MM1-3H: Be Gone In The Morning by zaqxsw

Poser • Fantasy • posted on Jul 24, 2018

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“My patrol came across these two travelers on the Ride south of the Halfaxe Trail,” Willow reported in mater-of-fact tone, trying to calm the raging giant of a man with a level voice and military manner. “Although she’s drow, she is not evil and claims to serve a good goddess… she’s on some-kind of pilgrimage, and wanted to see the Standing Stone, so I agreed to escort them there, then I intended to take them on to Ashabenford to meet with High Councilor Malorn. But when we reached the Stone, we found this drow wizard and his minions defacing it. We spared his life so that he can be interrogated, but the others died in the battle… and it didn’t seem right to leave their bodies, or burn them, there.” “So, you drug them half-a-day’s ride to my post?” Kaulen growled, his mood not improved much by her statement, then he turned his scrutiny back on Coran and Taenya, and challenged; “What evidence do you have that they aren’t enemies of Mistledale?” “My holy sense of evil,” she retorted sharply, willing to placate the post commander, but not about to allow him to question her divinely granted abilities, “and their actions… they stood by my side in battle without hesitation.” “Really,” he snickered as he approached Coran, who had stood passively allow the paladin to deal with him until now, “and what good is an unarmed fool in battle?” “More than you obviously think, when he’s a student of the Sun Soul,” the monk shot back in a stern, but measured voice. “When you can harness the power of your mind, body and spirit, you are never unarmed or defenseless.” “A monk,” Kaulen observed with a touch of respect in his voice. “I’ve never heard of anyone from the Sun Soul school passing through Mistledale before… so, what brings you here now?” “I go where the whims of fate… or the Moonmaiden… take me,” Coran confessed. “Right now, it seems those whims have conspired to put me in the company of this priestess of Eilistraee.” “And you, drow,” Kaulen demanded in a far less congenial tone, turning his fierce glare on Taenya, “what pilgrimage brings you amongst those who your kin have so brutal savaged… and why shouldn’t we treat you as your kind has treated our defenseless woman and children?” “Not all drow bare darkness in their hearts… just as not all men bare light… aren’t there cities on the Moonsea full of humans who champion dark ways?” she countered in a calm tone. “Eilistraee asks that we travel to places we have never been to broaden our understand of the world and show those we encounter that we drow are not beyond redemption, especially now that Lolth has fallen silent and no longer poisons our kin with her need for cruelty and violence. Those like him,” she motioned to the bond wizard, “who have been oppressed by the Matrons and shaped by their society to think of all others as inferior, will need time to grow beyond their dark ways, but they can… they just need to be show the way into the light.” “That’s a pretty sermon from a pretty little thing like you,” he sneered with a clear tone of skepticism; he’d seen too much savagery and cruelty from the drow against innocents to believe that they could be so easily turned from their evil ways, “but pretty words and a pretty face too often mask the dagger that will be buried in your heart as soon as you let down your guard… and our people have suffered too much at the hands of your kind to believe that all it will take is a bunch of pretty words to turn them from their evil ways. The captain claims that you have no evil in your heart and I must trust in her divine insight, but I want you, him,” he indicated the wizard prisoner, “and the rest of you gone from my post at first light!” Then he turned to Willow and demanded; “Take them to Malorn as you intended. Search the bodies for anything of value before my men burn them, and I will allow you shelter here for the night but be gone in the morning!”

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