The dream started in the same setting, but this time, she knew that she would not be alone. Therefore, she sought to seek that person.
A hand suddenly enclosed over her's, and she would have shrieked if she did not recognise it.
"Did I not say that I would be there?" Gann said with a smile. "Therefore, let us walk together. Even in this place."
The wall was in front of them and it hurt him to see her walking straight to that spot, because it indicated that this was something that she has seen very often.
"I do not understand myself." She said softly. "I hate this sight, yet I wish to see it, because I want to see him again. But he is not able to see me. Because this is still a dream, isn't it? I can see what happened, but that is all that I am allowed to have."
However, there was something very different. Not only was Gann here in her dreams, there was someone else too.
A tall robbed figure stood in front of the wall, his back facing them. However, neither of them needed any more then this. They could simply feel who he was.
Amiltha become completely still and when her lips moved, only one word came out.
"Lord."
She ran to him and knelt in front of him.
"Are you judging me, my lord?" she whispered. "Is that why you would show yourself to me?"
"You have done nothing wrong." Kelemvor assured her. "You have remained faithful. Even though you are not happy with his death and the punishment, you are acceptant of this."
"But why show me this then?" she asked. "Why…torment me with this?"
"This is not my doing. You are here because you wish to see the one enclosed against this wall. Because of where you are, your dream shows you the reality instead. However, I know that you never once doubt of this being the truth."
"I know that he would end up being here." She said in a very matter of fact way. The truth was that she was more likely to become a faithless should he not be there, because that would be a defiance to all that she had believed in.
"Yet you pray for the ability to be able to speak to him again." Her god said. "I will grant it, as you have been faithful."
Then he was gone and his departure, the dream was gone too. She knew that he had sent her to be in front of the wall. She could hear the cries and screaming of the wall because there was no dream to silence them.
"…Amiltha."
It was his voice, but his voice was now very hoarse, barely a whisper. Yet at the same time, that arrogance and bitterness was still there.
"Bishop." She said softly.
"I am here as you said that I would be." This was sneered out. "So why aren't you laughing?"
Gann understood what the soul was referring to as he has seen that memory in Amiltha's dream. What he has seen had been enough to give him an understanding of the man's character, which led to his dislike.
The worst part was that this was when the other actually cared for Amiltha. If that was his affection, Gann really had little desire of seeing what Bishop was like before that.
"I wanted to have something to laugh at you when you had backed me against the wall with your blade against my throat, not when you are at this state. However, I wish that I can laugh at you Bishop, as you would prefer me laughing at you, instead of what I am doing now."
He hated pity, especially if he was the one receiving it.
"Where is your dashing Knight Captain, Amiltha? Have you replaced him with this hagspawn? I suppose I ought to congratulate your taste- at least it is not the paladin." The other sneered, his eyes moving onto Gann.
"Why do you always see something that isn't there?" she whispered. "Even at the very end…"
As if Storm's crime of being Duncan's nephew was not though, he had hinted that she had a part in making it worse.
"You made his cause your cause, you choose to die for him." he said angrily. "Yet I offered you a choice…"
"I love Storm as a brother, so I could not abandon him. Perhaps that is a type of chain too, although it is a chain that I am willing to have. However, I don't think you can understand that…it is too late."
The wall began to shake and they all knew that the end would soon come.
"…yes, it is coming. My death." Bishop said and he actually did not sound unhappy about it. "I will be able to be free from all this soon. As I ought to have been."
"Yes, you will be." Amiltha said calmly. "But I want to ask you one question: I think that is why I wish to see you again. Bishop…tell me why you saved me."
"Are you sure that I saved you?" Bishop snickered. "Just because I died beside you, it doesn't mean that I saved you."
"When I used the word, I do not use it as how most of people would use it. I do not mean that you shielded my body or pushed me out of the way as someone like Storm or Casavir would have done. No, I merely mean that you did something to help me, although I don't know what you did. I don't care what you did because I know that you did do something. However, I wish to know why you did it."
"Because I did not want to see you die." The ranger said simply. "That is all."
"And now I will see you die and I can never forget the sight." She said. "Perhaps you win again."
When he betrayed them, he had told her that he could have cared for her in his own way. To know that was worse then believing that he did not and would not care for her at all, because that indicated that he had deliberately made the choice of not caring for her.
"…you selfish bastard." She muttered. "You hate being chained, yet you would chain me to you forever."
No matter what, she could never forget him due to all that had happened. Even though she might very well move on with her life and end up loving someone else, she would always remember him.
"…that is who I am." Bishop said simply. "Told you that I will always win."
Amiltha did not move even though she knew what horrifying scenes would soon unfold. Instead, she fixed her gaze upon Bishop and did not turn away until he was finally gone.
"If there are chains, then it is chains that you choose to have as well." Gann commented.
"You are right." She admitted. "I wish to hold onto my memories and because of this, I will let myself be chained."
Author's Note: The faithful is naturally Amiltha, since she remained devout to Kelemvor, and would have risked fighting Storm.
I know that in the game, Bishop comments about Casavir as there is the famous Bishop-KC-Casavir triangle that most of us would know. However, Amiltha would never have that type of relationship with Casavir. She does not really dislike him, although she probably does find his view a bit irritating. However, that is all. She and Storm would be very close though, so I can see Bishop being jealous of Storm more. Not to mention that she did choose to stay with Storm instead of going away with him. He did ask her to come with him although the hard bit is working out 'how' he would have asked her. It might not have been a genuine offer, but Bishop simply saying: "What if I ask you this?" I don't know, because I haven't wrote about it.
As for what he did, I feel that it is better if I leave it vague for the reader to interpret.
