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As she faded, he shook his head ruefully. “Oh Murinada, you were supposed to tend to our wounds, but when you needed us... needed me... I failed you.” | As she faded, he shook his head ruefully. “Oh Murinada, you were supposed to tend to our wounds, but when you needed us... needed me... I failed you.” | ||
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| + | "I'll kill him myself." | ||
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| + | Kitaru rolled over in his bedroll. "He's just coping in the only way that he knows how. We're all feeling the strain." | ||
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| + | Li Jin shook the tent poles and shouted, "Shut up, you son of a whore!" | ||
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| + | "He's..." | ||
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| + | "I know what he's doing, and I don't care! This is the first chance we've had to sleep in a week!" | ||
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| + | "Have some compassion. After what he's been through, he should be strapped to a bed in the Retreat for the rest of his life. We all should." | ||
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| + | "I hate him." | ||
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| + | Outside the team's tent, in the driving rain, Cat-Eyed Dream screamed at the black sky. | ||
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Revision as of 22:03, 1 November 2006
7th Day of Ascending Fire: Journals of Li Jin
Arrived in Timberline at dusk, quickly found that the people were resistant to Kitaru’s teaching. Strong ancestor cults. Ghosts warned villagers of our coming; Arrested at nightfall by mayor and thugs.
In the jail cell, Cat-Eyed Dream told us that the mayor was a nemissary, to proceed with caution. Murinada suggested waiting till change of guards and facing him in private. Broke out at midnight, but mayor had escaped with his men. Not before torching the fields. And poisoning the well. We’ve sent a request for water elementals to purify well and grain for emergency relief and replanting. Haven’t slept in three days. Maybe tonight.
22nd Day of Ascending Fire: The Death of Murinada
“How could this happen?” Cat-Eyed Dream looked in horror at her still form. She remained as she had when she went to sleep at his side, only now her lips had grown pale blue, and her rosy cheeks had turned ashen. He called the sight of the unseen to his eyes. “Tell me, who killed you?”
Murinada leaned over her lover and ran her fingers through his hair; the immaterial form of her higher soul did not stir a single lock. “I was strangled while you slept, dear Dream, and I did not see him.”
“Gods, it’s too much for me to bear! Stay but a moment, and I will join you!” He lifted his head and whispered through taught lips to her vanishing form, seeing her wearing the kimono he had given her three days before they had left for the south. “Damn the cycle, and damn the mission!”
“Good bye, Dream, I promise you I’ll find you again, but not in this form...”
As she faded, he shook his head ruefully. “Oh Murinada, you were supposed to tend to our wounds, but when you needed us... needed me... I failed you.”
13th Day of Resplendent Fire: Just Another Night
"I'll kill him myself."
Kitaru rolled over in his bedroll. "He's just coping in the only way that he knows how. We're all feeling the strain."
Li Jin shook the tent poles and shouted, "Shut up, you son of a whore!"
"He's..."
"I know what he's doing, and I don't care! This is the first chance we've had to sleep in a week!"
"Have some compassion. After what he's been through, he should be strapped to a bed in the Retreat for the rest of his life. We all should."
"I hate him."
Outside the team's tent, in the driving rain, Cat-Eyed Dream screamed at the black sky.
