[RPG] [SL]Einar's Final Request Granted...

Wed Aug 16 13:23:42 CEST 2006

Eiyrn <eiryn at pcisys.net> wrote:           Eiyrn wrote:     kathleen stalnaker wrote:   <i>Hoshi entered the jail cell...alone.  She looked at Einar and then away...a million things going through her head...this was her husband...she loved him...and in minutes he would die by her hand...for she was trained well in the art of death...and she would not watch him suffer in deah as he had suffered in life...so this would be quick and for the most part painless...though no death is truly painless...she would not leave this to a man with an axe or a gallows...for those sorts of deaths were as much about the pain they caused as the death they caused.  She approached Einar and touched his face and leaned in and kissed him softly on the lips and whispered in his ear...</i>"You will always be in my heart...May the gods wrap you in their arms and travel with you in beauty as you begin a new journey..."

 <i>A few swift motions and Hoshi's blade found it's mark...piercing Eianr's flesh...opening an artery in his leg...she slid to the ground with him and held him close as his life slipped quickly away...she held him and whispered...</i>"I have granted you your final wish...in death may you find your peace Einar."
      His mouth tried to form words they refused to make... he was not sure what it was he was trying to say anyways.  A bright light opened to him and he was held and cradled walking into with Hoshi by his side.  Maybe that was his sister, friend, confidant, soul mate that was beside him now... before it all went wrong, before it all went bad.

 In the light was 3 men, each pertained at one time or another that they were his father.  They fought, they argued, they accused each other... and they did so over him.  As they did so he seemed to get smaller and smaller in their presence.  He couldn't understand them but it made him feel like he was less and less.  It seemed the after life was to be as demeaning as the life he just left.  

 There was screaming behind him more that he couldn't understand like everyone was speaking a language he was not privy to.  He was grabbed roughly and pulled violently away from his startled three fathers.  He was placed on a gradual cover with... not blanket, a blanket would never make him feel this soft and warm...

 He tried to laugh facetiously at the fact that he was being rescued from his Patron aboard the symbol of his Patron... but again the sound would not come and his lips moved noiselessly.  Soft whispering in his ear calmed him even as he felt his legs being bound... maybe it was not going to be so bad after all...
     They seemed to come from nowhere.  Hoshi knew immediately who they were and knew they must have a way to bypass the only entrance that was supposed to be to the dungeons.  They came enforce and carried graduals... pole ladders and immediately started lashing two of them opposite of each other.  Making a litter she already knew from her studies of the monks during her days at Akesh Temple, studying... 

 One held a finger to his lips warning Hoshi against crying out the alarm.  These were amongst the most skilled close quarters fighters in the world.  They carried little, if any weaponry and had need of none.  They were quick, focused and incorruptible.  and they were apparently here for Einar...
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http://news.battlemaster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpgHoshi made no sound...it was indeed clear they were there for Einar...it was also clear they knew little of the world around them so focused were they on their task...so foolish were they to think their skill rivaled hers in close quarter fighting...her additional girth was a bit of hinderance to her these days...but it was a hinderance to also those who tried to get to close to her.

Hoshi stood back and watched as they continued their work...when she finally spoke it was softly...and it was to Forsetti her patron...

"Hear me my god and my guide...and release Einar from the bonds that bind him tightly to this earth...give his spirit the strength to travel to be with the gods...take him from the hands of those who might seek to send him further into suffering..."

She continued to Rig..."Oh mighty Rig you are Einar's patron...his guide take him home to you that he may find solace in your care."

With that Hoshi blended further into the shadows for if Hoshi chose not to be seen none could see her...not even the gods.

"Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

from Sabriel by Garth Nix

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