My head was pounding and the last thing I remember was having drinks
with my
lovely other half Servina. My eyes felt like they were covered in
syrup I was unable to open them I began to panic and thrash about feeling a
crushing weight pressing down on my body. Soon with my frantic efforts I
began to break free as things began to tumble off my body a carrion stench
assailed my nose and I wretched while finally breaking free. My eyes slowly
stickily pulled apart and the site that greeted me almost drove my fraying
sanity over the edge. I was in a charnel pit, pieces of numerous cadavers and
full bodies both human and non-filled a large 10x20 hole in the ground. I
crawled as fast as I could out of the pit my body and mind felt disconnected
from each other. As I made the edge of the pit and stood and noticed my naked
body covered in large scars, blood covered me everywhere as far as I could
tell. Looking around I noticed I was outside the city in what could only be
one of the mass graves used for the poor. I began to walk back to the city
miles in the distance.
It slowly started to come back to me on the long
painful walk. I had come home from another outing with the Grey Ravens the
mercenary troop I was second command. I had made my way home to Servina my
love to let her know I had found the last piece to the puzzle that would
unlock the book and lead us to true wealth and power. Servina had welcomed me
warmly and we made love even though I was covered in road grime, after she
asked me to get cleaned up and she would go to the market to get dinner for
us. After a scrubbing, that left my body pink, I walked back in the house to
find a poured glass of brandy and a bottle with a note saying "soon my love".
I sat at the kitchen table enjoying the warm of the brandy as it rolled
around in my mouth just as I noticed the slight after taste and began to spit
it out my body seized up as I fell from the chair paralyzed.
Two pairs of feet walked in to where I could see on the kitchen floor,
one I immediately recognized as Servina the other was a pair of boots
polished with silver buckles. An angular face with a sneer upon it leaned
into my line of sight, “This is what you've had to spend your time with my
dear, so sorry you've had this pig mauling you". I heard other footsteps
approaching as I was lifted to my feet standing in front of me was Servina
the man with her I didn't recognize, two men also well dressed and groomed
held me up by both arms . Servina stepped forward and caressing my cheek with
her long nails she drove her other hand into my face and upper body
repeatedly while holding the puzzle piece, it left jagged cuts were ever it
landed. Screaming aloud that she was finally done with this charade as she
stepped back laughing the man said '"Thank you, but for touching your betters
we will enjoy this”. I was thrown backwards across the kitchen table, as the
man moved towards me with a wickedly carved knife, Servina laughing grabbed
it 'let’s start at his feet '. That's all I truly remember as the knife dug
in and my world erupted in a hell of white hot agony.
"Halt" I looked up at a young watchman as he swung the lantern around
in the darkness, his eyes becoming spheres of black as he saw me naked and
dripping gore. I quickly pounced and drove my hands into his throat silencing
him. Stripping him of his cloak and sword I made my way through the side gate
to the city toward my home with black thoughts in my head. Approaching where
my house used to be I was greeted by the smell of smoke as I rounded the
corner I could see what was left of the home I had shared with Servina for
well over a year, it was a burned down husk, ashes smoldering in the darkness.
"Terrible" I gave a start as an old small woman I hadn't seen spoke, "they
were such a nice couple, so sad they didn't make it out of the fire". I moved
on and hid myself in an alley way and watched the wreckage for a few hours,
as a light rain began to fall I moved forward and began to dig up the floor.
It only took me a few minutes before I found the silver I had been setting
aside in a hidden compartment for Servina's present. I began to walk out of
the ash and soot when once again the old woman surprised me "Revenge! you can
have it if you do something for me“, "Move", I growled as I made to push passed
her, she laid a small hand on me and every muscle froze. "I have need of you,
help me break the seal and I promise you revenge and power beyond your
wildest dreams “I should have said no, but I wanted to taste Servina and her
lovers blood. Her hand pulled away and I could move again, feeling the
overwhelming power coming from the woman I knelt "yes my queen".
Revenge hasn't been granted yet but I will turn over every rock and
look in every shadow until I find them. I will wear their entrails as a
necklace for what was done to me. Now I serve her and she will grant me these
things.