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* GHOST: Sealed door, Hive Runes... know what we need? A Tomb Husk.
* ERIS:The Taken exude blight wherever they go. Just one of the agonies of their existence. Malok has begun to control that blight, empowering it at his command.
* GHOST: (awkwardly) ...so... now we know.
* ERIS: Oryx may be gone, but the sympathetic vibrations of his shrine still resonate across the cosmos. There is power here... great power.
* GHOST: (sarcastically) I was wondering why we were here.
* ERIS: Toland hinted at secret pathways between our realm and the Ascendant. Malok crawled through the wall of our world to reach these caverns.
* GHOST: I think she's just being deliberately creepy now.
* ERIS: The Taken power twists, shapes... the average Thrall does not live long enough to see its frame re-formed. Malok has lived with his power for many, many years, His hideous skin is a sign of his age, his cruelty.
* ERIS: Beware the blight, Guardian. Malok's power is absolute here.
* GHOST: The blight is the black goo, right? What is that stuff, anyway?
* ERIS: Darkness, given form by Malok's cruel will.
* ERIS: The beast is close! I can sense the blight that drips and seethes within.
* GHOST: (whispers to Guardian) How can she see this stuff, with that whole... 'blindfold' thing?
* ERIS: I see far better now than I ever did with my own eyes.
* ERIS: Beware, Guardian! The blight will drain your strength, your speed! Do not let Malok dominate this shrine!
* ERIS: Again and again, we have held back the Darkness, though the Gods and princes of the Hive hunger for our Light. This is our charge, Guardian. This...is our fight.
* GHOST: We've taken back the shrine from the Taken! (childishly) ...that they took through... taking.
* ERIS: Without Malok to channel Taken energy here, the blight will abate. And Oryx's shrine will quiet. That is my dream, Guardian. That one day the Moon will lie dead and still like the tomb it is.
* ERIS: Malok's power over the blight was impressive... you are a credit to the Tower, Guardian.
* GHOST:(astonished) Did she.... did she just compliment us?
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