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When the starfallen jumped from the wall Calen knew it was time for him to leave and so he called upon his magic yet again. The moisture in the earthen wall was removed and the wall exploded in a harmless cloud of mundane dust. Calen lifted himself off the ground and began flight in the same direction Kera had gone.

I hope to meet again, goat-warrior. The same doesn't apply to you Mr.Starfallen.

As he fled Calen'loki almost turned around to try and help Gale, but continued on, regretting his lack of knowledge on starfallen.

The evening star watched Calen depart with a look of mixed awe and anger on his face. He felt helpless, unable to do anything to stop the dragon's leaving. Helplessness was an unusual sensation for him, and he didn't like it. At all. Fuming, he turned into the woods to track down the last stragglers of the ill-fated battle.

Several hours later, Gale woke up. He was sitting on a rock, absently whittling a bone into a flute. His hands unconciously continued the motion before he fully mastered himseld, and realized what he was doing. Feeling the star-fallen receeding away into his mind, finally worn down by Gale's will, he pushed both bone and knife away from him violently. He looked at his hands: covered in blood. He craned his neck to look down off the rock and saw a corpse from which the leg had been remoed. A little way away lay a shin and foot, and the mangled remains of a thigh. The humerus was shattered in half at the base of the rock, nearly carved into a flute. Nobody was alive, there weren't even the moans of the wounded. Gale's head spun. It had been a long time since it had gotten as bad as this. He lay back on the rock, staring up at the treetops for a while, trying to get himself under control before he left. After a while, he slid off the rock, and found a pool of water. The forest around him was completley silent; all the animals had fled the scene. He washed the blood off his hands and face as well as he could. Then, using a fallen branch to take some weight off his still-hurt ankle, he began again to walk towards Tok.