As Kain and Magnus "rode' through the country side, they came upon peasants toiling the on the grounds of a castle. As they went up to they came beside a person pulling a cart.
"Old Woman!" Kain called.
"Man!" came the reply in a deep voice.
"Sorry," Kain grunted , feeling embarrassed. "What it the name of the knight that lives in yon castle?"
"And I'm thirty-seven.... I'm not old," the man said.
Feeling stupid for the first time in this fic, (and hopefully not he last) Kain tried to mack amends. "Well, I can't keep calling you 'Man' or 'Peasant'."
"Well, you could say 'Dennis'," replied Dennis.
Kain furrowed his brow"I didn't know your name," he said.
Dennis trudged along, pulling his cart. "You didn't bother to aks, did you," he sniped at Kain.
This peasant was going to get it, if he didn't keep his mouth shut, thought Kain. "I did apologize about calling you an old woman. But with what you are wearing, from behind you looked...."
Dennis finally stopped. "That's fine," Dennis said. "But what I object to is that you automatically treat me as an inferior."
Kain twitched. "But you are. You are not only a peasant, but a human one as well," Kain told Dennis. "I am king."
Dennis looked at him. "A king, eh. Now that nice. And how did you get that, eh?" Dennis questioned Kain. "By exploiting the workers! By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society! If there's ever going to be any progress...."
Just then an old woman appeared. "Oh! There is some lovely filth down here," she called to Dennis. Then she noticed Kain. "Oh, how do you do," she said to Kain.
"I am Kain, King of all Nosgoth," Kain told her. And whose castle is that?"
Dennis clamored down to help her with the filth.
She looked confused. "King of what?"
"Nosgoth!" Kain growled.
"Nosgoth? I thought we lived in Britannia?"
Kain was starting to believe that Magnus, even with all that was done to him, was smarter then this human rabble. "No! You live in Nosgoth. And I am your King!"
"I didn't know we had a king," she mused "I thought we were an autonomous collective....."
"You're fooling yourself," Dennis told her. We're living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes...."
Had about enough of this, and was ready to kill. But in time like this his therapist had told Kain to count to ten. It seemed like the best time to start. One.
The old woman cut Dennis off. "There you go bringing class into it again!"
"That's what it's all about," Dennis told her. "If only the people would...."
Two. "Peasants! Who lives in yon castle?" Kain was very angry and the counting was not helping.
"No one live there," the old woman told Kain.
"Then tell me, who is your lord?"
"We don't have a lord."
Three. "What?"
"I told you," Dennis spoke. Four. "We're an anarcho-sydicalist commune, we take turns to act a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs...." Five ."....but a two-thirds majority in the case of a more major...."
Six. Kain had enough of Dennis's dribble. "Silence! I order silence."
"An order, eh." the old woman looked at Dennis. "Who does he think he is?"
Seven. The counting still was not working. "I am Kain! King of all Nosgoth!"
"Well, I didn't vote for you."
Eight. "You don't vote for kings."
She looked at kain with her hands on her hips. "Well, how did you become king, then?"
Nine. "I took the land for the ignorant masses," Kain told her.
"Oh that nice! Stealing the land!" Dennis said. "Who gave you that right? If I went over to my neighbor....'
Ten! No the counting did not work. Kain took the Soul Reaver from his back and ran towards Dennis. With one swing of the mighty sword Kain killed the peasant and drained him of his blood. "Va Victious! he yelled. He then turned to the old woman, who stood tin total shock. Kain smiled as he impaled her on the sword.
Two less peasants to worry about, Kain thought as he watched Magnus devour the corpses.