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the dog had stilled; in that darkness all shardik heard now was the trickle of distant rankwater, and the occasional groan of the earth shuddering above them. his great frame slowed to a stop, and the raking of his claws slowed with him -- until all that could be heard in that unfathomable blackness was the slow creep of decay, and the chittering of strange denizens who lived and died in this realm of rot.

it would be a long time before either stirred again; shardik needed his rest same as mou, and with a sigh heaved himself to the floor and felt a tiredness overcome him.