maire and her riders to catch up with the De-jin children, and Palus leaves with a warning that Gadden is being watched.

Returning to Maire and Ysir, he tasks Maire with taking her riders to go find Valon, and Ysir with collecting any suitable, high-ranking warrior from within the army to help provide a chain of command, as most commanders are missing at the moment. As she leaves Gadden moved in and notes that the trinket Ysir made for Palus is not unlike the trophies Abaddon collects. He suspects Palus' intents of asking him to mediate with the third legion and makes preparations to go over and try to turn them from the field, and as he leaves Imma approaches to ask what they were talking about. Palus tells her that Maire is going to find Valon, but when Imma tries to leave he demands she stay.

She is reluctant and does not want to be left behind, and in their moment together asks whether he was being serious about their suggested coup. He says that he is, but suggests that she's concerned because it would mean committing to open rebellion, which she is nervous around. She asks for certainty, but he cannot give it.

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