Just Deal With It

The Lady in White came by herself.  She didn't really need her army to assault the farm anyway, its not like we had built battlements or anything (which is partially my fault I'll admit but I know little of construction and even less so of actual battlements).  She glided to the front of the farm house, gods frequently don't walk  (I've heard the Fire God rides a river of fire to battle, but never personally seen that so its just rumor and bullshit as far as I know). We had been arguing all night about the stupidity of the deals the east had made with this creature, and her ears must have been burning, because the lilting tone from the front scared the shit out of me.

"Trezlan come out and lets," there was a pause as if she was considering every word extremely carefully, "Talk." Ruk and the rest looked at me in terror, I couldn't blame them, I was terrified myself. I made my way outside, I was unarmed aside from my magic (don't blame me all I had left were the empty pistols, and outside of the comic aspect of throwing them at her, they wouldn't do any good).

"What do you want?" I tried to sound defiant, but it came off a little desperate, like I was asking her more out of fear than anger (which to be truthful I was).

"For you to leave these lands, you are not one of mine, you can not stop me nor should you want to, these people brought this on themselves, when I'm done they'll go back to worshipping me a bit more fearful of my wrath than in the past, that is all."  It sounded good, but remember what I said in the past, NEVER MAKE A DEAL WITH A GOD!

"Don't really have a way out of here, my boat sank at sea."

"For a price I can return you to your lands,  I'll even do you a favor."

"What's the price?" I'll admit, despite my previous advice I was considering going against it, because I'm a hypocrite and liar.

"Kill those people in the farm house."

"Why?"

"One already made a deal with me and failed to honor his part, the other three are part of my original bargain with this land, they are all mine Trezlan you can do nothing to stop this." You know what pissses me off more than everything else that pisses me off? Being treated like I have no say in a matter I clearly do.

"Thanks, but I think I'll take my chances with these idiots I don't make deals with gods." I went to leave and felt her icey hand pluck me off my feet and hold me by the neck. I couldn't turn my head, but I didn't need to the tone of her voice was punishment enough I didn't have to see her face.

"You speck of inexistence if I will it you are gone, YOU ARE NOTHING TO ME YOU WILL DO AS I SAY!" Did I ever mention in the past you should never let a necromancer touch you? Ok well don't ever let a necromancer touch you.  Most of our magic is personal blood ritutal stuff, that needs contact with either our physical person or our blood (thus making necromancy the sexually transmitted disease of magic), this includes grabbing one to try and threaten him with your creepy white woman powers. I grabbed her hand with my left (because she had grabbed me from my right side, reaching her with my right hand would have been ridiculous), and even though I'd been out of practice I was able to remember the ritutals properly and spoke the words faster than I'd ever spoken anything before (or since to be honest).

What started as her grabbing me, became me grabbing her, I felt my feet under me as my power overtook hers.  A swell of power ripped into me, like taking a bath in lava it was excruciating (not that I've done that, but I can assume from this personal scarring painful moment its equivelent, not that any of you will ever suck the power of a god into you with hope). On top of the pain, the memories were confusing, God's don't have the same kind of memory you or I do, they have some kind of floating concience, so there wasn't a concept of time or natural flow, just moments all in the same time frame.  What took less than a minute to do, felt like years to me, when I could see clearly again Ruk and the others were out and near, I warned them to stay back.

Sucking a person's soul down is one thing, its a one to one type transaction, we are on the same wave length as it were.  A god is another thing entirely, their entire existence is based on belief and some odd framework of magic, taking their energy is like trying to drink the ocean only worse because I was able to do it.  I was too "full" as it were. I could feel power seeping out of me in all directions.  If you ever had a question if a man can be a god? The answer is no, no we can not.

I ran away from Ruk and his group, I ran far and hard because I could feel magic exploding out of me and I honestly did not know what would happen.  In the end I exploded (not like fleshly, but magically).  The destruction from my explosion annihilated an entire field, it dug into the ground and created a crater unlike any man made weapon had ever inflicted that I'd ever seen. My clothes were vaporized and all the hair on my body burned off.  I was younger again, the old bones and wounds healed by the necromantic arts, but the lingering residue of taking too much in left me unable to move or think, I collapsed and would not awake for weeks later.  The damage I'd done in the east would be felt for generations... But thats for tommorrow, because honestly killing a god is a good enough entry for a day!