Mysterious Arrival

Lily dropped the club. She seemed a bit shocked. "Oh, my! Is he going to be allright?"

"Yes, he will be just peachy keen!" Astra grinned. "Could you please untie me now?"

"Ah, yes. Right." Lilly nodded, snapping Astra's ropes off her hands with one yank.

"Faster, you dogs!" High Heresy Examiner Zalmo barked, striking his litter bearers with a cat o' nine tails. "Go faster! You lazy, useless swine!"

The litter bearers screamed in terror and agony and quickened their pace, only to stop abruptly, almost throwing Zalmo from the litter.

"What are you doing?!" Zalmo shrieked. "I didn't tell you to take a break! Why, I'll beat you disquisting peasants to death!"

"Heresy Examiner!" groaned the lead litter bearer. "In the cave passage up ahead... there is something..."

"Eh?" Zalmo said, squinting his eyes.

And then he saw it - a blazing, roaring flame that seemed to be roiling down the corridor closer and closer to them. As it roared forward it seemed to morph and shift shape, suddenly turning into a human male.

"What is this?!" Zalmo demanded. "Who is that person! Answer me!"

The apparent human was a full eight feet tall, with huge rippling muscles and long fire-red hair. He wore only ragged leather pants and was barefoot, huge iron manacles clamped around his ankles and wrists. His friendly expression belied an inner rage but most alarmingly, he had a massive two-handed bastard sword sheathed midway through his chest, impaling him - but the wound did not bleed.

1. "What is this?!" Zalmo gasped.

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