Epilogue
Lillandra Ranghoul sat alone in the darkness. She sat in the room she had once shared with her husband, who now was dead.
For hours she contemplated a plot to take revenge on those who had killed her husband. Her only obstacle was that she didn't know who had murdered the man she loved.
Then someone stood in the middle of the doorway. Like Lillandra, the stranger was a drow.
The drow's eyes were amber and her hair was long and white. She wore black armor over her body, which was perfectly shaped in all of the right places. One her right hand, she wore many silver rings, and a circlet on her forehead.
"You sit here in darkness, saddened by the loss of your lover," the stranger said in a cold seductive voice. "You sit here and plot your revenge, yet you don't know where to start. What if I told you that I could help you?"
Lillandra shifted her eyes at the stranger. The stranger smiled and said," The man who killed your husband is a vampire hunter named Shadimir Deachron. He is from Silverymoon, and lives with his wife Stephanie and two children Jacen and Andreya. He has another daughter named Yondalla who is training at the Spirit Soaring. His friend Jepetto lives a few houses down and his sister in law Aliyah lives with his other friend Deidra."
"Who are you?" asked Lillandra," Why do you want to help me?"
The drow female smiled wickedly. "I am Malice. As for why I am so eager to help you," she paused for a moment, circling the vampiress, then continued," revenge is something my goddess teaches. She also teaches that power is gained by mastering the dead. I worship the goddess Kiaransalee, a goddess of revenge and undeath. She sent me to help you Lillandra."
"Shadimir has wronged the Lady of the Dead in the past, and now is the time in which his should must be delivered to her."
Lillandra felt new life breath into her. She felt that Malice could help her get revenge, and that Kiaransalee was her kind of goddess.
She looked up at Malice and asked," When do we make our first move? Do we find him and just kill him?"
"Always with questions," sighed Malice. "We will need to raise an army of undead warriors and attack Silverymoon. Something similar to your Wolves, but stronger. Silverymoon will not be so easy to crush. And we must hurry. Kiaransalee has learned the Spider Queen Lolth (Lillandra noticed Malice hiss as she pronounced the Spider Queen's name) has already sent a warning to Shadimir, so we must move swiftly. But first you should clean yourself up."
Lillandra nodded and left the room, leaving Malice alone.
"And when he arrives home, the only ones who will be there to welcome him back will be me and the walking corpses of those he loves."