Some simple words
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:04 pm
Upon returning to her room, Ariane Carnath-Emory would find a note pressed beneath her door. Not the beautiful robins egg blue, but simple natural parchment. The writing within is a wandering scrawl of a thing.
"Ari,
I am sorry.
We should talk, if you wish it.
'Tias"
No more than that, he had learned not to trouble her with words on paper, as so many others had. He only hoped she would not notice the places where the ink was smuged, the paper distorted by painful tears.
It would not be again. Never. NEver another time like before. He could not leave it this way. He must know what it was that had spooked her so. What words had driven her back, so far back that it was worse than in the beginning...when she was only his guard. Now...she wasn't even that.
But what if they were not answers she wished to give? Then it would be as he had told Jirai. He was not afraid to kill. Not anymore, and if this was the fault of the one he suspected...Straka would have a new target for their gallows. Altias would without remorse tear Thadius Dhrin limb from miserable limb.
"Ari,
I am sorry.
We should talk, if you wish it.
'Tias"
No more than that, he had learned not to trouble her with words on paper, as so many others had. He only hoped she would not notice the places where the ink was smuged, the paper distorted by painful tears.
It would not be again. Never. NEver another time like before. He could not leave it this way. He must know what it was that had spooked her so. What words had driven her back, so far back that it was worse than in the beginning...when she was only his guard. Now...she wasn't even that.
But what if they were not answers she wished to give? Then it would be as he had told Jirai. He was not afraid to kill. Not anymore, and if this was the fault of the one he suspected...Straka would have a new target for their gallows. Altias would without remorse tear Thadius Dhrin limb from miserable limb.