Post by Elinea on Apr 15, 2008 20:34:18 GMT -7
And the story continues....... Someone please give Libelle a heads up ............
First Kaefir's side of it .............
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The Overlord was pacing in his office behind his desk. It had been two days since his captives had been taken to their respective trainers, and he had not had any updates on their progress. He had sent word via his advisor that he wanted the report as soon as possible. The time had come for him to know just how the training was progressing.
He stoppd pacing and looked up at the ceiling for a moment,
"Well?"
There was silence.
"I asked a question, I expect an answer. I want a report now!"
Again silence.
Then a voice from the dark, "My Lord..."
"It's time I heard from your people, or are they so incompetent that they forgot who to report to?"
"My Lord, our students have been a challenge. They did not wish you to be overly concerned yet about their progress. It will take some time and great amounts of work to reorient their thinking process first."
"So what you are saying is that they are being difficult. Do you want ME to help their training along?"
"My Lord, that is not necessary. The trainers are very capable.
Our young students are, shall we say,doing their very best to be disruptive and uncooperative."
The voice contiued, "Our young Feir'Dal's sense of humor is most trying, and our young wizard is ........" Her voice trailed of to silence.
"Is what?"
"My Lord, she has decided to put herself on a hunger strike, she refuses to eat."
"Then make her eat. Force feed her."
"She is very stubborn, my Lord. Hetae is working with the other trainers to comply with your wishes of keeping her spirit, but also retraining her. She is a challenge without the option of using force to break her spirit and build a new mentality."
"Don't make her one of Hetae's pets. I want her to keep her independent spirit and sense of self. She is NOT to be an 'extension' of him. Let him know that."
"I'll tell him my Lord."
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Kaefir sat with her legs folded under her in one corner of her 'room'. Nothing much more than a stone cell with a cot for a bed and a small table for eating was there for her comfort.
She sat in total silence with her eyes closed, waiting for her trainers to return for another sesson of 'intructions' as they called them. So far her sense of humor and laughter had kept them confused, but in her heart she didn't know how long she could keep them this way. She was afraid they would eventually find a way to deal with it and crack her will.
She heard her cell door quietly open and looked up. A young Teir'Dal in inquisitor apprentice robes stood in front of her with her food. She stood and looked at Kaefir for a moment, and then put the food on the table.
"My name is Libelle. I brought you your nurishment. I would eat it, the trainers will be back from their rest shortly."
She turned to leave and then stopped and turned back around,
"Why are you being this way? "
"What 'way' ?"
"Why are you being uncooperative and giving the Masters such a hard time?"
"I don't wish to be an inquisitor. My mother was a druid, she would want me to be a templar, if not a druid."
"Is your mother here now to tell you this?"
Kaefir sighed and looked at the young inquisitor, "My mother died on the night of The Shattering. She would have wished me to follow my family's path and not the ways of the Teir'Dal."
The othr girl was thoughtful for a moment, "Would she also wish you to live?"
"What do you mean?"
"If the Masters are not happy with your progress, they will report it to The Overlord. You are considered 'expendable', unlike your friend over at the Academy."
"I've said it many times before, I'll never be an inquisitor."
The young inquisitor bowed her head and turned to go, but then again stopped and turned, "I know something about the Temple of War, no one else knows, not even the Masters. Would you like to know a way to escape the Temple and get out of Freeport safely?"
"You know such a thing?"
She smiled and nodded, "I know many things the Masters do not know I know. Sometimes it is best to keep your thoughts to yourself."
"You would show me the way out? Why?"
"Living is always better than dieing. I'll come back and show you after the Masters have finished and gone to rest for the night. I have cleaning duties to finish and they won't be alarmed if I'm up and busy in the Temple. Stay awake and I'll come and show you."
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The darkness had settled in around Kaefir once more and the silence with it. She was tired and her mind was just about unable to cope with the stress of her training. The Masters had left for the night and she was now feeling the effects of a particularly intense lesson session. They had been gone for about an hour, and she was begining to close her eyes as she lay on the cot. Something shook her violently. The first thing in her mind was that they had come back for more training. She jerked up and sat straight up on the cot.
"I thought I told you to stay awake, foolish Feir'Dal."
"I'm awake now."
"Then come. And be quiet."
Kaefir was lead down countless stairways she would never have been able to navigate herself in the darkness of the Temple. She would have been hopelessly lost without her guide.
They finally came to a room that was used for storage and the young Teir'Dal took her to a wall at the far end of the room.
"Here it is."
"Where?"
She smiled and reached behind a barrel and pulled a small lever that was hidden there. The wall in front of them opened up to show an opening.
"Here. This is a tunnel that leads out to Dog Pond in the Commonlands. I explored it one day when the Masters were off on a campaign in the Feerott. I had a lot of time to be unwatched and unnoticed. It was probably used during the Rallosian War to escape, or perhaps built just in case there was ever a need to escape. It will take you as far as that, then you are on your own to get any further. It won't be easy........
Just remember to close the door behind you. Hopefully the Masters won't look for you too long, but close it well just in case."
Kaefir looked at the door for a moment and then shook her head, "I can't."
"You can't what?"
"I can't use it. I can't leave Elinea."
"I told you Feir'Dal, your friend will never be let go. This is your only chance of getting out of the city alive. If you do not become an inquisitor....... they will kill you."
"Then I'll die. Eli will understand. Or we'll BOTH find a way out."
"There IS no way out of Freeport! The Overlord has made sure no one escapes his city."
Libelle looked at Kaefir and shook her head in disbelief, "Very well, if that's the way you wish it, so be it. But this is far too dangerous for me to help you again. Once I close this door, it stays closed."
"Close it, Libelle."
She once again pulled the lever, and put an end to Kaefir's only way home.
They arrived back at Kaefir's 'room' in silence.
"I still don't understand you, Feir'Dal." As she said this, Libelle was hastilly writing something on a small piece of paper.
"You don't understand what it is to have a friend?"
"Teir'Dal do not have such things. The only loyalties we have are to family, and then only if it is consistant with our own personal sense of honor."
She handed Kaefir the paper, "Keep this hidden. Don't let anyone see this or you and I both will pay; me probably with my life. It has the map of the way out of the Temple to the Commonlands. There is also an outside entrance to the tunnel just outside the Temple that I found too. Just in case you change your mind."
"I won't change my mind. I'm not leaving without Elinea."
"Very well, as you wish. I have to leave or the Masters will wonder why I am taking so long with my chores."
She turned and started to leave. Kaefir looked at the map and spoke, "So Teir'Dal don't believe in friendship? What do you call this map?"
Libelle turned back around and stared at her for a moment, "It is not a map remember that, just a picture you drew from a childhood memory of your home. Remember that always."
She turned and left Kaefir alone in her cell.
First Kaefir's side of it .............
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The Overlord was pacing in his office behind his desk. It had been two days since his captives had been taken to their respective trainers, and he had not had any updates on their progress. He had sent word via his advisor that he wanted the report as soon as possible. The time had come for him to know just how the training was progressing.
He stoppd pacing and looked up at the ceiling for a moment,
"Well?"
There was silence.
"I asked a question, I expect an answer. I want a report now!"
Again silence.
Then a voice from the dark, "My Lord..."
"It's time I heard from your people, or are they so incompetent that they forgot who to report to?"
"My Lord, our students have been a challenge. They did not wish you to be overly concerned yet about their progress. It will take some time and great amounts of work to reorient their thinking process first."
"So what you are saying is that they are being difficult. Do you want ME to help their training along?"
"My Lord, that is not necessary. The trainers are very capable.
Our young students are, shall we say,doing their very best to be disruptive and uncooperative."
The voice contiued, "Our young Feir'Dal's sense of humor is most trying, and our young wizard is ........" Her voice trailed of to silence.
"Is what?"
"My Lord, she has decided to put herself on a hunger strike, she refuses to eat."
"Then make her eat. Force feed her."
"She is very stubborn, my Lord. Hetae is working with the other trainers to comply with your wishes of keeping her spirit, but also retraining her. She is a challenge without the option of using force to break her spirit and build a new mentality."
"Don't make her one of Hetae's pets. I want her to keep her independent spirit and sense of self. She is NOT to be an 'extension' of him. Let him know that."
"I'll tell him my Lord."
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Kaefir sat with her legs folded under her in one corner of her 'room'. Nothing much more than a stone cell with a cot for a bed and a small table for eating was there for her comfort.
She sat in total silence with her eyes closed, waiting for her trainers to return for another sesson of 'intructions' as they called them. So far her sense of humor and laughter had kept them confused, but in her heart she didn't know how long she could keep them this way. She was afraid they would eventually find a way to deal with it and crack her will.
She heard her cell door quietly open and looked up. A young Teir'Dal in inquisitor apprentice robes stood in front of her with her food. She stood and looked at Kaefir for a moment, and then put the food on the table.
"My name is Libelle. I brought you your nurishment. I would eat it, the trainers will be back from their rest shortly."
She turned to leave and then stopped and turned back around,
"Why are you being this way? "
"What 'way' ?"
"Why are you being uncooperative and giving the Masters such a hard time?"
"I don't wish to be an inquisitor. My mother was a druid, she would want me to be a templar, if not a druid."
"Is your mother here now to tell you this?"
Kaefir sighed and looked at the young inquisitor, "My mother died on the night of The Shattering. She would have wished me to follow my family's path and not the ways of the Teir'Dal."
The othr girl was thoughtful for a moment, "Would she also wish you to live?"
"What do you mean?"
"If the Masters are not happy with your progress, they will report it to The Overlord. You are considered 'expendable', unlike your friend over at the Academy."
"I've said it many times before, I'll never be an inquisitor."
The young inquisitor bowed her head and turned to go, but then again stopped and turned, "I know something about the Temple of War, no one else knows, not even the Masters. Would you like to know a way to escape the Temple and get out of Freeport safely?"
"You know such a thing?"
She smiled and nodded, "I know many things the Masters do not know I know. Sometimes it is best to keep your thoughts to yourself."
"You would show me the way out? Why?"
"Living is always better than dieing. I'll come back and show you after the Masters have finished and gone to rest for the night. I have cleaning duties to finish and they won't be alarmed if I'm up and busy in the Temple. Stay awake and I'll come and show you."
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The darkness had settled in around Kaefir once more and the silence with it. She was tired and her mind was just about unable to cope with the stress of her training. The Masters had left for the night and she was now feeling the effects of a particularly intense lesson session. They had been gone for about an hour, and she was begining to close her eyes as she lay on the cot. Something shook her violently. The first thing in her mind was that they had come back for more training. She jerked up and sat straight up on the cot.
"I thought I told you to stay awake, foolish Feir'Dal."
"I'm awake now."
"Then come. And be quiet."
Kaefir was lead down countless stairways she would never have been able to navigate herself in the darkness of the Temple. She would have been hopelessly lost without her guide.
They finally came to a room that was used for storage and the young Teir'Dal took her to a wall at the far end of the room.
"Here it is."
"Where?"
She smiled and reached behind a barrel and pulled a small lever that was hidden there. The wall in front of them opened up to show an opening.
"Here. This is a tunnel that leads out to Dog Pond in the Commonlands. I explored it one day when the Masters were off on a campaign in the Feerott. I had a lot of time to be unwatched and unnoticed. It was probably used during the Rallosian War to escape, or perhaps built just in case there was ever a need to escape. It will take you as far as that, then you are on your own to get any further. It won't be easy........
Just remember to close the door behind you. Hopefully the Masters won't look for you too long, but close it well just in case."
Kaefir looked at the door for a moment and then shook her head, "I can't."
"You can't what?"
"I can't use it. I can't leave Elinea."
"I told you Feir'Dal, your friend will never be let go. This is your only chance of getting out of the city alive. If you do not become an inquisitor....... they will kill you."
"Then I'll die. Eli will understand. Or we'll BOTH find a way out."
"There IS no way out of Freeport! The Overlord has made sure no one escapes his city."
Libelle looked at Kaefir and shook her head in disbelief, "Very well, if that's the way you wish it, so be it. But this is far too dangerous for me to help you again. Once I close this door, it stays closed."
"Close it, Libelle."
She once again pulled the lever, and put an end to Kaefir's only way home.
They arrived back at Kaefir's 'room' in silence.
"I still don't understand you, Feir'Dal." As she said this, Libelle was hastilly writing something on a small piece of paper.
"You don't understand what it is to have a friend?"
"Teir'Dal do not have such things. The only loyalties we have are to family, and then only if it is consistant with our own personal sense of honor."
She handed Kaefir the paper, "Keep this hidden. Don't let anyone see this or you and I both will pay; me probably with my life. It has the map of the way out of the Temple to the Commonlands. There is also an outside entrance to the tunnel just outside the Temple that I found too. Just in case you change your mind."
"I won't change my mind. I'm not leaving without Elinea."
"Very well, as you wish. I have to leave or the Masters will wonder why I am taking so long with my chores."
She turned and started to leave. Kaefir looked at the map and spoke, "So Teir'Dal don't believe in friendship? What do you call this map?"
Libelle turned back around and stared at her for a moment, "It is not a map remember that, just a picture you drew from a childhood memory of your home. Remember that always."
She turned and left Kaefir alone in her cell.
