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margus20000 -> (Pre-DF) Blood streams on the streets (1/14/2012 8:40:56)
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Blood streams on the streets
I have had idea for this story very long time already...Now it's time to write it down :D:D:D
Discussion
Note: My mother tongue isn't English...
PROLOGUE
20 years before the born of Lore's savior, great dragonlord...
..at midnight in old, shabby and muddy Falconreach, wind was howling and wooden houses around me were creaking from it. Only a few people who still weren't in bed were outside, shivering in the winter winds. Me, the poor merchant who recently came back from South and hadn't found any vacant rooms in a small decaying inn, where I would have liked to stay at night, Frida the young pet shop owner who talked to almost everyone about her dream of having many children and grandchildren and who was out at night-time, searching from bushes for a recently opened shop that sold a new species of pets...I think pointlessly..,and the moglin Twilly who liked to sleep on his precious stump even durning harsh winter and they were all cursing about the cold winter weather and hoping for better days with warmer wind and sunnier days in future. But what we didn't knew at the time, was that these winds brought not only cold but also a war, bloodiest war in Falconreach and whole Lore's history. Our childish dream of better weather and sunnier days proofed us the childishness of it very very soon...
Turning that cold night someone came to our hometown, someone strange and foreign on a road from capital StoneFang. Guy with hooded cloak on his shoulders and rusty muddy old knights armor defending his hunger-worn and way-worn scraggy body. After entering to town he came forthrightly toward me. He watched me as he walked with blear-eyed vision as he was recognizing something in me. Had I seen him before? Even if I had, his scrawny face with mud-brown hair covering his eyes didn't seem familiar to me. Maybe I knew him before some kind a downfall, that ruined him and wiped out his previous gallant and brave characteristics. But suddenly it hit me.. It was no one else than previous king's guardians' leader Alteon, brave and young man. But what happened with him? Why isn't he defending his king? At the time when I was still reasoning over my question he had already got to me and started to speak with me.
"...and so I started to come to you. At first I searched you..."
"Wait...what??" said I, who didn't had heard his first part of speech.. I heard but very briefly..
"From start I saw that you were strangely dreamy..."said Alteon, who was little bit blue because of pointlessly speaking to me, who had previously been in head-in-the-clouds state..."Anyway as I said before I came here because I quit from king Slugwrath's defending position. I started to dislike him because he started to act sadistically. He ordered beating of innocent people, whose only crime was not bowing to him, when he passed crowed turning last ruler's birthday celebrations. He also lopped off arms and legs from neighboring king, who opposed him, when he wanted to occupy that country by brutal force. I said that I didn't become a knight and guardian of king for seeing brutal people murders and sadistic tortures. He didn't say anything against it to me face-to-face, but I fear he plans to kill or even torture me for this deed. I wasn't the first one...Tom, who also left from guardian position, has strangely disappeared. No one has seen him after quitting from his position. I fear the worst and I fear the same will happen to me too. So I ran off from capital in hope to find more time to live as a free man with hands and legs strongly attached to my body.... At first I didn't know where to go, but then I remembered you, my good friend from the past. That's why I came to you... At first I searched you in Moonridge, where you were last time, but there I heard that you had already left. But then I remembered that you talked about some old wooden shabby town with very few houses, that hardly stay up very against the strong northern shore winds. The town where you were born(?). The town was called Raven... Eaglereach or something like that...Anyway I found my way to here and here you are..But why are you on streets?? What happened with your parents' house??..."
"I left from last town some time ago"..I started to answer to Alteon's questions.. "After I had reached back to my home town I heard that my parents died in house burn, what was caused by strange Elementals behavior, who usually don't come to settlements.. So I decided to find another place, where to spend my night. But when I wanted to stay in inn, then to my surprise innkeeper said that all rooms are taken.. All rooms taken in this remote area to where hardly anyone would like to journey?? Strange... But I didn't started to fight over shabby room in old fusty inn... That's why I am spending the night on the streets. It isn't so bad as you might think so... If you want you can stay with me on the streets at night. We both can ask some question about eachother, because we haven't seen each other in ages..."
"Good Idea, I will probably stay with you then. When you can't even find a place to stay in your own hometown, then how am I as a stranger supposed to find one? .."
Friends, who hadn't seen each other in a long time talked all-night-long. Alteon spoke about his heroic deeds and harsh journey to me. I envied him because for the bravery he showed on his interesting adventures. I spoke about not so interesting economy problems and about me having hard time to find clients for my merchandises. But at the same time, when we were distracted by our dialog, someone was lurking in Falconreach. Someone sneaky and deadly. But we didn't know about it at the time. We only heard time-to-time branches cracking and rustle from bushes near of us. We thought that it was only wind. But it wasn't. It was a farewell gift from our beloved king, Slugwrath....
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