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Istar, your army in Balifor is a gauntlet, clenched on a quicksilver heirloom.

Your priests in Qualinost are dazzlements of glass fractured on red velvet.

Your light hand in Hylo steals breath from the cradle:

Ice on the glove.

In Silvanost, the white thighs of the women wade through the muddied waters of Thon-Thalas.

Your sword arm in Solamnia entangles in filaments, in the spider's alley.

Your children in Thoradin dream away ancestries of green earth and sun.

The shards of remembered Ergoth collect to a broken vessel from dispersion they call the planet's twelve corners.

One name on the lips of Thorbardin the rows of teeth unmarked gravestones.

Your fingers in Sancrist fumble the intricate hilt of a borrowed sword.

But, Istar, the last song is yours, the song at the center of songs:

A bleached bone on the altar.

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