Needing someone to provide a better plan than burn everything I see (which while it would have caused a lot of smoke and fire it wouldn't have done anything except make it impossible to actually be on Toebeck island) I sought out Rondo again (this was also because I wanted to hide out for a bit you know let my act of destruction blow over). The cave felt off when I entered it, I couldn't exactly place what was wrong, but I worried the spider people had found Rondo and set up a trap, well I was half right.
"You blew up the ship." Rondo was behind me causing me to do a double take. I mean I know I'm not the smartest guy but I can normally recall when someone is in one place over another. And there wasn't like an extra entrance I missed.
"Yeah it was filled with eggs! Also I can't really pilot a ship..." I was cut off mid sentence, a force that felt like getting hit with a sledgehammer drove me forward and into the cave wall behind me.
"You damn fool, I gave you a simple instruction to leave the island, I had that ship rigged up and everything and you BLEW IT UP!" I could see Rondo was glowing, this was entirely unexpected by me. Damn shorty magic users, its like giving magic to a rat, completely wasted opportunity. He smashed me against the wall again, I felt blood spill over my eyes from a headwound, woozyness started to set in.
"My my Rondo what a little bastard you turned out to be." I was tossed from my current wall to the other one, I felt my right leg get trapped and snap in an unhealthy way (as if theres a healthy way to break a limb).
"It was a simple plan Trezlan, no one else left here could negotiate the reefs, not the ghosts, not your damn idiot of a father, not any of the spider people, you were the only one who could get that damn boat moving, and you failed me. You are now useless to me, I won't even let you become an incubator, your corpse will just feed my minions!" I could feel him winding up to deliver a knock out blow (or a crushing finale or whatever) I decided I'd try a kind of go for broke move.
"If you kill me you'll never get off this island, I can show you the way." I could feel the bones in my leg twisting as he snatched me up in his magical fist and drug me roughly across the cave (which felt great). He held me close to his face, I could smell the stink of death and decay on him, I wondered how I missed it before, probably because I just mistook it for my own body odor (hey you go a couple days in this heat without showering, you smell awful too).
"Tell me everything." His deep voice was gone, now there was some kind of weird death rattle behind it (like wind rustling over leaves). I snatched him by the jaw with my right arm and started to drain his miserable soul immediately. There is nothing more dangerous than an angry hurt necromancer (well ok there are several things, but hey we are up there damn it!) normally necromancy can be done kind of painlessly, I've killed people who didn't even know they were dead until they collapsed. This was not one of those moments, I violently ripped Rondo's soul from his little body. As the power swapped places we trade positions, my right leg snapped back into position and I went from being held in the air to Rondo being held up by me. His eyes grew lifeless and body thinner and thinner, by the time I was finished he was nothing but a skeleton with sallow skin. I cast his corpse aside like so much used up garbage and was immediately hit with his memories.
Thats the dangerous side of being a vindicitive life thief, you aren't prepared for the feedback as it were. As I slumped to the floor into unconciousness, I wondered for a moment if the spider people would eat me or welcome me as their new master.
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