Title: stand

Summary: The events at the end of TWWRLAM as seen by the witch's apprentice

Authors Note: I like the fist half, but not the second. Tell me what you think
You stand there

As always

Tall and imposing

As if nothing can make you seem anything less than you are

Not the rope that ties your hands behind your back

Not the cut on your forehead that baths your face in blood

Not the logs at your feet dry as summer could make them

Not the crowd surrounding you throwing rocks and shouting insults

But the stake

The stake

It is all there is to proves you are not in complete control

It shows a weakness in you that the crowed devourers like starving wolves

If you were to fall, to cease standing

The stake would hold you in your place

But were the stake to fall it would pull you down

And once more the crowed cries out

We have stood hear all night

The priest says that with the mourning

Shall come a light powerful enough to rid this town of evil

But you are not evil

You are not even from this town

A torch is cast onto the wood at your feet

Light blazes

And roars

With the energy we have given it

The light plays upon your face

Oranges, reds and yellows lick at your dress

They reach for the sky

The priest cries out

Telling us of the god you have angered

So cruel is Yahzed

And quit easy to anger I imagine

Yet drought and famine brought our town to its knees

Not his anger towards you

The priest continues to scream

The sky is clear

The wind blows softly

The sun gently warms us all

But all here are cold with fear

They fear you

I fear for you

"No!"

A woman's voice screams out

Cutting out all else

Purple fire streams before her

Several villagers charge

A cavern opens at their feet

"Fiend!"

The priest cries out

Then shrieks as his spell pendent shatters

The mage is on horseback

And these's people are not warriors

Rocks fly though the air

She uses magic to deflect them

The crowd brakes

And runs

"Goddess!" she cries

"Give me rain!"

From the clear, azure sky

Strom clouds blot out the sun

Thunder cracks

Rain pours down

Where the flames had danced

Steam drifts, lazily

The mage cuts you free

Gathering you onto her companions horse

Lightning flickers

The mage shatters the stake

It is gone

You are gone

My time here has ended

I must leave

Will I ever see you again?

Master? Mage?

Or am I alone

Authors Note: So what do you think? Reviews adored

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