"But you are the Sorceress. Why can you not destroy it?"
Ahdna studied the the man seated across the table. He was young, and earnest indeed, but his face was serious and already lined with the signature of responsibility. In his time of need he saw only an avatar of magic, a vague figure of power unknown to most. How better to combat a power beyond man's reckoning than with another such power?
"I did not say I cannot destroy it, Nelan. I came to this place to sweep the enemy away and repay my debt." She sat in silence for some time before continuing. "Yet it is not so simple a matter. Were it a lesser foe, I would have crushed its core and left this place. In the Kynthose Tomb waits a more terrible threat."