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Shabazik — Assaulted by Memories
Published: 2011-05-26 14:05:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 11279; Favourites: 54; Downloads: 381
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It seemed, he wasn't the only one with the idea of staying awake to do the watch...
but the drow woman falled asleep in the armchair, with a broomstick falling from her hands... and so, between the sleeping drows and his sword, there was nothing but a blanket...
And he doubted.
He become an hermit, wanting to search for his interior calm, leave his impulses, and find knowledge... he renounced to his prejudgements and the ones of his kind, and he sweared to renounce vengance. He made an oath...
but they where drows.
Is not that he had a prejudgement, that all the drows are twisted, evil and treacherous monsters... he do have personal experience with them...
memories he doesn't want to remember...
three years with no sun, no wind, and no hope, in the underworld of Kazrrad... and of them, half of that time he was in a drow dungeon...
It will be anything but justice, if he swinged his sword.
He made an oath.
What kind of justice is the one who fall over the heads of the innocent?
They are drows: No drow is innocent!!
They are just three girls sleeping...
Three women. Three drow women, the worse of their kind.
Even their children aren't innocent.
He still remember the girl who killed her daughter. She was just a girl.
It was their society, not their fault.
They are drow, is their fault! They builded their society!
they have done nothing to him.
They killed his daughter.
She was around their age...
the girl who killed her daughter must be around of the same age than her as well by now...
she was a nice girl.
They killed her daughter.
He had a daughter of their same age.
A drow daughter.
Could it be, one of them is her daughter?
the mother was a monster.
They are drow. They are monsters.
They are three girls you saved from death in a swamp. What kind of elf do you think you are?
You can't give life, so don't bring death.
They are drows.
They are girls.
They are Negeémi drows.
They aren't Acolytes of Negeé.
What if they are?
They didn't killed your daughter.
They could be your daughter...
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Comments: 58
The story here is very well written! It's intense!
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Wow, your stuff is starting to get deep. I've only read some stories here and there sporadically, but I'm starting to like these characters.
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Thanks! X3 I'm glad you like them!
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for some strange reason, it doesn't show the thumb of the next image -the mini-image-
the code is writed there in my edit butto, but is "invisible" in the description... Don't know why. But for now, I added the link to the next images. :3
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Hum me pregunto si tras pasar estas experiencias, sus puntos de vista han cambiado mucho.
Tal vez en unas cuantas décadas (o siglos) ellas alcancen puestos de poder dentro de la ciudad y traten de cambiar las cosas un poco.
Interesante, interesante
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seguramente han cambiado de alguna manera. :3
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Hey! You have already saved them. Was it a mistake or not - only the time will show... Now you have no way back. If you can't sleep - go to your smithy. If your hands are itching - go and scratch them! Don't touch the girls! In the worst case, treat them as prisoners of war. In the best case... try to find if they can be grateful. I'm sure they can!
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And now Quilintha fell asleep on guard... Another fault, and as we clearly see, this fault is rather serious!
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She fall asleep: other fault, but her friends could have helped her in that, rather that sleep so deeply in such a soft bed after so long time with no beds, but hard ground and filthy blankets from the orcs, few days of pillows in a cart, and most of they slave time, in the dirt, chained under the carts! 
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Very true. And, by the way, totally realistically could happen that in this unexpected comfort they will not only lose their vigilance, but also will temporarily become limp.
People who were at the war told such stories - they spent weeks in cold trenches, under the rain or snow, with only a short time to sleep, always alarmed, and every moment ready to fight - and they were OK. But when they were removed from the front and housed in relatively safe and comfortable villages - they all became weak and ill.
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yeah, is like your body give you the bill of everything you make him do, once it knows it isn't threatening to his own existence! XD
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What is it with those three and getting into trouble?
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oh, don't worry, see in the next pic and nothing was wrong in the end X3
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That picture wasn't up when I commented x'D
That's sweet c:
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This is the first time I seen you do shading. You should do more of it.
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oh, is messy and is to easy to do it wrong and destroy the previos work if done wrong!
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Beautiful lighting!! Very well done man! Very well done!
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Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!
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.....whoa, thats some deep shit right there... yay internal dilemma!
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I hope he makes up his mind to "innocent until proven guilty". Even if they did their share of crimes (I don't remember their story well) they should given their chance of reform.
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Well, they where acolyes, drow soldiers of Negeémiliel... and in their work, they fighted in wars and killed and captured enemies
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Omg! This is good F%#@ing interesting! Must know more!
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You brilliant story teller you!
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Oh yes! Great use of the slanting lines for the shadows in the room! A great deal tension is created of the light from the window and dark shadows, the sleeping, peaceful girls, and the rigid stance of the man! It is probably a great idea to keep his face unseen and unknowable as he wrestles with himself when no one can see him!
On a lighter note -- I would hope to have thick arms and a relatively narrow waist like the White Hermit when I am elderly!
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Many thanks!
and also: XD I think everybody want so!
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The White Hermit may well have a great deal more anger than we might ever see. He may well be an enlightened individual, but his sacrificed daughter was probably the product of the happiest time of his life! It would be almost unimaginable to kill folks that he spent hours in saving and have tracked dirt into his house! It was a LOT of mud! Seriously, with that much of an investment in saving them, he will not be in a hurry to kill them without hearing their story first. Hearing that story might well get him even more involved with them--perhaps he is aware of that and THAT is what is prompting him to consider ending them?
On a larger sense though, not only has he already invested himself by saving them from that mud--there is all the way they have come. I suppose he could think that the universe is "rewarding" him by giving him drow to kill--bringing some straight to him! More likely, I would expect the White Hermit would expect a gift rather more profound--that he would find it rather wasteful for them to have come all this way only to die now?
Of course, he doesn't realize that they are acolytes--they might be--probably would be, simple commoners fallen into debt, or political criminals enslaved and exiled? He might well feel a resurgence of anger at finding that they are acolytes! I might also think that he might think: "How did acolytes do so badly to have fallen so far and so far away from Negeemiliel?"
As acolytes, they are much more guilty! But they are all the more likely to be his daughter -- or know of his daughter. They are not, but it is not impossible that Laeh'le might have been among them! (unlikely though--Laeh'le would never have knowingly done anything wrong! XD)! But they do know of his daughter well--they were bullies who had tormented her in the academy!!! Maybe the Universal Justice DID bring them to the White Hermit to die! LoL !
If nothing else, it might be another lesson for the drow trio to learn about connectivity, and how nice it would have been to have been to be Leah'le's friends!
"Ah yes! Dahl'Arak has a daughter just a bit younger than we are in our company! By Negee--what a dweeb she is! We hazed her mercilessly!" -- entirely possible to say! Especially if the girls know that Dahl'Arak is the White Hermit's enemy -- and don't know that Laeh'le is his daughter! Well, there is something to be said that if someone doesn't like something--they must know something about it! People have been hired to do jobs that they've said right in a job interview that they hated!
"What? I said I hated to do that!"
"Right. You also made it clear that you knew something about it! That's what we need right now! Welcome onboard!"
That means that he can learn from the drow trio about Laeh'le. He might even keep the relationship a secret for a time so they will tell him everything they know about her! Unflattering though it might be! Laeh'le being a lousy acolyte but one that means well could warm the old man's heart! He might also hope to use the drow trio to get a message to her? Laeh'le might well need help from the White Hermit or the drow trio if General Dahl'Arak loses her head or otherwise her life in the change of government or in acting as "Julia Ceasar"?
I wonder how the White Hermit knows of Xuunera(?) Lo'Kee? He came years after her sacrifice didn't he? Of course, there might well be a series of plaques on the walls of the academy or Temple of Doom with the names of the initiates selected to perform a sacrifice each year? Oh yes--Xuunera Lo'Kee is the captain of these three girls! Discerning the truth in one's heart is not an easy task, Capt. Lo'Kee looks every inch the typical and successful--and even cruel--acolyte officer. That she is something else as well is something that is harder to see.
Coming to Negeemiliel for revenge against those who sacrificed his daughter--the White Hermit was probably taken aback that that meant he would be killing a child? He would not have seen that that child performed that sacrifice only with great reluctance and pain--if she even TRULY was the one to plunge that knife. Perhaps he went after Dahl'Arak and the Sorceress as they were much more guilty? Maybe the drowning deaths of those initiates changed his mind about going after young Lo'Kee?
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...and now this wonderful post have been almost all answered in my stories!
X3
Oh, the drow trio! If they ever reach the theme of Laeh'le Dahl'Arak, or them being acolytes, it could possibly bring problem to them
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The story has been a wild ride!
The line from Billie-Bonce's story of the White Hermit/Quilintha of:
"Who killed your daughter!?"
"--Drow killed her."
These lines ought to be used! Besides, the drow trio have captered traders as slaves and sacrifices before! Milvais going out of her way to jeer a captive.
I'm glad that you liked the post! XD
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the hardest battles are with ourselves.
very nice pic, the text adds depth to the picture.
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WOW! A moral dilemma has begun. Nice. Can't wait to see if they survive, or if vengeance is wreaked upon them.
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Aha! So Laeh'le IS the daughter of the White Hermit!!! As she is the only daughter of Dahl'arak close to the age of the trio. I like how he has this internal conflict, I have internal conflicts like this all the time, but go for the righteous path usually. Usually they aren't life or death, but yeah.
And wow... Milvais looks SO DIFFERENT here, maybe it's because she's sleeping peacefully and cutely, rather than sleeping WITH somebody lol. XD
And I love how Quilintha is sleeping holding the broom, shows she's still the most prepared of the three, but she definantly isn't sleeping lightly like she lightly planned, being too exhausted from the near death experience or ordeal, she's definantly outta it completely.
Hopefully everything works out between the hermit and them, but he has taken a righteous path all this time, I doubt his resolve would allow him to walk off that path so easily.
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Yes she is (it's confirmed in other deviation as well now :3)
And Milvais DO look so peaceful there! :3
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Holy innocence. Is they still remember that they are drow assasains, not damsels in districts?
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