Editing WS:Chapter Two (section)

=====We're off the see the wizard=====

Alden's castle was amazing.  The demons have extensively re-built and re-designed it, the grand tower higher still, the walls scalloped and more organic, doors and openings guarded with sphincters.  The few remaining gargoyles flew endlessly above the highest point of the castle.  The smell was fairly bad, all rotting meat and unidentifiable filth.  Occasionally the mouth watered a little as a particularly piquancy rolled over us.  Some of the others were starting to go a little green.

We entered through what I think used to be a sally port, and was now... anyway.  Inside, the walls were lined with resin and bodies, bodies disassembled only to be re-built in patterns and usages of bizarre alien mindset.  It took a couple of minutes until I realised that some of the body parts were still alive and, perhaps, functioning.  I saw a series of arteries, a bright warm web, still pulsing with blood forced through by a heart hidden somewhere.

It was actually very disquieting.  Killing humans is one thing, this was just wrong.

I thoroughly lost my bearings as we were lead through the remodelled building.  Eventually however, somewhere deep in the bowels of the castle, or possibly in diggings extending the original basements and dungeons we were let into a room containing the ... mechanism that would communicate with us.  It was a child, a young girl seated upon the floor with the back of her skull covered with some kind of bug.  One has to assume she would die without it, but still the urge to rescue even this human young was strong.

Basically the demons required some 800 tonnes of sentient bio-mass, in other words, human or elven or Kartaran bodies, preferably alive.  It offered weapons, magic and possibly other things for this, and guaranteed it would leave when the raw material was received and processed, presumably built into the castle.

...

We discussed some of the details with the girl, and then left to discuss the matter.

Some were in favour of feeding the incoming Bayern army to the beasts, others, Thodric, to shovelling Zylistani into this evil maw.  However, all these evil thoughts aside, it was eventually realised at a minimum, whether we were going to feed them to the castle, or use them to attack the castle, the Duke of Bayern's army would have to lie under the control of Thodric and Alden.

So, a little travel.