Most Bitter Terms
WAR comes to Kemena, part 2
The man strides angrily past the many guards of the sweltering compound into a burnt-red chamber of the fortress half as old as time. It is time for her to be given another dose but right now he needs her awake and at least partly able to talk. He lifts the slight body of the young woman in blue, growling into her face as her fugged mind and eyes try to focus on his mohawk.
I have something I need you to do woman.
Blinking and mumbling, the only clear words she gets out are Rel.
Oh, you're about to talk to him, my dear. He slaps her hard across the face. Dagger point under her chin to quell her struggles.
-sharp-
WAR comes to Kemena, part 1
Kemena sped to Keshatta.
She used the Swift Path, leaving behind family, Kyzafi and Zhorr as they slept exhausted after the long successful struggle against the bandit Atzel. As usual, the others had shielded her from the fighting as she prayed and healed, so now she was the only one of Command that was awake. The transition from frosty ice to gritty sand was unsettling but Invicta had been fighting for hours by the side of the Kings Guard in the heat here and as an officer it was up to her to quell her fears of night-haunted Stygia.
