Feel What I Feel, Burn The Way I Burned 2012-04-29
((See previous adventure No. 24 to understand))
No...I didn't understand her. Her thoughts ploughed through mine, I could feel them tainting my mind and memories. Images of her past deeds that I was unaware of bore down on me, overwhelming my mind. Images of the people she's killed and images of when she tortured Brinna, I could see it all again, vivid as if I were reliving the past. She had broke her fingers and wrist and then she chained her to the wall in shackles. Her armour was broken and cracked, she was stripped of her dignity. Her hair lay on the floor around her as she looked down in disgrace. I could hear her cackling in the back of my mind. The laughter pierced me and I cringed."You thought I had become sympathetic for you? For anyone? Slyand, you do not know me. This may be your body but I am superior. You had let your guard down and what a foolish thing to do. I only helped you in my best interests, I couldn't give a damn what you did and I never will. Watch now as I do what I was created to do...What we were created to do. Be a weapon of war and killing." The words stung me like a hot blade searing its way through my chest. "This is how I felt when your Paladin killed me! FEEL WHAT I FEEL, BURN THE WAY I BURNED!" Her laughter ringing through me sent me to my knees, my head spun and my vision going blurry then blackened.
I was standing on a road in Duskwood - No, kneeling. Kneeling over an unrecognisable corpse, blood strewn across the bricks and flesh maimed and torn hanging limply from the carcass. I got up, my head stinging. I lifted my hand up to my head but was stopped and a dreadful sight. I knew I was capable of seeing blood...and lots of it but the blood on my hand dripped slowly off onto the floor. Chunks of flesh littered the puddle I was standing in. Blood adorned my armour making the once blue armour glow dark red. I was caked from head to toe in blood and chunks of flesh. I turned around and saw two more unrecognisable bodies, similar to the first body.
What had she done...This was not the Malice I knew before, this was an abomination in my mind, growing on me, hell-bent on consuming me from the inside out. I heard laughter, her laughter. She knows I'm weakened. It's only a matter of time.