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

[Eiyrn]

Kathleen stalnaker wrote:
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> */Eiyrn <eiryn at pcisys.net>/* wrote:
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>     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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> Hoshi 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.
/Suddenly his blanket, his warmth was gone.  Einar rose feeling unsafe.  
His protection was gone.  His protection against... against what?  He 
questioned only briefly as awareness crept into him.  'My fathers!' he 
sneered contempt for the Deity and two spirits that claimed to have 
raised him, as they planned his hell and future torment.  they had 
tormented him enough on the mortal plane, much like his... and even now 
he couldn't say it.  He couldn't at long last bear ill will towards.

Einar thought his confusion was returning as he was flanked by Akesh 
Monks smiling encouragingly at him... but he could see that they were 
not monks at all.  They might have been at one time, but that time was 
long past.  'You will have to fly,' the voice echoed inside of Einar, 
more emotion than speech.  Einar looked confused and opened his mouth to 
question.  The monk simply put a finger to his lips in warning.  Of all 
the lessons Einar never learned, he had learned one whilst at the 
Temple.  Never question the wisdom of a monk.

He heard Hoshi's cry for intervention from Forsetti and Rig the 
Deceiver.  He fumed but only briefly, Forsetti would not make it to 
mediate... Skadi the always willing accomplice of the Deceiver throw up 
a mountain range of obsidian to block Justice from his approach.  Rig 
shouted commands at Einar, belittling him with every word, tenor, and 
influx of his voice quickly looking to gain control over his errant "son".

The monk watched Einar with interest, wondering if he would meekly grow 
small once more follow another will once more... follow his "fathers" 
into his hell were he would spend his eternity in pain and 
degradation... for the briefest moment it looked like he might as he 
wavered against Rig's onslaught and looked dubiously as his other 
fathers came to Rig's support.

Einar then raged and grew, belittling his Patron and fathers.  "Nei!" He 
screamed at the trio.  "The seam!"  Light emanated from him and burst 
out from his spirit, sweeping away patrons, mountains, and deities of 
various allegiances.  Leaving Einar, the monk, and Hoshi... his konen in 
the open the emptiness.

"Usann kvinne hvem svikte," He spoke to her, "You can not hid from me.  
This is the last..." Einar paused, the emotion came back to him 'you can 
not stay, it is not safe, they will be back'.  His eyes smoldered with 
fire when he looked at her again, "You know where to find me if you are 
true.  If not I will will find you."

With that Einar was gone and the monk, the pleasant smile never leaving 
his face faded from the world Einar's righteous rage tore asunder.

---

/"Why does she do it?" A ghostly voice asked in the dungeon.

"She has made things go array again." Another seemed to accuse.

"She lives for the confrontation." the last said without emotion as all 
but one of the Monks seemed to seep through the walls and were gone.

"Do you want him?" The monk asked a little surprised.  "You never did 
when he was alive, and even now you can not embrace him.  Do you want 
this?" The monk Gestured to the body that was still barely alive and in 
her arms.  "Because you drove him out, you can get him back but you have 
to be quick... you have to commit... do you want him?" The monks voice 
seem to resonate inside her instead of actually being heard.
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