The Mountain Dwellers

The Mountain Dwellers is the twenty-ninth chapter of Tales of Sheol'gotha:  Shadow of the Abaddon.

Synopsis
In the mountains overlooking volcanic spires and a stone giant in the evening light, Kareshh, Boor and Ayalesh are among the legion in a mountainside, hiding in crevices in the rock. Boor attempts to bait Kareshh into discussing his witchguard history more, and Kareshh manages to distract the conversation onto Ayalesh and the demoness he found in Flagstone - Dekhana. Boor admits to familiarity with the demoness, suggesting that she is both sexually voracious and cannibalistic.

After getting Boor in trouble and lamenting how long it is taking them to get through the mountains - more than ten days, instead of less than seven, by Boor's reckoning - they discuss whether such a matter is because of the princes and their arguments. Ayalesh hopes that they'll not become mountain dwellers, and as the cold begins to draw in suggests a story to keep them warm. Boor proposes a story about demonesses in Dyss, prompting Kareshh to put forward his own story to save himself the suffering. Readily accepting, he details what happened to expel him from the witchguards.

As an already-accomplished witchguard, he was sent to find a demoness with a demon named Eitrig. Eitrig perished, which Kareshh laments, and Kareshh was sent to Nazrin by the Lord Sentinel. He doesn't wish to speak further, but admits that he was somewhat infatuated by the demoness before telling Ayalesh to go to sleep.

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