When I emerged (spiders dealt with, something for another entry) from the worm it was to a sight of utter destruction. The town was gone, townsfolk laid crushed or otherwise killed. The beast itself was barely alive. My combination of sword strikes and magic to its insides making them outside must have done it in. Or the limited weaponry the towns folk had killed the creature. Either way it was dying/dead, as was everyone else, along with everything else on the small outpost. I didn't even get paid, it was the worst.
"I don't even know where to begin." Trezlan of course showed up, I hadn't seen him since he "fixed" the world. He appeared in a chest open robe with a bald head and a flamboyant red beard. He looked better than when I last saw him, but I imagine not being locked in an underworld fighting a never ending battle would do that.
"Begin with what? My glorious victory over the worms."
"Right sure, no one is alive, and nothing is standing, if there wasn't a transport coming in a couple days you'd be dead."
"Well you're here, right? That has to account for something."
"The absurdity of it, really I'm here for the amusement of all things."
"I feel so blessed a relation of mine is a god and this is the best he offers me." Trezlan offered me a smile.
"You wouldn't be a Lorentino without a god coming to tell you how much you screwed up."
"I don't see how this is..."
"You caused the giant worm to attack the town when you attacked its insides, it thought in its final moments that you were a weapon they unleashed on it."
"Ok that might be..."
"In fact you attacking the first worm that grabbed you caused this whole thing, they were content to eat farm creatures and the occaisional person, you made them think differently."
"So I just escalated an issue that would get bad soon anyway." He smiled again, I was beginning to dislike it.
"It's like listening to me." He disappeared, At least he told me a transport was coming. So I got to sit there among the rubble and come up with a suitable story for whatever happened to everyone there. I admit I shouldn't have been surprised I got arrested.
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