Walking home from visiting Kal'Dwain with the new deeproad connection, he dust off his shoulder from the deep caves. He climbs the steps of Kal'Anart and hails to the guard to open the gate.
"'ail, let th' gates rise ter th' lord ov th' mountain!"
The gate guard says nothing and slowly cranks the gate. Bazian raises a brow to this but says nothing in return. He walks into an almost desolate town, usually busy with passing faces. Curious, he wanders around looking for the population of the hold.
Hearing a commotion coming from the housing area, Bazian crosses the bridge to the area. He approaches the large crowd of dwarves with a few elves in the mix. Bazian puts his hand on the shoulder of one of the dwarves and turns the lad to face him.
"W'at beh wit' all t'is commotion laddie?"
The dwarf has a face with great sorrow as he slurs out some drunken words, barely audible. "Thhh' ad jus' ... el..."
Bazian brow furrows at the response the dwarf gave him. Unsatisfied with this dwarf's response, he pushes through the crowd to see what has happened. Pushing through the inner circle of dwarves, it dawns on him the gravity of the situation. Bazian's face goes pale seeing that the fallen dwarf is his apprentice and brother, his lower lip quivers in immense sorrow and pain.
"W-w'o did t'is?!" Bazian exlaims in his sorrow.
He walks over and kneels down beside Grim, wipes the sweat from his brow.
"'e was jus' ah lad..." He whispers to himself.
"Dere was nothin' weh culd do." Whispers Skath as he puts his hand on Bazian's shoulder.
A look of rage returns to Bazian's eyes. Bazian shrugs of Skath's hand and stands up, grabbing Grim's axe, stuck into the ground from impact.
"Ah want ter know w'o did t'is!" Bazian yells as he turns, facing the crowd.
The crowd looks back with slightly surprised faces, but still ones of sorrow. They say nothing.
"Was it y-yah?!" He points Grim's axe at a taller elf with a look of crazed rage in his eyes.
The elf studders a bit. "Wh-who.. Wh-what?"
Bazian slams the axe back into the ground. Taking a deep breath he walks back over to Grim, takes off his crown and places it upon the dead dwarf's head. Bazian begins to hum an old dwarven tune.
He picks up Grim's lifeless body in his arms, and carries him up to his mountain keep, humming.
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