I'll admit this whole sleeping outside thing hadn't been working out for me recently. I mean sure the coffee wake up with an assassin shoving a gun in my face was tolerable, but this getting drug into a cave to have my life force drained from me? Unacceptable. So needless to say before I drifted off to sleep I set up runes that would have stopped a god (well in theory I've never tested my runes versus a god yet). So it wasn't a big surprise that I was awoken by a creature that had tripped my rune. It was a bit of a surprise when I saw the creature.
It was at first glance a woman. Completely naked, though naked hear meaning wearing no clothes not that she had that many "womanly" features, there were the appearance of breasts but no female gentalia. Her "skin" was a bright green that was torn in some places revealing an oozing blackness behind it. She had no eyes or nose, but there was a mouth, her hair appeared to be some kind of twisted vines. From her labored breathing she looked to be dying, but not from my Runes.
"You killed us." The voice was like a whisper, which again spoke to the dying aspect her body showed.
"I did?" I admit I've killed a lot of things, so its not a huge surprise when people accuse me of having killed them, but I do get a bit mystified when things say that while they are still alive.
"You burned the body, you destroyed us, and we sought you for revenge, we have nothing left now, your trickery having hurt us again." The plant creature, or what remained of it, have to say that inside of it? Was a woman, very very creepy.
"You tried to kill me, I don't take kindly to that." I thumbed the leather strap holding my revolver in place off, I didn't know what was left of this creature after my rune had hurt it, but I wasn't taking any chances.
"We were ancient, you but a bug, no more than food for the form, food should not fight back against its master." I drew down and blasted her, black blood erupted from where the gun shots hit, a hissing sizzle filled my ears as the blood hit the ground and marked it. My horse now apparently just aware of there being something in our camp (useless creature) startled and let out a noise.
"Ancient creatures should learn to leave Trezlan Lorentino alone." The creature was dead but I had the line and I was going to use it damn it! I spit on the body. It oozed and the ground around it was becoming blackened and smelled foul the longer it decayed. Which made my decision for me about leaving early. It wasn't like I wanted to stick around anyway.
And so my strange journey that started out by trying to help an assassin and ended up with me killing an ancient plant creature came to a close. I made Rosetia again with little trouble and I was very happy to see my shop had not burned down (there were some angry requests from patrons nailed to the door, but even those were welcomed). I have to say I was glad my traveling was over for a bit, as I always am because it meant I could have some more time to screw up things locally!
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