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as for merttek, a self-proclaimed crab disfigured and preserved only by symbionts of interstellar origin years after his abduction from planet 'Ivusheh Prime',
to be rescued and nurtured by those of the distant and mysterious enclaves of 'The Shroud', of whom his only known name originated...
... from those painful years would he wear this clothed encasement of electromagnetically charged braces and symbiotic worms further beneath
but with a youthful vigor did he carry himself during all of his later years in aiding some of the governors of the blessed sands of Septica,
and rumored to be the leading driver of the first wave of the spiritualist movement in the empire
never in their years on the council had these two spiritualists merttek and fosalin agreed with eachother on anything,
one of them having brought over word of 'the shroud' and the mental enlightenment and clarity it had bestowed him,...
... his claims of baryul's redemption,... and the virtue of merttek's own sense of justice which he shared in assisting several leaders of septica,...
these things conflicted with fosalin the spy, who held no need for justice in his methods,...
... and who only saw spirituality in preserving the upholding of baryul's known character, the acclaimed deceiver who united the plokaviastii in efforts,...
... efforts to ascend the heavens with aims to expand their sands into the stars
to this would the shroudwalker claim that, after baryul had briefly survived the assassination attempt upon him,
did he come to merttek with a message of telepathy sent to merttek in a shroud enclade he resided,
a revelation shown to him of seeing the shroud for minutes before his mortal injury would take him,...
fosalin would admit that those who tried to nurse baryul back to health on that day, many years ago, did claim he was saying such things,
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