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CHAPTER4:
CALLOUS EPISTLE?

"Tasuki.

This letter is to give you my heartfelt thanks. You have been with me through a lot of difficulties voluntarily and by force. This has been possible only because you have been there to aid me.

I came here with a mission and not just an errant.

I the former queen of the Shirozen blood clan came here with the mission of destroying that plague the Shehinen was threatening to spread unto your world.

Victory is what I have achieved, for this night that will be accomplished.

Yes Tasuki. Victory I have dreamed of.

Every warrior wishes for a warrior's death and that has been given to me in this lifetime.

Like every war in history, there have been sacrifices to serve the good. And for this cause there must be a sacrifice as well. This time. The sacrifice, myself.

I mean to offer myself unto the heavens as self-sacrifice, in doing so glorifying my gods.

In doing so, I will also achieve the victory I have waited for. I will be taking with me, the Shehinen.

That alone is my sole purpose in being given a life, Tasuki. The only reason I had been given a life. That completed I am ready to leave this mortal world gladly.

But when I came here, what I never expected was to see you or meet someone as radical as you. I am glad to have done so.

Tasuki, the Shirozen as you already know is a sisterhood of justice. We are the blood clan in another dimension, bound by the rules of the blood warriors. We, the Shirozen are an autarkic clan who interferes in no other world's problems.

In this clan we follow autarchy, the absolute rule. Once set, the rules of the clan must be obeyed even if it meant seeing death in the face. In this clan Tasuki, I was born and I have sinned. It is a sin to love. And that sin has a punishment.

Bangdir, the branding. I had been branded falsely all because I was trying to protect Hwesta. But now I must tell you, I deserve it and I have been rightly punished for now I know that I have indeed committed the sin. I am in love; I will be in love for eternity with that one human alone, who I can identify with, as easy as I can breathe. He has given me adventures and he has taught me to be really human, he has taught me the best and worst luxury in the world. The ability to feel.

I am proud to say Tasuki that this human is highly skilled and suited for true glory. I am proud to say that I knew such a man and I was his at least once.

I am also proud to say that, that man Tasuki. Is you.

By the time you reach my memories Tasuki, the sacrifice would have been made and there can be no stopping fate. All I can ask of you is this. Please. Let yourself into acceptance. There is nothing else to do about it.

I ask of another thing Tasuki, hold onto these beads you find, for in my last hours I have restrung them with my spirit for you. Let the beads guide your happiness.

So dear love, 'upon the touch of your hand on mine. My last breath shall be had for you.'

Yours forever.

Silme bluestreak."

I heard Hwesta finish the letter I dreaded reading. It was for me and I wished now that I never had found it. Not to witness the death of my dear Silme. My beautiful Silme.

'Why didn't you just tell me when you were alive Silme! We could have done something about it. Things could have ended another way! You didn't have to die.' I whispered watching my warrior queen lie there lifeless. The only satisfaction I had then, since I watched Hwesta perform the ritual, she had at last reached the stars she talked about ever so often.

'This is how things were meant to be Tasuki. If you had known that she loved you, what exactly is it that you would have done?' Hwesta seemed skeptical. 'No. She would have it no other way. She died a warrior's death and to her the completion of her life's purpose meant more than games of the heart. You knew just how duty bound a spirit she was. There was no possibility for fates to change anyway.'

'She could have just told me.' I knew Hwesta was right. That was exactly Silme she had described there.

'And if she had, you would have let her sacrifice herself? I think not.' Hwesta stood up.

'Of course I wouldn't.' I snapped.

'That is exactly how fate works. Things do not go as you plan them, you go as they plan. She died a warrior's death Tasuki and-'

This enraged me at once. 'This is not a warrior's death you fool!' I jumped to my feet. 'This is cowardice! A warrior's glory lies in war. Death in war alone is the glory for him. This is suicide!' I stopped abruptly as she smiled lightly.

'Would you not call a war within yourself a war as well Tasuki? Silme died in war. A war to defeat the Shehinen and she died a warrior's death in defeating the Shehinen. The evil she contained within herself to protect the world. That according to my knowledge is surely a warrior's death.'

I stood silent. The many signs Silme gave me that, there indeed was a war going on within her was undeniable. She told me so many times of the struggle with her own mind.

'Will you help me Tasuki?'

'What?'

'Will you give me a hand with my Silme?'

'You call her your queen no more?' I was confused by this sudden change.

'She will always be my only queen. Even now I follow her instructions. She has set me free.' She walked to me and took my hands in hers.

'Please Tasuki. She deserves a warrior's funeral. Will you join me in sending my departed sister from this world forever?' her eyes showed the emotion at last. They were pleading me.

I sighed, ' It will be my honor.' I looked down at her. My Silme.

It endeth hereth my pretties. Puleezeth readeth and revieweth. Hope you is the enjoyed iteth….(he he he) O;;;; ( now that's shakespeare for you... he he he)
later then... a bein tot .