| *I gaze upon the rising orb and grin*
Wonderful! My soulmate SD has returned, as I knew she would, as LL said she would. She has been coy about her absence, but that does not matter, she will tell me in time. But something disturbs her, I can sense it; something drastic happened to cause her to go without a word. For the meantime however, all that matters is she is back. I told her briefly of what had gone on while she was away and we began to lay further plans. Somehow we must get that book from the Duchy’s hands.
Unbelievable! Just as SD and I try to catch up on things, I am forced to spend a night in jail! We were tormenting a slave when I heard a racket outside. Not many are foolish enough to wander onto our property without permission so I looked out to investigate. There stood some half-breed mongrel in a Duchy uniform shouting the odds. “I’ve come to kill Drow” she screamed. SD and I looked at each other and smiled. I drew my sword and said to the fool that she was welcome to try. The guard went for me; it was a frenzied attack not the calculated assault one would expect from a true warrior. It was over in moments. SD and I were unscathed whilst she lay mortally wounded with several fatal cuts and high doze of poison from SD’s blade. Sadly she died too quickly and robbed us of decent fun. All that remained was to wonder why the Duchy sent one of there guards to kill me.
I loaded the body onto a horse and headed to Trinsic alone. There was no need for SD to become involved. I needed to find answers to this unprovoked attack. Of course they saw things differently and accused me of murdering a guard. So a night was passed in the cells. Well at least they sent me a lawyer. *laughs* We discussed what happened and he assured me he could get me off. I am convinced that this was a set up by the Duchy, but on reflection handing over the body to them was a mistake. I was not going to get my answer that way.
The next day the lawyer returned and we built up a solid case for my defence. Then something strange happened. The fools had lost the body! Seems during the night it got up and walked. How careless of them! No body, no crime, they could hold me no longer. So now they are convinced that the guard was not dead and is now wandering around lost in a daze. Poor fools! I can tell them exactly what happened. One of my followers sneaked into the healers in the dead of night and drugged those on duty and made it look like some miraculous recovery. After all one of my priestesses would have no difficulty in animating a corpse. Later the body would have been disposed of properly, which is what I should have done in the first place.
I got back to find the slave had taken advantage of the previous days commotion and escaped. No matter she will be easily found. And when she does, oh how she’ll suffer!
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!!!! |