Darklight – (cue Harrison Ford voiceover) It's not my fault!
I blame my job. Either I get to write or I get to sleep (and I only get 6 hours sleep as it is). Too many other stuff are happening as well. RP, sports, my original fiction series (which still has priority over a lot of other things…. like sleep), etc.
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Faith stirred and slowly opened her eyes. The first thing that she saw was Akara's concerned face. The worry in the old woman's eyes brought her fully awake and she sat up. Or tried to.
"Do not. You are still weak from the poison," Akara said, putting a hand on the Slayer's arm. Faith allowed herself to be restrained, not that she really had a choice in the matter. "How are you feeling otherwise?"
"Like a fucking rockstar the morning after," Faith muttered. Akara gave her a questioning look. "Nevermind."
It took Faith another day to fully recover from her latest brush with death, which was probably a good thing. Warriv needed that long to ready his caravan for the journey east across the great desert and having an impatient and fully active Slayer around would not have helped matters. Then, the journey hit another snag. Faith took one look at a camel and flatly refused to ride it. She had no problem throwing herself at the ugliest, smelliest and noisiest of demons. But one look at the long-haired, snorting, smelly animal and she dug her heels in. It did not help when one of the foul-tempered beasts spat at his handler and hit him with unnerving accuracy right between the eyes. Finally, Warriv allowed her to ride in a wagon, although he did warn her that that might not be as much of a reprieve as she thought it would be.
The Slayer was in for a surprise as the caravan rumbled its way out of the Rogue camp on its way to the Monastery and the desert beyond. Both Liene and Leoric greeted her astride a pair of white mares with the ease born of long practice. The Rogue greeted her cheerfully.
"Of course we are going," Leoric boomed with equal cheer, answering her unasked question. "I pledged to rid the world of Evil and what greater Evil is there than the demon which you seek?"
"And I swore an oath to protect you," Liene piped in.
"Besides," Leoric added. "You did not expect us to let you have all the fun, did you?"
Faith looked from one to the other and could not help but laugh.