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Erranruin
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Rickard had jogged at speed back to the stoney courtyard of his own. His excellent hearing could tell Edmund's exact location and how long he had to set up his stage. First he quickly decked out the area to look like a tremendous scuffle had taken place there. He strew rocks and dashed gravel everywhere and then set a trail of his own blood around the arena in erratic and jagged lines to simulate a fight before finally leading the blood trail up the mountain. Then he removed one of his gauntlets, using a gout of fire to melt the steel and then rending it apart as though it had been torn off his arm. He through that in the general direction of the blood trail as well. Finally, he took dragon shape, his illusioned reality of human form collapsing away to reveal his enormous, shining, majestic Draconic bulk that towered into the sky. Quickly he placed a giant boulder above the entrance to his home and spent a little more time silently scorching and scuffing the area with his dragon claws before turning to himself. Taking his sword in his massive paws, he sighed unhappily and with the dread of pain before hacking at himself with the blade, causing great gashes in his arms and mouth and one stab wound to his chest. He bite his tongue in the process of this but in truth he was so used to pain nowadays that it really held no fear for him.
Deciding that he was suitably battered looking and that the scene was set, he used Morduur's hilt to clang against the Cave walls, creating a ringing sound of intense distress before quickly hiding the Sword behind the Boulder above. He arched his neck finally and released a gutwrenching, cataclysmic roar that shook the very foundations of the mountain and echoed down the passages of his home. He made some quite convincing battle noises, crashing into the walls and rocks and growling and roaring angrily, blood from his wounds covering the area around him but not mixing with his specially created blood trail due to his flailing that sent it splashing in an arch about him. As he heard the pair approaching he made a bugling sound of victory and when they finally reached a space where he was visible, his giant ears twitched in a convincingly predatorial manner and his head snapped to look at the two newcomers, mustering up his most dragonishly bloodthirsty expression.
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