Command #2: Talon Wake

The artifact is sleeping now

The Talon is at rest

Now let us go and wake it up

Let us its power test!

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(And the dead bard's dry, broken bones

Commenced to rise and shake

And from that dusty, fleshless jaw

A single command spake

"Talon wake!"

And with that, she lay exhausted

Done for another day

And back to her unburied grave

Those magic bones did lay

Once to be inanimate

A small, dim hope to keep

With deathless strength now fading fast

She whispered 'Talon sleep.'

The artifact switched itself off

Responsive to the words

Of one slain undead skeleton

Still learning to be heard