Fire and Shadow both defied.

Jacky stayed behind for just a moment to look upon the frail old man that lie before him. Jacky had been the first to meet Plisken, after all. He could still remember the first thing he had said to him, before he had aged as he did.

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"Oh, you are still here?"
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Remembering that made only made things worse for him, and Jacky decided he'd leave as the others had. But he muttered something before he did.

"He stood upon the bridge alone
and Fire and Shadow both defied;
his staff was broken on the stone,
in Khazad-dûm his wisdom died."

Jacky turned around, and shuffled sadly back down the corridor, to return to what was the so-called "norm."

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