Authors Note – I'm going to try to clear a few things up in the next few chapters. The jars in the chamber are immortality jars. If you put a personal effect in it you are immortal provided the jar isn't removed from the chamber or destroyed. This will come into play soon. Also for Umah remembering her past, I'm taking creative license. I never said they were clear-cut memories either. She remembers being lonely, not having friends, etc. These are like memories from when you're young when you can't remember a whole event but just a picture in your mind or an emotion connected to the event. This fic may go on hiatus over the summer. I can only update from my schools computer for some reason. On the Microsoft at my house it saves it to a user and then says some junk about not being able to load or something which is really annoying. I'll tell you if it's going on hiatus. If anyone has any suggestion about anything I'll take them into consideration. I also got a map of Soul Reaver 1 Nosgoth. I don't know if anything changes but I'd like to keep this map for reference unless there is some huge error. This is a complex chapter so I'll try to do a second version if I can clarify anything. Enough junk from me, viva la fic!
The Thief's Betrayal
It was a beautiful night in the sanctuary of the clans. The clouds hung in the air like a misty shroud. The moon was eclipsed by their inky darkness. Now and then the moon shone through with its ghostly light, illuminating the ground below. Silver covered the trees and grass and gave a beautiful if not purely mystical brilliance to the place.
There was only one figure out in the night, a figure that stealthily crept through the courtyard and down the path to the forest. She had a job to do and it would take her a few nights and she had to be unnoticed. She wasn't even supposed to leave the sanctuary of the clans. Her lady hadn't sent her on a mission. She had no idea what to tell any guards if she was unfortunate enough to stumble across them.
She crept into the forest where she had been raised. She knew the forest like the back of her hand. This was the Termogent forest. She would have to pass through this forest to get to the chronoplast. She was going north then she would have to go east and southwest. She just hoped that she wouldn't be caught when she doubled back. She was taking more time than was needed but also being more elusive. She knew that speed was more important than stealth but had learned to balance the two. Fortunately her lord and lady would be at a banquet where she would not be needed. There was a very small chance that they would notice her absence. What was one servant missing among the multitude of the others?
"Umah where is your spy? I need to have words with her." Kain asked and looked up from his first course of a female. "I do not know my lord. I will whisper for her." Umah replied as she set down her drained slave.
She closed her eyes and concentrated on projecting her thoughts. Something was strange here. She couldn't sense Elrelith's presence anywhere. "I will be back soon my lord." She said and left the hall and went to Elrelith's room. She knocked on the door and waited for a minute. Then she pushed open the door to see an organized but lacking room. Many of Elrelith's possessions were gone; Trinthasil wasn't leaning in the corner like it usually was. Everything that she had valued was gone, the thief had run. Umah stepped out of the room and closed the door. Kain would not be pleased, but there were others who could do his work.
As she walked down the corridor something began to pull at her mind. There was something that she had told Elrelith that she shouldn't have. What was it though? The damned girl had learned about the chronoplast! Why had she told her that? Ah yes she was to be Umah's lady in waiting and Umah held no secrets from her highest servant. It didn't matter now, she would hunt her down and kill her for her betrayal.
She kneeled at Kain's side and explained to him why she was leaving. "Go now my Queen. Be safe and be strong, show her no mercy.". She leapt out a window with her fury and Kain's blessing as her companions.