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5、t could not penetrate that foliage, nor could the breeze. That part of the island was called First Home, and nobody went there besides shadow hunters and fools.Voljin was no shadow hunter.He felt the water running in rivulets between his toes. It was a fierce rain, and each drop that hit his back pu
6、shed him toward First Home. Sometimes the shadow hunters returned, but the fools never did. Behind Voljin, another troll sheltered under a great palm leaf.Zalazane was no shadow hunter either.“We not ready,” Zalazane said, chewing noisily on hunks of kommu meat. “De judgment be for older trolls who
7、already done mighty things. We be young nobodies.”“I just young; you the nobody.” Voljin chuckled and stood up. “We got to. My papa, he stared into a fire for many hours last night, and now he actin like his doom be upon him. I think he saw a vision. Change comin, and we got to be ready.”“You think
8、the loa goin to make you a shadow hunter?”“They gonna judge me, for sure. Test me. I dont know what dat mean, though.”“They say the loa gonna take our minds,” Zalazane said grimly. “They gonna warp us and twist us around and make us see visions.”“Many tests, I hear. If they find me worthy, I be a sh
9、adow hunter,” Voljin answered. “If they find me unworthy nothing can save us.”“Oh, they gonna be impressed with me.” Zalazane smiled knowingly.“But they gonna laugh at you.” He stepped into the mud and ambled over to stand beside his friend. They looked at each other for a moment and broke into wide
10、 grins, tusks bared. Throughout their entire childhood in the Darkspear village, this had always been a sure sign that Voljin and Zalazane were about to do something particularly stupid.With a mighty cry, they ran headlong into First Home. They crashed through grasping vines and roots. The place tee
11、med with death both sudden and slow, but they were young, and they were sure they couldnt really die.But there were loa here. The ancient spirits of those who had transcended death could grant wondrous boons or inflict terrible punishments. Loa could give a troll second sightor drive him mad so that
12、 he would pull out his own eyes. Their judgment was vicious, swift, and unpredictable.Voljin and Zalazane ran for a time, and both began to wonder if the legends of First Home had been exaggerated. There did not seem to be any great threat. Two huge fronds blocked the path ahead. With a twitch, they
13、 slid to either side, exposing a large carnivorous plant: a nambu. Furry lips parted wide, waiting for them. Fibrous teeth writhed eagerly in the gaping maw, and Voljin could not stop in time. He threw himself to the left, grazing the side of the nambu.Twisting, flailing, he skidded into something h
14、ard and scaly. He staggered back, dazed, shaking his head. That something turned, revealing that it was a very angry, very large raptorby far the biggest Voljin had ever seen. He fell back farther, aware that the nambu was somewhere behind him. He could hear Zalazane making strange, muffled sounds,
15、but Voljin had lost track of his friend.The raptor darted its head down at Voljin, and he tumbled to his left. Immense jaws snapped shut where hed just been standing. Ribbons of saliva flew from the creatures mouth. The nambu reacted to the motion with lightning speed, locking its teeth onto the rap
16、tor, funneling poison into the beasts torn flesh. Voljin had only a few heartbeats to take advantage of the distraction: he drew his glaive and stalked around the nambu, assessing. Zalazane was on the far side of the plant, thrashing in a nest of alchu bugs that had swarmed over him, biting and stin
17、ging. He would be no help for a time.The raptor ripped the nambu from the ground, tearing roots and flinging the plant far away. The beasts tiny, enraged eyes settled on Zalazane, attracted to the trolls frantic motions.There was no time. Voljin let out a war cry, thrusting wildly with his glaive. F
18、lesh parted: Voljin had given the raptor a trail of blood down its back. Shrieking in rage, it swung around, head-butting Voljin into the shrubbery. Voljin could not see, his face crowded with dewy, sticky leaves. He felt the ground shake as the beast charged. Voljin staggered back and to the right,
19、 feeling the raptors jaws once again inches from him. He cleared his face of vegetation in time to see the raptor rear back and come for him again.He heard Zalazane on the other side of the raptor, yelling and making noise.Voljin scrambled backward, not daring to turn away from the beast. He could s
20、ee that Zalazane was attacking from the other side, but the raptor swung its tail low, taking Zalazanes feet from under him. The maneuver bought Voljin only a second, but that would have to be enough.He leapt at the raptor and threw his long arms around its neck. For a terrifying instant, his face w
21、as pressed against the beasts lower jaw, its breath ruffling his mohawk. Then he managed to wriggle around the neck and lock his knees across the raptors shoulder blades.The raptor screeched and bucked. Zalazane sprang to his feet and brought his staff down on the beasts clawed foot. Voljin heard bo
22、ne shatter. He hugged the neck even tighter and put his glaive to the creatures throat.The raptor had given up on Voljin and was advancing on Zalazane, dragging its broken foot. Zalazane backed slowly away, but Voljin could feel the beasts muscles tense and coil. Seconds remained.Voljin yanked vicio
23、usly, feeling the glaive dig into muscle and artery. Blood burst forth in a scarlet curtain as he brought the glaive out in a wide arc. The raptor staggered first one way, then another, falling to the ground, its mouth inches from Zalazanes feet. Voljin scrambled free.“What was dat?” Zalazane panted
24、. “Biggest raptor I ever seen.”“Maybe a loa possess it? Our first test?”“I don think so, mon.” Zalazane moved to the raptors gushing throat, ignoring the beasts death throes. “We know the test when it come.” He cupped his hands, catching the raptors blood, smearing it all over his face.“Whatchu doin
25、?” Voljin asked.“Dark magics, mon,” Zalazane answered, putting the finishing touches on the blood mask and licking his fingers. He gestured for Voljin to do the same.“I don wanna smell like blood in this place,” Voljin said. Zalazane plucked an insect off himself and threw it at Voljin. Without miss
26、ing a beat, Voljin caught the bug and threw it back.“We gonna smell like de blood of a big bad thing. We gonna smell like death and danger,” Zalazane said, throwing another insect. He had recently begun working with Master Gadrin, the Darkspears chief witch doctor, and sounded confident.Voljin batte
27、d the insect away and moved to catch some of the blood that was still pouring from the dead creature.“Could save us,” Zalazane commented. “But not from de loa.”“Not from de loa,” Voljin agreed, smearing the warm, sticky blood across his face. It smelled sharp. “But we only gonna survive this judgmen
28、t by facing the loa anyway. And take what comes.”“Ya, mon.”“Ow!” Voljin looked down, feeling a sudden pain. While hed had his eyes closed to smear the blood, Zalazane had attached three angry insects to his chest.“When I become a shadow hunter,” he told Zalazane, “I gonna ask the loa to kill you.”“I
29、 be havin my own powers then.” Zalazane laughed.* * * * *Night had fallen. The jungle was dark at all times, and Voljin only knew it was night from the coolness in the air and the clouds of angry buzzing insects that rolled past in great waves. Mosquitoes as big as his hand searched for prey. Voljin
30、 and Zalazane sat on the crown of a small rise. To one side, a sheer drop ended with jagged rocks. Theyd walked until their feet were sore and their breath came in choked gasps. The air was thick and still.“This a strange test,” Zalazane said in a low, cautious voice. “We just walk around and kill b
31、easts. Where the loa?”Voljin was about to reply when his spine went cold and he sensed a presence. There was a loa on the rise with them. He could not see it, and he could not smell it, but the hairs on the back of his neck told him it was there. A glance at Zalazane showed the same stark terror mir
32、rored in his friends eyes.Then there was pain. Worse than the pain of a broken bone or a stab wound. Thicker and deeper than any pain Voljin had ever felt, it flooded his mind, making thought impossible.A voice whispered to him. “De cliff,” it said soundlessly. “De rocks below. Dey bring an end to t
33、he pain. Quick. Easy.” Voljin realized it was true: he could be over the edge in a heartbeat, and the pain would be gone. His only other choice was to endure.Voljin closed his eyes and endured.After an eternity, his body fell away from him. He floated, free of sensation. A vision dripped into view b
34、efore him. He was there, older, more confident. He watched the vision from afar and inhabited it at the same time. A file of Darkspear trolls stretched out behind him. They walked through a strange land with little vegetation and orange rocks. A great city rose in the distance, full of sharp edges a
35、nd spikes. War drums sounded and smoke hung thick over the city. Strange, squat green creatures in elaborate armor were arrayed ahead. A few other creatures, great and shaggy, with hooves, watched from one side.Voljin approached the leader of the green creatures, who bore a strong, wise visage. They
36、 clasped hands as equals and smiled. Words floated into Voljins mind. Orcs. Orgrimmar. Tauren. Thrall.The green creatures made welcoming gestures, and the Darkspears put down their burdens, looking relieved but somehow beaten.“Why?” a voice asked. Voljin felt the voice in his bones; it rumbled insid
37、e him. “Why you lead our people to subjugation? Surely it be better to fight alone an proud, to die alone an proud.”“No,” Voljin said, thinking it through. “De Darkspears should always be free an proud. But we got to be alive to be free. If we dead, we lost. Better to bide our time, to endure. We be
38、 an ancient race, mon, and we endure.”He felt the truth of it as he spoke. He had always been the strategist among his friends, the one who thought around the problem. His determination to survive and win was strong.“You wise for one so young,” the voice said. “The Darkspears, they goin to suffer; t
39、hey goin to fight. For them, enduring is survival.” The vision melted before him to reveal what could only be the loa: a glowing sphere emanating ancient wisdom and sadness, something faded and tarnished. Something that had lurked in First Home since long before Voljin was born. Images and shapes sw
40、am and disappeared under its surface. Voljin barely had time to register the loa, then it was gone. The world changed around him.“I grant you sight,” the voice said, fading. Voljin found himself back on the rise. Zalazane was there.“We can see loa. We can see dem!” Zalazane exulted. The two trolls s
41、miled at each other.“Maybe we gonna live to see tomorrow,” Voljin said.“Too much hope, you,” Zalazane said. “We not done. Gadrin said there be many lessons to learn. The judgment be complicated. The loa, they have more in store for us.”* * * * *“What the loa show you?” Voljin asked. He and Zalazane
42、sat around a fire, turning a kommu on a spit. Fat dripped from the creatures bones and fell into the fire, sizzling and popping. It had been several days, so far as Voljin could tell, and the fire was a foolish luxury. But the wildlife seemed to be leaving them alone, as if they had been marked by t
43、he loa. It was not as reassuring as it should have been.“I was a big witch doctor to the Darkspears,” Zalazane said. “We were in a strange land, struggling. Our survival in doubt, mon. We needed to be strong, an we werent. Hard times for all, especially our leader. I dont know who the leader was, bu
44、t he not your papa, mon,” Zalazane said quietly. Then he smiled. “I become a witch doctor!”“I lied to you, Zal,” Voljin said. He could sense Zalazanes instant attention, even though the other troll simply waited for Voljin to go on. The two had known each other their entire lives, and neither had ev
45、er lied to the other about anything serious. “My papa did more than act strange. He told me about a vision. Told me I had to go and do the judgment. Told me there was no time.”“He told you we had to go?”“Not we. Just me. I never saw him like dis. He wouldnt hear anything but for me to go. He was in
46、such a hurry, but when I walked away I looked back at him.”“Ya?”“An he just lookin at me like he never gonna see me again. Like he sendin me to my death.”“So you thought you wanna kill me too?” Zalazane asked with a mischievous smile. Hed always been able to raise Voljins spirits. Theyd always been
47、able to help each other.“I not ready. I couldnt do it alone. But I thought together we” Voljin could hear his fathers voice in his head as he said the words.Weak,Senjin would have said.Weak and soft. No leader of de Darkspears can be those things. Life be too hard, even here on our island.“Together
48、we stronger. It okay, mon. I help you when you weak.” Zalazane grinned, taking the sting out of his words. “You always help me. We do it together.”Voljin opened his mouth to reply, but froze when he saw a glow in the jungle. Another loa, even more primeval and unknowable, shone through the leaves. I
49、t was far away, but it called to him. Voljin sprang to his feet and stalked out into the trees.“Where you goin, mon?” Zalazane shouted, but Voljin continued. He could not let the loa leave. As he neared the light, stumbling over branches, the loa blinked out, and Voljin found himself standing alone in the gloom of the jungle.F