Lore:The Once-Shipstealer: Difference between revisions
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==III. The Traitor== | ==III. The Traitor== | ||
On the day of the prison break, Eramis is nursing a gut wound. | On the day of the [[Last Call|prison break]], Eramis is nursing a gut wound. | ||
It's not fatal, or at least she doesn't think so. She won the match in the arena, but not before an arrogant Captain drove a Sword into her side. It cut through her Devil robes and left a bloom of blood that reminds her of the water flowers on Riis. Athrys loved water flowers. | It's not fatal, or at least she doesn't think so. She won the match in the arena, but not before an arrogant [[Captain]] drove a Sword into her side. It cut through her Devil robes and left a bloom of blood that reminds her of the water flowers on [[Riis]]. [[Athrys]] loved water flowers. | ||
She's dozing when Variks arrives at her cell. | She's dozing when [[Variks, the Loyal|Variks]] arrives at her cell. | ||
"Eramis." | "Eramis." | ||
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"No," Variks cringes. "Variks wishes—" | "No," Variks cringes. "Variks wishes—" | ||
"I do not care what you wish, Variks the 'loyal'," she says. There are Eliksni who change in the shadow of prison bars. They fall. They shrink. But Eramis has grown. She must show Variks that even with this steel between them, he is smaller. He is still a Dreg pretending to be a vandal. "If there is justice in this world, one day, I will dock your last two arms and leave you for dead." | "I do not care what you wish, Variks the 'loyal'," she says. There are Eliksni who change in the shadow of prison bars. They fall. They shrink. But Eramis has grown. She must show Variks that even with this steel between them, he is smaller. He is still a Dreg pretending to be a [[Vandal|vandal]]. "If there is justice in this world, one day, I will dock your last two arms and leave you for dead." | ||
Something in Variks's eyes hardens. They share a tense silence. Finally, he says, in a voice as cold as Ether, "Do not say that Variks did not try to help." | Something in Variks's eyes hardens. They share a tense silence. Finally, he says, in a voice as cold as Ether, "Do not say that Variks did not try to help." | ||