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Unfortunate. Another thorn in his side, that was. He assumed, maybe theorized, that this Hag-rheto was the masked merchant. It made little sense for it to be anyone else, but he knew even less about the merchant than he knew about the Dreamer. He had hoped to show the Dreamer his own dream, or to modify a memory of theirs that Hag-rheto had once shown them. Perhaps they might, still, if Hag-rheto could be convinced. They could travel out of the cave, after all, which meant they might be able to show Heathen how, and if Heathen could show Hag-rheto a new world... the Dreamer would recreate it here. It was too unpredictable of an idea, for now, so Heathen filed away the entire plan. Later, perhaps.
But now? Now, he had to find out more about those chains. Surely there was something in it for him, if not from the Dreamer but from the blacksmith, while he was there? Regardless, there was nothing keeping him here now, and so he embarked down the tunnel with one last look towards Wilder.
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