[Pove. Emeroth]
I've been helping the Cabal for weeks with supplies and weapons, very often eliminating guards from hard-to-find locations, and while keeping an eye on Kain and his actions, many times I have also destroyed glyph systems leaving some passages open but they are very hidden.
to identify my help I always left a feather of my wings, sometimes these feathers also fell involuntarily but they were the message of my passage in that area, By spying on Vorador I had always managed to go to places of interest before the vampire cabal armies, I was one step ahead of them and I was able to find any passage useful for pointed or surprise attacks.
I was always one step ahead of everyone and that's why Vorador picking up the feathers was investigating who I was, and maybe he suspected me, but the only evidence was just those black feathers that could belong to any bird.
So I was able to explore every time even areas like the high city, the industrial area, a church and once only the castle of the Sarafan lord, that time I wanted to keep an eye on Kain because he wanted to enter the castle to save a vampire, I think she was Vorador's favorite daughter... Well, sometimes I forget his name or I don't tie him to the second part of this story.
I followed Kain through the various puzzles, I was vigilant in case he ever needed help but out of curiosity I went ahead in my raven form I landed on the pigeon of the facility where Umah was prisoner and I saw someone from the other depart, I didn't go in there to not be seen I just watched some guards come in, and Kain was hiding, while I was waiting there trying to pass for a normal bird.
I waited for a couple of seconds and I could also smell the fresh blood of those guards that Kain had killed, and then I saw them coming out the back Umah and Kain, of course she was not well seemed very weakened I thought they were just physical torture at that time.
I had to remain vigilant as I perceived that Hylden again, and I lowered my head to Umah and Kain and saw him close, even too much with himself had the noble Soul Reaver, that sword in the hand of that being lost all its purity and was corrupted, By now it gave me the shivers watching him wield the weapon but I could not look away or leave those two were in danger for sure.
I'm not saying I got strong because I was on the pigeon hole the whole time, but Umah was very weak to pronounce the spell to teleport them into the lair, so I acted using the spell with the risk that they would catch me, So I conjured purple fires that enveloped them and drove them away before General Hylden hit them with a harvester's blade.
But I was able to fly away like nothing happened, you see that the times of the Sarafans have changed because the guards in defense of the castle were little awake, but on the other hand there was to count that most had taken out Kain, while I had eliminated the other half.
After that event I helped the Cabal again in their duties and meanwhile I knew Kain had to recover a particular artifact I did not understand what it was.
Speaking of Kain surely I can confirm his loyalty, because that night he entered that castle confirmed me, saving that woman in particular also showed me that he was in love with that vampire, normally a warrior who has to free a prisoner does not immediately rush to the rescue, but rather in a cold mind thinks how useful the warrior can be such as conditions will be the body and psyche after the different tortures suffered, if the methods have not changed it is necessary to be cautious about these things, is not always the victim will always boast of trusting their allies entirely especially when late minutes or seconds that may seem hours or days.
It's not to say that I would have preferred that she died in the castle, but honestly for what happened that day maybe it was a right end that...
It's hard to talk about it because it's kind of my trauma and so my mind often plays jokes, sometimes I say it's bloody like what I see other times as a very passionate thing, other times I can say that it was a cold-blooded choice dictated by the conditions, and I believe more in the last than the other versions.
I heard a conversation between Kain and Umah, well remember I said when I told the escape of the two from the castle well "I thought it was just physical torture" of course I was wrong because I saw very well the vampire accuse Kain on the basis of only assumptions and concerns of Vorador, I also knew them only because I listened to him, but someone perhaps General Hylden, He manipulated her and she came to get the Nexuss Stone a powerful artifact that could have marked victory for Kain or defeat if it had been used against him.
From what I heard that artifact was able to avoid being injured by the Soul Reaver, I did not understand why they created that evil object, Of course, I sighed when he realized that in addition to the sword being powerful, no one had anticipated the Hylden's likely return to Nosgoth.
and that fool was still taking the stone to the Sarafans and General Hylden, obviously there was no escape Umah panicked made a fatal mistake teleporting forward a guard sarafan, That seeing her took us a while to alert the other patrols and engage in battle with the vampire, what she could do was shoot down as many as possible and escape to the harbor on one of the ships.
was seriously injured even though I had eliminated some soldiers, Umah had failed to defeat them all and was about to be killed by a last man who was then killed by Kain arrived on the spot, I remained only to observe, Of course, it sounds like a fairy tale, doesn't it?
The brave dark knight in white armor saves his lady... No, it's not at all how you can believe it, even though until now I've said various things and pushed you to think the right thing.
If he was very angry at first, then he reasoned with a cold mind, even though Umah prayed for his life Kain did not hesitate to take the Nexuss stone, and to ask her some questions even if she prayed to be saved or to drink blood, She didn't know, or if she denied it, she would die in pain, nor could Kain's blood save her, and he granted her death for that very reason as well as realizing that she could be an obstacle given her manipulation, the only thing it took to light the fuse of Kain to make him perform an act was betray his trust and his bearing, Kain follows the law of the nobles "so I decide and am adamant" Nothing would have made him attack the Cabal if Umah believed him he would have seen it, but unfortunately everything has been retracted.
After Kain's departure, I acted in the last action of the Cabal, I no longer saw in Kain a hero of my youth, just a man who, like everyone else, was betrayed by people and ideals, and for this reason he sought to pursue the right path, But in honor of Vorador I wouldn't have let her daughter fall into the hands of the Sarafans, much less that she was the subject of necromancer experiments or whoever was brought the vampire dressed in red, so I took the body and buried it elsewhere.
I had a very impromptu funeral and I made her a grave with her name and that's it, the grave was very similar to one for human beings, but buried it near my hiding place, every now and then I go to visit her to leave some flowers, not to make the deceased feel forgotten.
[End of memory return of the narration in third person.]
Emeroth looked down and sighed as Xilel looked at her, wondering why she, too, had not had the chance to retract with her grandfather, and felt as if she had been hit by a punch in the stomach.
She felt the tears pricking her, while Emeroth noticed it -Why are you crying? - she asked - Why didn't my grandfather retract Dad's death? Wasn't it enough to rip off his stupid wings? - cried sobbing in a broken voice, Emeroth embraced her - sometimes certain decisions are too complex to comprehend but one day it will be clear to you, you just have to think and seek clarity - said the ancient.
The girl instinctively clung to the woman and continued to cry that night, while Emeroth calmed her while caressing her head covered by the hood, After a while she just noticed that she had fallen asleep against her chest so she thought to lift her up and bring her directly to the enigma room to get out.
in the place there were the rays of the sun that beat on the center of the room, the child had recently fallen asleep so decided to put in a shaded area and cover the baby with wings and let her sleep until the next evening, While he thought back to the events that preceded the child, what he had suffered and why he had not let Kain die in that hole that day that saving him by condemning the child to the loss of her father was really her fault?
She knew she was feeling guilty and the only one who was supposed to be in a hole full of water was her, for her huge mistakes and for all of them she really had to stay in that maze and that's it, the safety of the people she meets, The self-banishment that was created is precisely to avoid repeating those mistakes and the biggest mistake according to what he thinks is precisely to allow her to leave that place, the child could instead go out and change the fate of everything, He hoped that he would grow up in a more normal and calm life.
The only thing he really had to do after the baby was in a safe place was how all the members of his species commit suicide so his mistakes would be unrepeated, If another mistake was made this time, she wouldn't be the one to make it, and she just hoped that someone else could make up for those mistakes she made.
That evening when Xilel opened her eyes the ancient lady was ready, Xilel observed the structure amazed as Emeroth began to talk about the enigma of the structure.
- there are several floors, on each floor there is an enigma the only way to access the other floors and through a parallel world to our where life does not exist and everything is motionless and timeless, they live there what in us called soul - said the woman as the child listened astonished by those prophetic words - Once you've chosen the plan to solve the puzzle you just have to go back to the material world and be able to solve it, you'll find a clay tablet with letters, some are puzzles, some are questions, but they all have one or more answers and are used to give energy to unlock the platform on which we are walking over- finished explaining.
