The Ballad of Adler Young, Canto 2.5

>Adler: You are standing with your bow in hand. Strange, you don't remember getting it out. You hear a battle raging outside. You are in the scrying tower. Why are you... Your troops! You have to help your troops win the battle. You run for the balcony. You have to get there before... You see the vial. It's balanced precariously on the rail. You lunge for it but it slips through your grasp and tumbles to the ground below. You desperately look over the railing, but instead of the vial you see a never ending field of the dead. The sounds of battle are replaced by thousands of voices calling out your name. You flee back inside in terror. Inside you see your brother with his back to you. Estemere's alive? You call out to him as you rush over. He says nothing. You place your hand on his shoulder. He turns around. Instead of Estmere's face you see a desiccated skull eyelessly staring back at you. Its jaw falls open and rasps out, "Why?"
>Adler: You bolt upright in a cold sweat and your heart beating in your throat. You are still in the wooded clearing in the same grass you laid down upon.
>Ixies and Burnside: What's wrong?