| I look up at the yellow orb, give it an obscene gesture and laugh and laugh?..and laugh.
Oh what a wonderful few days this has been. I needed a presence in the place called Jhelom. The first victim proved to be useless. I do not know what has become of her, G?s toy I supposed. I no longer care. No I have someone else now, someone more reliable. A sweet young girl and one that has connections. When I first met her we talked long about this and that, just to make her comfortable. I then invited her home, she came readily. It was here I began to seduce her. Oh she was reluctant, she kept stressing that she had her reputation to think about. *grins* Music to my ears. Eventually she relented, I could tell from her eyes, from the faint aroma she began to give out, that desire was beginning to overcome her. She gave herself to me completely and I took her higher than she had ever been before. Later she fell asleep in my arms, her face glowing with the pleasure she had just received. *smiles at the memory*
I met her and brought her home the next night. I told her we needed to have a little talk. Ah that faint whiff reaching my nostrils again. *chuckles* No not tonight little one. I told her I need an informant. She refused, she could not betray her friends, her family, her town. So we talked about reputation and then it dawned on her. The choice was simple, reputation or betrayal. I had read her like a book. She chose her reputation over loyalty. Pride over shame. *laughs without humour* I own her now!
The following night some of us took a trip to the yellow town. At the gate we were stopped by the stupid guard Iljian. The one who holds a vendetta against me, the one who cannot talk right, Moiraine?s pet lap dog. Seems there are warrants out against us signed by the half breed bitch. Despite pointing out to him that Trinsic law only applies to crimes committed in Trinsic, he is too dumb to grasp this concept. Moiraine has the idiot brainwashed. G was itching to end Iljian?s lispy mutterings once and for all, but two other guards turned up. Now was not the time, there were witnesses around. His time will come.
Later I met up with my tame guard Leisa. Jhulae and I reported to her what had happened to Jhulae at the hands of Jaraxle, Maylene and Veressis. She said she would seek warrants for their arrest. This, I knew she would do. But I also knew Moiraine would do nothing about it. Her family was involved and she is too corrupt and loyal to do anything about it. She along with Kalannar are hypocrites of the first order. She claims to uphold the law. She will hound me for supposed crimes, real or imagined, yet will turn a blind eye when those same crimes are committed by her family. *sneers* You hypocrite Moiraine. You have no right to sit in judgement of me. At least I have integrity, I treat everyone the same, but you? You are corrupt!
Later still we went back to town again when we knew it would be empty of guards. As we entered a surprise was there for me. Moiraine was just leaving. There was just one guard. Oh dear Lloth you are so good to me. *laughs* It was an opportunity too good to miss and we seized them both in quick time. No witnesses. I now have them both and nobody knows a thing about it. Just one small irritation, I have lost my tame guard. *shrugs* No matter.
*sighs* I have waited for this moment ever since the bitch started this vendetta against me. And now that I have her here before me, I feel empty. The thrill of the chase has been wonderful, but now? Now there is nothing left. I taunted her about writing a letter to the Duke, a pardon and an apology for me and my followers. She would also implicate herself and Kalannar in crimes against her own family. I knew she would not do it. Her eyes told me this. She refused. She refused even when I was preparing to blind her guard. This is nothing new. She was prepared to sacrifice a loyal guard once before. But something else. When we secured her to the whipping post, I also tied iron wire round her neck to the post. It was done in such a way that if she moved her head, she would begin to cut her throat. And this she did. She began cutting her own throat. Then she passed out. G removed the wire, I am not sure why. Maybe he felt it was too soon for her to die.
That told me much. Another example of how pride can ruin you. She was prepared to kill her self rather than do my bidding. She would commit suicide. She would take the cowards way out to avoid me. What kind of person is this that has no respect even for themselves? Even a lowly orc would never consider suicide as a way out. And there are no bigger cowards than them. Suicide! There is nothing so low as suicide! *snarls*
But wait. Maybe, just maybe she is deluded enough to think that suicide makes you a martyr! *laughs loudly* Oh very good Moiraine?.very very good. I will not let you be a martyr. Not this easily anyway. *ponders* No. Time to consider alternatives. I could sell you on, I know of others who would love to get theirs hands on you. I could hold you to ransom. Or I could let you rot in this place. Whatever I decide will be the one that suits me and only me. But one things for sure, I am going to haunt you for the rest of your miserable life, however long it lasts.
I watch, I assess, I report.
Vel'drav l' sil'in qu'ellar d'Hun?ett zotrethen??Jal zhal sha-rasa!!!
Lloth tlu laoles, dosst handmaiden orn naut hojh dos!!!! |