Topic: T'larryo Sirnnh (mature: violence)

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-04-29 20:57 EST
Glorious, the colors which threw themselves from colossal beam. It arose as it always did to signify the height of the day, shimmering faint touches of lavender and amethyst across buildings that yearned for a stone sky.

Enwrapping the vision of noon in the middle of the earth came the sound of market place murmurs. Slave vendors hawking the very best surface males, 'broken twice! Guaranteed to never fight back! Very susceptible to magic for your experiments!,' while males milled near the vanity booths, pondering which fragrance would please their mistress more. The cadence of heavy guardsmen?s boots mixed with all of it, a steady heart-beat over the delicate silk slippers of male house slaves.

"Kyorl jalbol dos saph?" Her reverie broken by the oil-slick hiss of a vendor nearest her. She turned to glance disinterested over one shoulder. The other female was missing an eye, its socket empty, with a ragged silver scar running from brow to nose. When she grinned at her, she revealed a few missing white teeth.

"No, I do not. And if you have any sense at all, you would do well not to approach me with your wares, old hag," scornful. Suliss' urn straightened from her lean to look down upon the older woman.

"Young Mistress, I meant no respect," crackled in a voice made brittle paper from hundreds of years. "--but these slaves are special! Come, come --"

"Shut up,? snapped from wide mouth. Her soft soled leather boots propelled the drowess away from her resting place and sent the female prowling restlessly through the crowd. She should have remained in her rooms to study. Her younger sister Ssin', however, was rather well versed in coercing her older sister to come with her. Why, however, Suliss' allowed her to do so, was still unknown.

Pushing through a gaggle of smaller males gathered near a jewelers stall, pointed ears strained to pick out the melodic, higher pitched tones of her sibling. It was not difficult to find where Ssin? meandered too then, all she had to do was focus on the warbling words of delight.

?Oooh. So very lovely. How old did you say he was?? This, Suliss? clearly heard when finally cornering her younger sibling at a vendor?s stall cluttered with large cages.

?No more than a century at least. Taken on a raid Mistress, he was very young so we were able to break him with far more ease than the others.?

Suliss? sister was bent over a smaller cage, poking the tip of leather handled whip in between bars at a pale skinned male huddled sullenly within. His features covered by a crudely sewn mask that zippered over his mouth.

?What is that for?? Of handedly, Suliss? indicated the strange mask, placing one hand on her sisters shoulder and urging her away from her curious poking.

The slave mistress bowed quickly at the appearance of the elder female, before unfurling long black fingers toward the cage.

?While he obeys commands with the utmost precision, he still tends to easily excite in a crowd and often bites. Since we filed his teeth as a child, this becomes problematic in some situations.?

Lazily, Suliss turned brown eyes upon the male, who dully looked off into the distance. It was upon second glance that she noticed the graceful curl of pale pointed ear. How remarkable.

?I want him.? Ssin? exclaimed, rolling her eyes to look up at Suliss? to give her the trademarked child-like gaze which most often made others bend to her will so very easily. And Ssin? knew this.

?You have one already. If you get this one, they may not like each other and fight.? But the tone in which Suliss spoke it was dubious at best. Ssin? heard this and knew she had won already.

?No I don?t! He?s not pale like this one,? the little girl pointed. Suliss? took a deep breath before glancing aside at the delighted slave mistress.

?You will deliver that. I trust you know where to take it?? The slave mistress nodded enthusiastically, rubbing her hands together. Suliss made a soft sound at the back of her throat, wheeling the delighted younger girl around by the shoulders to point her toward home.

?You will be late for your studies.? She told her sister, who made inappropriate noises from one of her station, to which Suliss promptly reminded her who she was, and sent the child off at a run. Mingling in the crowd, four diminutive seeming males turned their eyes to the older female without question. With a slight nod, Suliss indicated that they should follow to make sure Ssin? did in fact, make it to her destination.

Suliss watched until the little girl was far out of sight, house guards tailing silently behind.

She had little to no idea how much of an utter mistake purchasing that pet, would be.

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-04-30 04:29 EST
Time passed, though for the drow (as it was for almost all Elven kind) it ticked slowly. What was a decade for humanity became a short blink behind the eyelid of black skinned beings entombed so deep within the earth her self.

Two decades passed before the eyes of Suliss?urn and her sister Ssin?urn. Enough so that the slightest edge of childishness had begun to lose its grip on the younger, and that the elder had time to dig her claws into the line of succession to Matron more firmly.

It consumed Suliss? waking moments more so than ever. No food went clear of poison by her eldest sister Skikudis, no day passed where she could not taste it anyhow?her tongue so doused in antidotes that all taste for anything baring that which burned, remained.

Like any spider, she wove webs so very deep, and so too did the eldest, Skikudis. This dance was not the sort openly seen, no. For the drow did not just crave the chaos they created, but dwelled in it, grew fat in it: alike the giant bloated Spider queen herself, spinning, spinning endless disaster.

The two sisters did not confine their competition to simply each other. Men and slaves, house guard and rival, trivial females who attempted to outwit them. An endless cycle which brought both females closer to the power they craved. And, unbeknownst to either of them, great amusement to their Mother who watched them both wreaking havoc with the pride and suspicion only a mother could have.

During all of this, Ssin? was left to her own devices.

She became enamored of her most favored light-skinned pet. She made collars and masks of the finest mithril, let him sleep at the foot of her bed chained to her wrist and allowed him to kill and feast upon her other pets, to which she had no use for anymore. She even allowed him to remain in the room to watch when she took her amusements from men in the times when she grew bored. It went further, however. She taught it to speak, she allowed it to touch. She gave it free reign where no pet should have any.

She grew to adore it, in her own way. And it did not take long for whispers and words, mouths to spread such a thing along the lines of knowing ears. Such a thing?To allow any creature not drow such free reign, to show it such affection...It bordered too close to what was an anathema in the eyes of all drow. And no daughter of a House would be allowed to bring shame such as this.

And as the closest to Ssin?, it was Suliss? who felt it her duty to teach her sister a valuable lesson which seemed, Ssin? had not yet learned. And so, it was at the dinner table when Ssin? remarked upon the absence of the eldest sister, in which Suliss, with sweet words, informed her sister why the eldest was absent and what exactly Ssin? would learn today.

Ssin? dropped her glass to shatter in resounding crash upon the floor.
??You?what? With?what??

Languidly, Suliss? placed her elbows upon the table, creating a bridge with fingers to delicately lower her chin upon it, keeping her sister fixed within brown eyes through lash.

?His hands. With the butter knife. I want his hands,? Suliss? urn seemed to pause here, as if on whim. ?And perhaps his feet, I have not yet decided. ? In a sudden motion, one arm clad in diaphanous silk swept across the table before them both to send the rest of the knives, spoons, glasses and plates , some with food, some with nothing on them?crashing to the floor. When a spot was cleared, white crescent of fingernail tapped upon the empty space.

?Here. Either you do it, or I have our Mother do it, Ssin?, after I tell her what all that you have allowed him to do.?

The seconds seemed to span for centuries for Ssin. Suliss only watched with cool neutrality as her sisters shaking hands picked up a silver, ornate butter knife.

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At first, he screamed, each time he did Ssin?s sobbing grew. He screamed until he could not anymore and it turned into whimpering sobs of indescribable pain. Eventually, even he did not have the strength left to do that ? and the noises turned to incoherent mewling which wheezed from a throat raw.

After a time, there was nothing, Ssin?s tears had dried, smearing pink trails from cheek to sticky hair as his body turned from pale peach to the tale telling gray. Midnight came and went; breakfast swirled by until noon finally came.

Suliss?urn had remained seated, staring with rarely a blink while her sister bent over the table at her task. With a solid, meaty thunk, the last of the skin around its foot dropped to the floor. Blood no longer flowed, cooling in ragged patterns on the table and floor.

?Remember this day well, sister,? arising from her chair to turn elegantly behind it and push it in as if she was just departing on her way after evening meal.

?Love is nothing but a weakness to exploit.. It holds power over you. It is worthless, and your enemies, just as I have will use it to force your hand. Do not let your emotions blind you, ever again.?

With that, Suliss? urn turned upon her heel, leaving Ssin? standing in puddles of what once was the life of a treasured pet.

What Suliss? could not see, were the dried eyes of Ssin?. Lifted and boring bloody holes of unholy hatred into her retreating back.

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-05-01 02:49 EST
Her robes had been chosen with the same precise, careful thought in which Suliss did everything. They were rich fabric, bereft of any decoration to give the eye the misapprehension of humble. She chose no jewelry to adorn smooth, flawless night skin, no circlet of mithril and no markings befitting her station as a Second Daughter of a powerful house.

It was all a lie, of course. Pride was everything, the game meant all, and the appearances of masks were always in place. However, the impression and delivery of her speech before her Matron was as unblemished as her very skin. With smooth tones, she accused her Eldest sister of cavorting with traitors, while their mother, slumped and spun glass aged upon long spider legged chair crowed over each eyewitness Suliss?urn called to stand before her and testify.

She ignored the pallor of her sister?s face, which at once so many years ago, they had held hands and ran through the halls of the House playing Light Elf and Dark elf. As coolly as if they had never once touched brows to share secrets of males and the things sisters should in youth ? she damned Skikudis in a never ending pile of papers, attestation, truth spells ? each leading to another pile of evidence that ruined the Eldest daughters credibility so completely, so solidly, that nothing Skikudis could ever possibly say, or counter argue could touch the things which Suliss presented.

For every word her sister had to negate the accusations, Suliss had seven to prove her incorrect. For every cry of ?Lies!? she had undeniable truth. Unwavering, spine straight, she was radiant in her fervor for Lloth and the chaos that she brought down upon her very siblings head.

Murmurs from the males Matron kept chained at the foot of her seat grew, the house guards gathered within the opulent chamber attempted not to stare at Skikudis ? but the fires of hate which Suliss fanned with every breath grew clearly identifiable in their eyes.

She gloried in it. Reveled in the pieces of her sisters mask that began to fall apart. And not a single speck of emotion crossed the black diamond surface of Suliss?urns features. It never was her way, to show anything. Colder than the deepest pits of water in the darkest parts of the earth.

As the silence finally filled the chamber, all eyes hovered toward the Matron. Huddled in robes too heavy, too fine and gaudily rune marked against magic in addition to the occasional weapon, she looked more a stick bird that a drow. She seemed ready to break at any moment. The whites of her eyes no longer so, but yellow from age. Two great lines marred either side of her face, from being pulled perpetually into a scowl. Rolling glassy gaze toward her middle daughter, Matron mother?s brittle bone voice made its first creak in a pronouncement.

The room seemed to lean toward the crone to hear her words.

Until a similarly plain robed figure stepped out from behind the Matron?s chair interrupting the Matron?s forthcoming words.

?Matron, before you choose their fates ?I pray you, let me speak,? the robed figure murmured in an utterly chaste and demure voice.

Suliss?urns chin snapped upward, toward the tone of voice. Two black hands reached upward to lower to voluminous hood while the female stepped out into the circle of light far more clearly, revealing the youthful perfection of Ssin?s countenance.

Ssin?s eyes remained downcast, in some semblance of what may have been respect. But her thin, heart shaped mouth was pulled into a serene knowing smile.

?This is no business of yours, sister. Go and play with your toys, ? Suliss?urn scathingly delivered. But the appearance of Ssin? had, with a single stroke, thrown decades of patient spinning into a jumbled heap within the middle sister?s mind.

?Oh, but I must insist, sister-? the single endearment delivered in a tone which said it was anything but. ?I have new evidence to present to our most Reverend Matron Mother. Evidence that you have overlooked, and must be brought to light in order for Her to make the decision most pleasing to our Goddess and House.?

Stepping around to the side, Ssin? nodded at one of the guards closest to the eastern passageway. He removed himself with a quick bash of fist to cheap breastplate, moving rapidly through the archway then plunging into the darkness of the hallway.

?What is the meaning of this? I will not have you, the Youngest, interrupt me when I am doing Ll??

?Be silent. You tire me with your self righteous mouthing,? creaked Suliss? mother from upon her overly large, garish spider legged chair.

Suliss?urn pressed her lips together and said no more. Even she did not dare to push the Matron, daughter or not.

The guard who had left returned in speed and efficiency males were known for when they were given a command by a female. He dragged in with him, a male.

He had been tortured recently; some of his wounds had not yet stopped their bleeding. His mouth had seemed to have been slit wider, and then sewn in the corners shut ? that did appear to be an older wound. There were parts and pieces of him that also seemed to have been removed and sewn back together. Regenerated by the Priestess?, simply to be removed again. Over and over and over again, a most effective way to break any prisoner?s mind.

Gathering her robes in her hand, Ssin? benevolently made her way from the lower dais to approach the prisoner who took one look at the roomful of female drow then began to sob quietly. He seemed to know that there was no longer any need for pride. It no longer mattered.

The guard let him collapse to the floor, as if he had touched something utterly disgusting, banged his fist once more upon his breastplate and marched yet again to the station he had abandoned.

Crooning in her sweetest voice, Ssin? kneeled beside the male and pressed what must have been a cool, smooth hand against a brow burning with exhaustion in addition to pain.

?Speak, Draa Keesehen,? she crooned in a lullaby so utterly naive, ?speak, and you will no longer be harmed. Tell us what it is you know, and I promise you the ultimate horror you will be spared from.? Ssin? spoke of the drider; and how they came to be. Ssin? spoke of the impossible. No one could stop the Priestess? should they proclaim that his fate.

But he did not know that.

Suliss? urn started forward?

?Hold, I will hear this, if not but for my amusement.? Matron raised her hand, and Suliss? could do nothing but halt in mid step.

In between fits of sniveling, Suliss?urn watched utterly powerless as every single plan became unraveled in a single act of genius from Ssin? in which she had not thought to see. So distracted by her plans to oust Skikudis, neither sister had thought of the youngest. Such a simple, deadly mistake ? for Ssin? had made herself a laughing stock of the house. Ssin had seemingly been far more interested in the affairs of wheedling away her time with studying of sorcery and males in her bed.

Such a stupid, stupid blunder which could have been so easily routed had either of them paid any attention to weak, sweet little Ssin?.

What proceeded was far more devastating than Suliss? had ever offered. Line after line of words from his mouth, Daughter after Daughter of the more powerful ruling houses came when Ssin?s melodic voice called for them to appear. Each one had more damning testimony; each one had a writ of sealed authentication signed by numerous Priestess? and Matron?s.

Not only had Ssin? brought about the perfect web, she had sealed it with more power than Suliss? had ever imagined gaining.

And the words which damned her most ?

?And?And then we s-s-aw her, Mistress.? And at last, it came down to the prisoner once more, bawling, and shaking in the middle of the floor.

?What? What did you see Draa Keesehen? Be not afraid,? Suliss? little sister crooned on, in droning sugar and innocent light. She stroked the side of his ruined face, smoothing back hair as if she were his mother and he the daughter.

?She was n-naked. D-dancing in the circle with h-her sister, bathed i-in the Silvery glow?They s-sang songs a-and ch-chanted prayers to Eilistraee?Th-They prayed for the d-d-ownfall of their own house and LLoth?? A sob cut of his next words. ? Mercy. I beg of you, mercy.?

It was perhaps, the single disgusting name of the deity uttered as a final point by a broken slave who, of course, would have no need to lie ? that wrapped all that Ssin? had planned in a neat little bow.

?How dare you. I would never betray my??

?SILENCE.? The roar of her Mother?s voice rattled Suliss? into quiet afresh. Ssin? gave a last pat to the prisoner?s matted head, drawing herself up proudly as she approached Suliss who bared her teeth at her when she dared come toward her. From the chair before her, her mother uttered a single word. Sharp, guttural, its meaning lost in time, but the small scent of reagent filled the air after Matron had spoke; the web which appeared around Suliss? body was instantaneous and solid as mithril. She was unable to move.

?And what is this, then, traitor? Hanging around your neck barely hidden from sight? ? Ssin? reached up to make a motion of pulling something from around Suliss?urns neck. Crowing happily she spun on a heel to show the Matron.

It was a fine amulet of silver. On the end dangling too and fro was the full moon with sword. Eilistraee?s mark of her chosen.

?Tricks! Tricks of your hand, I wore no jewelry here! How dare ??

?I SAID SILENCE, OR BY LLOTH I WILL HAVE YOUR LIFE THIS MOMENT.? Suliss? mother?s voice roared to the very ceiling of the chamber and echoed.

?You spiteful bitch, how did you dare come forth from my womb? How dare you betray all that you are and could have been? You refute indisputable proof? Do you tell us that the Priestess? lie to us? Do you say that the daughters of these houses lie? All of them??

Shakily, her mother raised herself from the throne to a stand, leaning upon a gnarled staff topped with crystal.

?You are the lie. You are not of my body, my house, or even this race. Abomination! From this day forward your name will be stricken, your existence never to happen. You will be offered to the priestess for their whims ?? And here, Suliss watched in the same cool, other worldly fascination as Ssin? and she exchanged quick glances. ? ?after your sister takes what she wills from you.?

In that exact moment, everything had clicked into place. Everything. Ssin had not planned this, but her very own mother had. Between the two of them ? they had designed the downfall of both Eldest and middle.

In once single motion, Ssin had ensured her place as becoming Eldest by removing both.

Approaching her sister once more, Ssin leaned. Essentially, it looked as if she gave her sister one last loving kiss upon the cheek. But Ssin?s mouth moved to touch upon Suliss? ear, whispering:

?It is time for a lesson, sister. I shall have your eyes. With a butter knife, I think.?

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?Lloth,? whispered in the endless drip of dampness. ?why have you abandoned me?? The question echoed off the walls of her prison.

But Lloth did not answer, and the darkness for Suliss was all-encompassing.

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-05-01 19:59 EST
Without the ability to see the ritualistic raising and lowering of lights below to signify day or night, Suliss?urn was unable to tell how long she had languished in rock sunken prison.

Questioned and tortured by Ssin?, Priestess' whose voices melded together into a spiraling drone that meant nothing anymore, the words the same. The pain the same, she no longer knew anything. Only that she wished for it to end. That death would have been more welcome than this not-life.

She heard the soft steps of footfalls as clearly as if they resounded within aching skull. One thing she had managed to note in the unending black that became her world was the ability to hear the scratching of vermin, whispered prayers, screams of far off prisoners far more clearly than ever. Some part of her mind had grown pleased that the theory of loosing a single ability helped the other sharpen.

The rattling of metallic doors mingled with the rusted screech of hinges opening. Suliss? did not bother to turn her face toward today?s chosen tormentors. She no longer cared.

?Give her water, and then make her drink everything in that flask.? Until she heard that statement, she recognized the voice which spoke?

Moving her head to the direction of the sound, Suliss attempted to form a name yet her tongue clove dryly to the roof of her mouth at the very mention of water.

?Yes, sister. How delightful that you remember me, the one you tried to betray,? Skikudis? words echoed sarcastic inside the small prison. She heard the rustling of fabrics, and the cool touch of a metal cup touching her bottom lip. Too over come with thirst, and with nothing but ragged pride, she drank greedily. It did not matter if the cup was filled to the brim with poison (she could only hope) for if so, at least it could end this unending cycle of torment and heal.

She tasted water at first, but the cup was soon emptied and taken away. She made a pitiful sound at the back of her throat in protestation of the removal of container, until she felt something different in texture pressed against her mouth. Suliss? once again avariciously drank all.

It was not immediate, but she began to feel the familiar warmth of an elixir she knew well, that she realized it was not water, but an elixir for healing. She struggled to speak once more.

?I do not want to hear it.? Her sister?s words a finality that clanged more than the door when it shut after numerous sessions with the Priestess. In this increasing warmth of regeneration, Suliss felt the early stages of comforted sleep crawl to create a hazed fog toward her mind, making all sounds seem as if they traveled through infinite long tunnel.

She could hear her sister move to someone else present, to murmur:

?We have little time left. Bring her to the southern waterfall, there we will regroup and make for the tunnels leading up. You know what to do.?

Suliss knew no more for a time.

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She awoke to the oddest sensation. Cooler winds that tangled sweat and sticky hair that carried with it smells of green things. It passed things of the surface, which only she half-knew from long distant raids and rites of passage from her childhood memory. She struggled to rise from her prone position against cool rock, fingertips splayed desperately to seek out where she was by feel.

?I hope your dreams were sweet.? Her sisters voice, to the right and near. Suliss? could almost feel her breath. She recoiled from the sound, and Skikudis? harsh laughter raked across rocks.

?Oh, if things were different, I would take so much more joy at seeing you like this?? Skikudis came nearer again, her voice lowering to be heard by Suliss? ears only. The words rushed.

?There are so many lessons I could teach you, that we never learned. You must listen to me now; I do not think we will see each other again. You may never understand the reasons why I do this; but Eilistraee is not unkind. There is a chance that someday you may see my point of view.? Suliss could almost image the self satisfied smirk that crossed her older sister?s face at using that particular adage. ?Until then, this is my Goddess gift to you. To show you that not all is what we knew in the dark and that there is light. Know, then, that you owe her for what you are about to receive ? and do not forget her name. In time, perhaps, you will call it with the same adoration I do...?

The resounding clap of Skikudis? palms to Suliss? brow startled the drowess into immobility. Am I to die then, now? When hope has just been dangled before me? Is this the Goddess? plan, in which Skikudis speaks with such inappropriate worship?

But a knife blade did not bury itself into ribs, magic did not crackle into her skull?Instead, her sister began to sing.

Skikudis? voice was lifted in unearthly Elven tones to the imagined sky blocked no doubt by stone. The melody was filled with so much love, such unbearable grief at the fall of her own people that it shook Suliss to her very core. The sound of it did not just reverberate in the very ears, but her very soul. She would, for the rest of her life ? never forget the sound.

Wordless, the eerie keening from her sister turned to an imploring note ? at first, Suliss thought it was a trick of her battered mind. A faint light to spark somewhere deep in her mind, to flare suddenly in blaring silver glow that spilled such indescribable love, a luminosity so very strange that it was more physically painful for Suliss to look at, than any surface light.

The removal of her Skikudis? hands brought about the unexpected silence of her sister?s singing. And with it, for a moment, the darkness came afresh. Suliss felt her hope plummet as easily as it did before. I am still blind. What gift is this?

Her sister?s voice seemed to float now, further away. It came as one would assume a ghost?s voice would, floating on the wind which continued to ruffle hair.

?Yellow. So I see. Then, the gift is yours. She has given you the eyes of the hunter, of the wolf. The color of the sun, and golden as the harvest moon ? marked, you are. Every time that you look upon your reflection you will know this and remember her name. I do this, in remembrance of what we were as elves. For what we could have been?Go.?

Skikudis? voice seemed nothing more than a whisper, while the sudden cacophony of baying and metallic crash of armor clad drow became clear.

?Go- NOW. Run and live, sister mine. This is my only lesson for you. Forgiveness.?

Blindly groping along the rocks behind her, Suliss arose on wavering legs ?without thought, she ran.

Ran toward the spark of a single, dazzling light.

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-05-02 03:29 EST
Thus, the first shattering had come to pass.

Blinded, but not for lack of eyes. It was the sun which had become an enemy. Crawling out of the earth in a tunnel followed close by pursuers who did not dare the sunlight?Suliss?urn Xukuth raked nails across loam for the first time of her life in a place that was not familiar.

Saved, (such a wounding term) by males and females at a place they called The Red Dragon Inn. Her first sight, in the dark of a cool room given to her without a single question as to her black skin, her race ? was of a man with a beard the color of spun sunlight, blue shifty eyes that would never fix upon her.

He said his name was Guthorm. And that he came from the sea.

Thus, the first mending came to pass.

Time; again. Years for some, another blink of an eye for Suliss. A strange male drow who gave her eclectic lenses that fit over the eye to protect her from sunlight. Still forced to move about in heavy fabrics that blocked the rays of the sun from delicate skin?She learned so much. She learned of the ways between people. She understood, along the outskirts of thought the meaning of trust. As tremulous and as thin as it was, this idea grew in her mind until the fateful day she encountered another female as herself.

The symbol of Eilistraee openly worn upon the other female?s breast glittered silver in the light. Suliss was reminded of her sister Skikudis, all that was said and the song that echoed at night in her dreams.

Thus the mending became complete.

With the passage of time she became enfolded in the teachings of Eilistraee. Acolyte to a Priestess who sought to shepherd the drow here upon the surface of this odd realm, she learned the Dogma of Lloth?s sweeter sister. She learned the way of the Hunt, the trill of the lute as well as the ritual of song.

She met a strange creature, who was not human like she. He had the markings of the wolf, yet spoke in tongues common. Dark eyes like the blotted out sun carried with him the scent of the sands and the dunes of dreams.

Placed aside was the whip to take up the sword in Eilistraee?s name. Long nights she spent dancing under the full moon to raise her voice to a new Goddess.

Thus, the second shattering began.

In the Underdark, names may be stricken from history, words may go unspoken. But the memory of the drow are as long as their years. Ssin? had not forgotten her sisters, she had not forgotten the lessons learned. A debt was to be paid, and she paid it handsomely to anyone who would do what she asked.

She only asked one thing.

?Bring her to me, alive.?

And they found her one evening while she was singing to the moon. The moon shattered in a thousand pieces and would never be whole again for Suliss. As long as she lived.

Thus, the second and final shattering came to pass.

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-05-02 13:39 EST
Everything was dark.

The cycle began again, for Suliss. The second time came the memories of the first and the female held together the pieces of tattered sanity with a name. A name and a face, singing until no sound came from her throat, her lips chapped, then split, just to drink the blood from cracked mouth and sing again.

Every so often, she no longer could control herself. Scratched wildly along the same stonewalls of her imprisonment until the nails bent back or broke?scattering as the shards of her mind to the floor at her feet.

They grew, she broke them all.

The singing was often broken by Ssin, who took such saccharine pride in placing the prettiest mithril collars upon her sister to parade her about market place and home. Magic had been beaten deep into the metal that connected Suliss? to her sister. So each tug delicate Ssin? gave to the spider-webbed chain sent a sensation of such excruciating pain to Suliss? that eventually, she became trained to never trail behind. She never let that chain grow taut. No matter where Ssin? placed herself, Suliss would ensure that the chain remained lax. She often stood to sleep, sat at her sisters feet as beloved pet once would.

Occasionally, Sssin? would grow bored with her singing, or mute sister. And these periods Suliss?urn Xukuth dreaded.

?You bore me, sister. You there, ? Ssin? declared whimsically, a perfectly manicured grey and white fingernail pointed randomly to nearest male. ?You may have her. When you are done, take her to the slave pits as a reward for such good behavior. Do not kill her!? She chided them, and then laughed a sweet laugh filled with silver bells and delight.

In the beginning, there was no way to shut it out. No way for her to dull the faces that sneered above her, no escape from the memory of hands or objects, weapons or anything else they could grab on hand. To say that the males in the slave pits took their pent aggression out for being born in a Matriarchal society, upon Suliss would not touch close to the vitriol, violence, and violation she was treated too.

Each time after, she sister would heal her well enough to walk, then display Suliss proudly in current stunned state. The worse she looked, the happier Ssin? became.

Interspersed between sitting or standing by Ssin? connected to wrist by chain, Ssin? handed Suliss? over to the Priestess? for experimentation and impulse.

They took sinister gratification in asking Suliss?urn where Eilistraee was now, doubled their laughter at her silence, punished her if she spoke, then asked for an answer, and punished her for giving it. The snake headed whip tore chunks in perpetual days and nights, only to be healed and regenerated to start again.

They plied drugs by glassfuls through split-wide mouth. Some days they kept her awake and lucid while they split her open to prod and poke with various instruments at insides and out. Sometimes she woke up in her cell with something missing, replaced with gruesome parts; be it bug bear or arachnid, rothe or bat like, only to have them tamper with her mind to redevelop the correct limb again. Calling Suliss?urn to question her sanity after a while, as to if the new appendage had ever been there.

They threatened to make her into a drider, and it was ignored.

Two years. Two simple, short years ? for a human it would have meant death of the mind. To Suliss it meant utter shattering. Between the collar, the drugs, the prison, the slave pits, the Priestess? and the experiments, something vital inside the drowess? mind began to irrevocably scatter to the four winds.

It was the final act, however, that broke everything she was.

____________________________


Eyelids heavy, (they felt as if they had been doused in sand), Suliss fluttered eyelids open. Before her, Ssin?s face floated seemingly neck less before the ruined drowess? sight. Smiling sweet and bright, Ssin?s face shimmered wetly with blood.

?Ooooh. Yes, Reverend One. This is perfect, exactly what I had in mind! Your strokes, so deep! A work of art, you will make Lloth so pleased!?

Ssin?s voice floated away, and for a while, she knew numbness. It was the first time she had known?nothing. A void within her mind that seemed to open so very deeply, a door way swinging on broken hinges, extensive enough for anything to clatter through and sit itself deep within the brain, cackling and settling feathers happily in such a shattered place. A raven, evermore.

She was only aware of that, for a bit. Then the jarring sensation of something being forced passed locked jaw made Suliss? lift gritted lids again.

The face of some Priestess, snake-headed whip rearing and lashing in hand, flooded into view.

?This, this is price you pay for your betrayal, elg'caress. Your skin has become our message--Lloth's message to all those who dare turn their backs to flee sniveling to the surface. Your body now tells of your sins, and the fate which awaits betrayers like you. We have carved your filth into you. ...and we have broken your mind. You are truly, nothing.?

She did not have the strength to care.

____________________________


They dropped her nowhere near the place she had come the first time. Unable to move, or to speak, she lay in a pool of rainwater and horse dung along the ditch of a cobble stone road. Flies came and went, buzzing their songs in her ears, until she began to think they spoke to her.
She listened. She dreamed awake. No longer able to tell what was, and wasn?t.

Four eyes open. Six men carried a coffin across the desert. The sun?s heat beat away her skin, her hair, and then her bones. She laughed to the fire then gave herself to two black eyes that arose to darken the sun.

They changed to her sister, Skikudis, who looked down upon her with pity. She wore a strange hat and smelled of strange poisons. She moved her mouth to ask if Skikudis would dance with her in the sand made of her bones, but she disappeared to be replaced by Ssin?.

Suliss screamed. And screamed. And screamed. She did not stop.

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?By Gods ? I never thought she would stop.?

The female beside Skikudis who had spoken was covered in sweat, the others looked uncharacteristically tired, even the fact that they sweat was utterly out of place. It took so much extertion for Elven kind to do even that.

?Were you able to do anything?? Skikudis murmured, unable to pull her eyes away from the shell of what once was Suliss.

?There is something blocking the path. We do not know what it was, but ?something crawled into the dark spaces of her mind, Sister, and it making pathways of its own. It is healing her yet in its own way. We do not understand or know what it will do. ?

Skikudis snarled. ?So you are useless.? The female placed a hand upon Skikudis? shoulder. She understood where the anger could so easily come from. After all, they were all drow.

?I?m sorry. The only one, who can save her now, is her self.?

They gathered themselves tiredly and moved away from the prone position of Suliss, laid out on bearskin rugs within a deep cave. It was the sun, so they thought, that had started the hours of screaming.

Skikudis was not entirely sure what to think of her sister, now. Swollen and puffy, thick with healing but no longer oozing, a harsh slash had begun at the laying drowess? crown, and went down to between her big toe and second. The Priestess? had indeed, skinned Suliss? alive, placed her back together in bits and pieces.

Everywhere Skikudis? eyes brushed unconscious form, drown runes of hate writhed in fresh healing like red and gray death things deep in black skin. Bitch, one read, Betrayer, Heathen, Eilistraee?s Whore, Lloths most hated, Light Lover, Soulless, across the greater expanses of skin the Preistess? of Lloth had carved concise messages addressed to all other Drow who had turned their backs on Lloth and the Underdark, they were messages of bloody slaughter and curses, darkest foul things.

And not just by hand. But by magic. The scars could be helped and healed, but they could never be removed. A walking message of hate, they had made her into that.

?I should have let you die.? Skikudis whispered to her sister in the near silence. Suliss? soft breathing did not even break it. ?You are right, sister. I was, and am, too weak.?

She arose finally from beside the prone form of her sister, taking one last look around at the hovel of wild cave they had brought her too. Food, a table and chair, a few books and a clash of weapons they had upon them.

?It is I, who hopes you will forgive me.? The words fell upon the rocks. Skikudis drew back her shoulders and walked toward the light, leaving her sister in the dark behind her.

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-05-02 17:10 EST
She knew this place.

It was not The Red Dragon Inn, but she knew it somehow.

And will you let met touch your fur? Such blank eyes, do you see?

She rememb?She rem?Remember, remember, something.

In the shadows as always, entombed within a cloak once more that swirled heavy around ankles and obscured her face. The scent, she could not wholly mask yet. She was not whole?Freshly tilled earth, spring rain damp, cool and deep as that within the roots.

It was enough for a hunter to recognize the scent, and he came. Black eyed and dream-touched (always.)

He said he knew her, some how. She uncovered her face to show him all her pieces. Her face was swollen and not yet healed.

?They tore me open, and then took my mind. They laughed, perhaps I laughed ? and I danced in the sun. Where is all your fur? I-I remember fur. ? Hysteria not much more than a step behind her, it arose in her voice at the question. ?It?s gone. Stripped away like I have been. Gone, gone, spiral down ?away we go. ? She laughed (she sobbed) splaying hands in shame over her face. The sound was as if one ground heels into broken glass.

He backed away from her. For what could one who saw things as broken as she, do? It frightened him and she saw this. Revulsion at a part in her he understood too well, at some part of herself then everything. Everything I have become, because you made me.

She ran from the place, disappearing into the wilds as well as her darkness. To heal, to pick up after herself.

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A single candle light bobbled then hiccupped in some semblance of happiness, solitary on a bare wooden table.

It was covered in runes, some in old black blood, some in new and others carved by the mithril claws she had fashioned for her self. He had made his own on the opposite side with real claws. Angry for her honesty, for the truth she could not deny in everything she did.

She told him of the name and that it kept what little of her self together. She told him she remembered his face and he asked her why.

She told him. He did not like the answer.

___________

It took time. Here we are again, to the most powerful point in this tale. Time and how it passed. The abnormal things it does as well as can do.

With it, the markings upon her skin hardened into scar tissue. Furthermore against the backdrop of skin so black as to be velveteen night, these markings were akin to silver flowing in her veins.

With it, she learned to revel instead of hate the art on her body, shucking formless clothes in addition to the cloaks that kept all but the most trusted eyes from seeing.

With it, she healed. Not the same as before, no. Some note would always be out of tune, some songs would never be sung again, yet she learned the tunes. She found strange lessons from a hesitant teacher, once more to hunt under the moon ? on no account would she call the name of any deity however.

But with time, it was another beginning.

And all stories need a beginning.

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-05-23 07:27 EST
Thud-thump.

She's running frantically through halls filled with panicked men. They're trying to reach the gates, trying to find a place to hide and drive themselves underground. She's running against them, thin yet tall -- a glorious statue being trampled uncaring by metal clad foot.

All she cared about was a chance. A single chance to glimpse the face of the invading house that would dare bring hers down. She'd worked so hard, so hard after mother died. It wasn't fair, oh Lloth --why?

Stumbling, pushed out of the throng of minnow-men trying to save them selves, Ssin' wheeled around a corner and paused for breath.

What she saw waiting for her, took it away again.

----

Thud-thump.

There is so much blood. Why must we kill them all? Just a few. Kill what needs to be killed and then get on with it.

"This is my right. Shut up and let me concentrate." White hair no longer colorless gored and soaked bright red. The tips of it left loose already began to darken to rust. When she moved to slit the last guard's throat from ear to ear as he tried to run, flakes of it flurried from black skin like snow.

It was so good to return to doing what she knew best.

She smiled.

----

Thud-thump.

"You!" A single black finger arose from tattered silk, pointed toward. As if it could possibly hold any weight against the vision that assaulted her eyes.

"You?" Astounded. Absolutely impossible. Impossible. There is no way in the entirety of the Universe she was able too--

"Me." Sibilant came the whisper, slithersliding over air. To coil lovingly and sweet around Ssin' and end up feeling like the death sentence it no doubt was.

"My darling sister. We have so much to catch up on." Suliss'urn smiled.

----

Thud-thump.

She drug Ssin across the bodies of her guard. Grisly scene it was, piled atop each other. Loose limb or lost limb, a bodiless head staring gape-mouthed ahead as if surprised it had ended this way. Drug, and carried, Ssin's delicate slippers lugged through pieces and parts of her dream. Built of the backs of men to die for a woman with too much time on her hands.

Wasn't that always the way with drow, however?

The fist in the top of her hair would not let her stop climbing. Some one in the pile of dead groaned as Ssin's foot fell upon them. No time to think, only move. Panic made her mind flutter on the wind, words, words, words -- she had to find them.

"Sister I--" The back of a hand across mouth made a myriad of stars explode before her eyes.

"You will not speak. I will hear nothing. Nothing, " Yanking the head of Ssin' near golden eyes that burned as molten gold. "There is nothing left for you to say. Nothing."

And they climbed further. The monstrosity that they scaled was a small mountain of the dead. A fitting altar to the rites of revenge.

----

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-06-04 16:41 EST
ThudThumpThudThumpThudThumpThu?

Suliss?urn made her sister kneel atop the bodies of men and women once loyal to a house that would soon have no name. No memory, striken from books and words for their foolishness and downfall.

On the bodies of a family meant to unweave itself, perhaps from the moment they became one.

?Sister, please. Listen, it was??

The fist in Ssin?s hair brought the thinner shaped woman?s jaw snapping upward, baring the drowess? throat.

?I told you to be silent. There is no place for words. Words and words and more words, round and round you let me go. Here, this is the end. And no more lessons from me, from you. No more.?

ThudThumpThudThumpThudThumpThu?

Ssin? made some sort of sound. It was small, and weak, a mewling for help that both women knew would never come. Not now, not ever. It was too late.

?I lied. There is one more lesson, one which Skikudis taught me and one that you have never learned, sister mine.?

Ssin?s eyes rolled, attempting to see Suliss?urn above her to no avail. All that she saw was the flash of object bright silver in torch glow, soon cold pressed against her throat.

?Mercy.? Suliss?urn whispered into her sisters ear, before the blade ran its course under Ssin?s neck, from corner of jaw to the other. The air which should have whistled from Ssin?s mouth came from the death?s red grin above collar bones instead; vitae splashed unseen in a mess of others spilled.

ThudThumpThudThumpThudThumpThu?mp?thu?d..

Suliss?urn let go of her sister?s hair, the body falling forward and to the side. Kneeling lower, Suliss? observed emotionless the last seconds of her sister?s life.

Was it worth it? Was it worth it, to know that the revenge which kept you alive for so long fulfilled no hole in your heart?

Th..u?d?.thu?m?Thu?

She had no answer.

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-06-12 11:19 EST
It did not want to be here.

This was the first thought it had. It knew, some how, that the place in which it was buried was ...not living anymore. Dead.

And, with the first thought, came the first emotion. Fear.

I do not like this, I do not like the feel of the dead. But, how to change that. What was happening? How had life turned to that which was not life? It did not know. It struggled, for a moment weakly against the dead confines. But with each second of awareness it felt itself grow in power.

Life...near by. I must be there. Must have life. Must have thought. Must have it.

Soon, the shell of death was broken and it felt itself bounce and sway into bright light.

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The soldiers of other houses would soon come, come to see the ruins of this house --to report back to their Matrons, who would inform others, who, in turn would burn the name of this family as well as its entire line for failing.

Despite the hollowing of emotions, Suliss'urn felt the tiniest stirring of satisfaction. This is how it should be, that I belong to no one but myself.

Slithering from the pile of gore, across pieces tainted ebon-drow in eerie fae fire globes, she moved to back track her steps to the secret passage ways which had brought her here in the first place when something caught the yellow moon eyes of the huntress.

Something that glittered.

Bending down near Ssin's graying, unfurled fingers to study this shimmering thing a moment, her head tilted first to the right, then the left, her senses attempting to envelope it to check for any malicious magics left over from her darling sister in death.

She did not feel any such thing--and yet. The thing had made her feel something...

Foot falls again, outside and distant, yet footfalls nonetheless announced that she would not be alone again much longer should she stay. Without thinking, the drowess bent down and scooped the milky, flawed ruby up in fist. She then stepped back into the long shadows to fade running.

---

It was content. It had found life again.

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-06-23 19:19 EST
You have not been here.

These words were simplistic in their nature and did not hide any colors; no red or sharpness caught in between word-thoughts.

Crouched as she was near (but far) some bench near establishment?s doorway. Vines and roses grew across wood work.

?Xas.? The only answer she had given in response at first, though it held certain questions that she dared not put to air. Always, always knowing that the balance was off?you did not push what did not need to be.

Stones were piled one atop the other in the span of time neither of them said anything, and for them time meant nothing (everything). Until claws tick tapped together in prayer mockery, woven over the tops of knees.

He remarked upon the newest shimmer to her collection, raven that she was she tilted head to the right and the side as if to further the illusion of more creature than elf.

?Xas. A trinket, it shines.? This, to her, was a reasonable explanation as to why a new gem winked faded light from around her neck. Its setting was less than presentable, she did not work in metal, more worked metal into others.

For minutes or hours more, there was silence again. Until she moved, slick-slide and sly toward the leaning form upon bench?a faithful hound returned to master.

There weren?t any words at all, in fact. For a very long time after that.

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-07-03 16:52 EST
Interlude: Family gathering.

((This link leads to a thread documenting a tie in period to Suliss'urns history.))

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-09-17 12:57 EST
"Xun naut lor phor!"

The word was a whip crack in the shimmering autumn air, thick with the sounds of sleep, the business of the night when not so many insects croaked their little songs as they did in summer. Soon following the words came the sharpest crack of a hand against skin. It was sweet music to the long furl of ears listening, it was.

Pools of light from lanterns long ago lit flickered unsteady silhouettes of a wagon rolling ponderously weighted across cobblestone. Lone, wide, circular wheels bumped and skipped at a torturous pace. It was never allowed to skip forward too fast, nor was it allowed to completely stop. In fact, the pace was deliberate. The amount of strain it took to keep such control of a weighted thing must have been torturous.

Rickety shivering of the wagon echoed against establishments, shop front walls. A darkly splotched tarp was thrown carelessly across the top of it, yet from a corner here and there the distinct, different glitter of mithril (for it had such a shine compared to steel) threw the poor street lamps light like little mirrors in every direction. Pulling the wagon? Two, completely nude female drow chained together in the yoke across their shoulders meant for far greater, more powerful beasts of burdens.

Their backs bent nearly double, bodies? forward alike little hounds pointing in the direction they struggled to pull the wagon too. The skin along their shoulders had long since blistered, worn away, blistered again, worn away, until their white hair was blackened, rivulets of liquid, sweat, tears, or blood, running down skin. And the woman who walked beside them took great joy in every sobbing breathe they took.

Suliss?urn did so enjoy a lovely walk in the evening.

"Stop." A single, whispered word, as the wagon lurched to a halting cease of movement in front of the forge. Both nude drow tried to collapse to the cool of cobblestone, the yoke, and the chains jerking them to remain upright as legs buckled. The two-drow females created an odd tableau of drow-scare-crows.

"Old man," not-so whispered to the shop. "Come, come. I bring you things long promised."

For better, or for worse, Suliss?urn Xukuth had returned. Her first stop, luckily for him, was at Jodiah?s forge.


Taken from live play, edited for grammar and spelling.

Lord Ayreg

Date: 2006-09-19 10:43 EST
Jodiah Ayreg was hard at work, keeping his mind off the coming storm he was going to be facing soon. Bent over double as he examined the edge of a blade for straitness, the aged man released a huff of air through his teeth to blow away flakes of carbon dust that had gathered near the edge of what will, eventually, become the pommel. Satisfied, he straitened and moved over to the forge itself, easing the vaugely dagger-shaped piece of metal into the coals.

He was dressed as he always was when doing forgework: A leather vest with a heavier leather apron atop it, and fairly run-of-the-mill nondescript leggings and boots. He pulled down on the billows, twice, and then once more to get the fires stoked again before turning away and wiping his brow with his forearm to sweep away the gleam of sweat.

Elsewhere, the infamous little gnomes were hard at work doing.. whatever it was the forgeowner paid them to do.

Just seems like another night in the Dragon's Breath Forge, yep.

But things were not so quiet or normal outside, were they? That bizarre scene drew more than one awed, shocked, dare we say - flabberghasted - look from windows with curtains pulled open. Juuust a bit. The clatter of large wheels over cobbles wasn't exactly the most stealthiest way to go, no, and the reflection of lamps and magelight over the curtains was enough to stir the usually-nightcrawler populace of Rhy'Din, even here in the Old Town. Nobody said anything, though, merely stared until the beasts of burden, wagon, and taskmistress were gone from sight having turned down the street or simply too far now to notice.

Then, more than one very likely muttered some uncomfortable curses about the Watch not doing their duties, and wondering why they pay taxes.

Not terribly long before it came to a stop in front of the Dragon's Breath, it was spied upon by one of the local residents there who was, at present, sitting outside on a small wooden box enjoying a round of pipesmoke. Wizened face squished together as he squinted to get a better look, then popping open wide as dinner plates no sooner than did the three drow females come closer, and into better view. He turned, hopping off the box and churning short, stubby little gnome legs to scamper inside, wailing and flinging his arms about. "I-Reg! I-Reg!"

As for the old man himself, he had just looked up from his place there on the bench as he waited for the dagger to begin changing color from the heat of the forge when the gnome began to shout. He blinked, once, wiping his face again - only this time with a bar rag that he pilfered from the Red Dragon - and muttered out a tired, "What is it, Bob?"

No sooner did this take place, however, than did the not-so-whispered yet-still-ruined-sounding voice pitch in through the windows and walls and doors. He rose to his feet. Old man? and moved around the counter toward the front door while the Gnomes huddled together, now being told the story of an army of flaming-sword-swinging undead drow, ten feet tall, and clad in full plate-and-mail, rampaging down the streets at this very moment!

They huddled, quivering behind the counter as the door was opened and Jodiah Ayreg, the old man himself, stepped through that threshold to see... this.

He blinked, once, but nodded as a certain realization came across him - it had been nearly a month or so now since she had left more than a few scars on him while in the 'testing' of the first batch of her sharp things.

"Ah... Suliss'urn." It was a simple greeting, but his manner was more controlled than his tone. While it would have been a stretch to say that he was happy to see her, her presence did not displease him. One of the first things he noticed, of course, were the two naked and broken female dark elves. He was a man, after all.

The next would be the reflection of light being cast away from the edgings of the tarp that covered the wagon. From his vantage point, he couldn't quite tell how full the thing was.

"Either you're making my darkest dreams come to fruition, or that's going to be one very large shipment of mithril."

Exactly how large, though, he couldn't even have begun to imagine.

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-09-20 02:49 EST
" Qualla...nau mzild...elgg udossa.." One of the females, the one closest to Suliss'urn croaked from split and bleeding lips.

Sulissin In All Her Mercy, and Glory, lifted a bare foot without removing molten, golden eyes from the man who appeared in the doorway, and smashed the flat side of tiny, delicate foot against the mouth of the woman who'd spoke. She was as always, as the force of her kick made the woman's head snap sharply to the left --completely calm.

"You will speak in common. You will die when I want you too. " Though she did not tell the woman, who spat out a few teeth to rattle and chink across the cobble stone, to stop begging of course. Every woman had vices. Shoes, shopping, shiny things. Suliss just wanted to hear some one beg for death every once and a while. Was that so hard to ask for?

"Jodiah." Ah. She remembered the name with the face. It was a good enough greeting, and her lip did not curl disdainfully upon him. She, also, remembered their test of sharp things. Which had, at least, heightened her opinion of him - but how far, really, and, how would anyone know?

"I bring you mithril." Just in case he didn't notice. "Xas." And then at the mentioning of darkest desires, she turned eyes back to the women shivering and mewling pitifully.

"Do you want them? You may have them. I did not have time to throw them in the slave pens before getting here." Suliss' voice was a beautiful, horrible, thing. One could almost hear the sweet tones that had vaulted her to bard of Eilistraee at one point, but those tones had been raped long ago by endless screaming. They two women did not even lift their head, as the drow flicked another considering gaze at the old man, toe to head.

"I did not think you would have interest in them. I hear tales of human men breaking when they age." Pointed, and blunt. Yes, yes she did say that. This evening's attire was marginally appropriate. Hanging low on hips some rather draw string to keep the long, A line flow of rich watery material that rippled with every little move to flair to ankles. Her feet were completely bare of course. The shirt may have been decent at some point, until she'd ripped it to shreds, and re wove it around herself for optimum movement, leaving the skin marred by hate to be licked with silvery light from the lamps. Moon pale hair was ever, ever in a braid thick as a man's wrist, sharp as a knife, and swinging to the very ankles where liquid silk flowed.

"It seemed fitting," she said after a bit of thought, she meant the drow women tied then chained to the yoke. "They would have stopped me from bringing you this metal,? a petulant, almost childish tone. As if she could not have believed anyone would have tried to stop her from taking what she wanted.

And, what a change a little time spent in the Underdark could do, no? It seemed she?d learned a few more, finer nuisances in the ability to speak in a manner more easily understood. For better or for worse, these occasions dawdled away had done something, something to change her tiniest bit.

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-10-09 18:53 EST
The gnomes had made short work of the delivered Mithril, and Jodiah?s crisp, business like request that the drowess follow him within the shop had piqued the woman?s curiosity.

Following him inward, past the countertops of the main room, Ayreg lead her to the small silver workshop, not much more than a room itself. Brushing past him the drowess commandeered the middle of the tiny room then claimed it for her self in round about steps.

Circling had soon stopped, to touch this or that, fluttering a fingertip to drag over here or there, fiddle with some thing, set it down. He could stand there all he wanted unimpressed with her pacing about; it was lost on her at the moment. Back turned somewhat, her spine, her shoulders a sinuous temple to muscle that slithered under scar-black skin (thrown blue, gray, mercury for the runes, white sheen in smooth places. Though there were little of those), her hair, though, when swinging still as she stopped in mid motion at his words, picked up every single color the flame of candle had. Such was the way of white that glistened, ruddy yellow orange, bright. (A mockery of sunlight in moon.)

Her hand had been reaching for something; it furled away in random, graceful, meaningless gesture. Jodiah Ayreg had asked her something. Had offered her something with a querulous tone that had caught the drow, even though she did her best to seem disinterested in whichever the old man had to say. Gray owl, green eyes. What do you see?

Even when she is still, however, thinking, she seemed to dance the blades. Her response at first, was some sort of mmmmm, from the back of throat, leaving it open for the man to continue. Though, she changed her mind and followed it with a quip to him, whispering tones a soft mocking of such things and a passing remark on human males as well as poetry.

She turned after she spoke, and it was a lovely thing. All in one motion, of a spiral, body following the careful point of her toes turned to him. But. But. Gold eyes where sharp upon him as she set aside her playful words to inquire sharply as to what he wanted. And then the delicate features which made artisan's weep where fixed toward him with a serpentine crane of neck. Alike he was making a deal with the devil, or a devil woman, either way. Sharp eyes just as lightening quick, turned lidded as Jodiah Ayreg frowned at her.

And he answered.

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-10-13 08:18 EST
Interlude: Little Sisters

((This thread leads to another plot point/SL/Part of Suliss'urn's history and present. You may read more, by following the above link.))

Sulissurn

Date: 2006-10-27 18:10 EST
Interlude: Sword and Shadow

((Suliss'urn's current Plot is now taking place within Dark Lake Manor, intertwined with the Lady Alysia and Lord Ayreg. You may read about it further by following the above link.))