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Mon 10th Aug 2020 09:54

Death

by Daar Yarjerit

This... this must have been a nightmare. I was asleep and got woken up by Jay's scream. She was attacked by rats- well, no. Glowy rats. With brains luminous and visible.
 
It all happened so fast. They... turned. Jay, and Drogo, I saw their faces go neutral. I was still so chocked, so surprised from Jay's shouting at the rats' bites. I had no rats under me, but they were crawling under everybody else. My friends...
 
And the pain came. I was still stiff from the previous fight, but nothing major. Drogo's fury eyes... I had seen them, but never that clearly coming at me. Jay was also preparing her attack onto me, her lightning blade out, her body turned towards mine and ready to hurt. I wanted to act, to bring them back to themselves, but i was still paralized, too sleepy to act. I'm so useless! i just need to deflect their blows, and... Drogo managed to hit me first. The searing pain. I couldn't even scream nor gasp. I was lying there. And Drogo's fury eyes were intent on me. The last blow i don't even remember completely. I just... stopped feeling. Darkness took over. It must have been a dream. A particularly bad nightmare. Two of my friends. My dear friends. Did i turn evil? Did they need to stop me?
 
I guess i need to continue, to go forward. This darkness seems to be calling me somewhere...
 
***a tug***
 
***a pull***
 
***coughs***
 
Sir Azaki praying upon me. Roshanna and him healing me, their energies slowly making this pain tolerable. Slowly giving me the ability to feel something else than pain. I see her leave, I see my friend's faces so... sad? White? It was real. I must have died. I bring them all to me in a big hug, and like Sir Azaki, i pray. Thank you, Corellon, for helping Azaki catch my soul and bring me back into this body. Into me. Thank you Ogma, for letting me serve you a bit longer. Thank you Bahamut, for helping us save more than ourselves. Thank you my friends, for saving me. I look a bit over their shoulders after this prayer. No signs of rats.
 
After a while I let go. I clean the blood away, magically. My friends don't need this reminder. They were charmed, obviously. (were they? those fury eyes... calm down, Daar). And I prepare something. It might not work, but i have to try. I play the counterspell tune, the best way i can, into this little stone. Bengil Daycurl through his friend, the efrite Heraniz, lent me some new powers, and this stone will repeat my song all night if need be. Maybe that will help my friends if the rats return.
 
Are the rats around? And they were also some tentacles, i see them now. Limp out of the walls. The fight must have been fierce while I was ... dead. i was dead.
 
***Daar tries to sleep, can't, and turns around. Looking at her chest, she sees the scar left by her friends' blows. She sees the big, huge axe marks accross her chest, and the many small lgihtning lines of thunder forming this scar. It is mostly healed now, but this was clearly not a pattern that was present before. She tries to sleep again, and turns a bit away from Jay and Drogo in her sleep.***
 
Where is Roshanna? i think i need a hug.