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Excerpt of a letter from Stalgard:
Perhaps I should have been more suspicious. The blight was surging and yet, we'd heard no darkspawn. The passages were quiet.
It was supposed to be a routine patrol, but only myself and one other made it back to the rendezvous point. He stayed in safety while I went in search of the missing. I never saw the shade, only heard it as it wept in the darkness. I drew close, and the sound became something more. I could feel it, Lace Harding.... Rage, sorrow, and a vast loneliness.
It reached out for me, and l, feeling the pain like it was my own, reached back.