Topic: Dawning

Mikael

Date: 2005-07-08 02:28 EST
Glittering shards of a broken sword lying on a stone slab, deep in a crypt of the Temple in Rhydin's old Merchant Quarter. A pair of small black onyx roses remained from the hilt ? but nothing else marked where the body once lay.

"Where did you go, old man? I have questions to ask of you," the Serjeant spoke slowly in the cold room. "You let me cut you down, knowing that it wasn't an ending; you used me -- now you owe me some answers."

Tao

Date: 2005-07-08 02:39 EST
"He is hurting," the Voice said. "He did indeed cut down your last incarnation, yet still asks aid of you? With nary a touch of irony?"

"I did use him," the man replied, seated on a thin pad in the center of the mirror knot. "I led him away from the lass, set he and his squad up for the kill -- made it look like a necessity... and he is right to ask for aid, for he knows it will come to him. He hasn't yet connected all the pieces, cannot yet see that the killing was the catalyst that bought him the time he will need to free himself from his addiction... but he will. It will hurt him far more than anything he thought to do to me, but he will."

"And what of the priest?" asked the Voice.

"For him, it will be worse."