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Chapter 9: The Armourer's Challenge This time it was different. She was standing on a stone platform in a subterranean cavern. All around her were tall, arching columns. Some were cracked and other still lay broken, bits of rubble strewing the carved stone floor. She was alone on the platform though the body of a man lay close by, lips pulled back in a fixed, fierce grimace, red eyes glaring coldly at the cavern ceiling. There were grooves gouged in the floor and Emily bent to examine them. They were surprisingly deep and worn perfectly smooth. She followed one of the grooves to a silver brazier on a pedestal. It had handles on its north a