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Post by Morhin on Mar 20, 2007 10:20:44 GMT -5
Now Rawhide felt sick. "You used Krait, your cousin, to mess up just so you could kill me." He shoock his head and said, "You know Morwen will probably kill you for betraing her. I was going to try to help. Your fighting skills are amazing. And I hate to see good tallent waisted. But now," Rawhide trailed off and sighed, "Now, I cannot in good consious do that." Rawhide called the gaurds back and was carryed out. Back in his room, Rawhide began to make notes on for the next few weeks of training.
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Post by Morwen on Mar 20, 2007 16:08:25 GMT -5
"You killed my farther half-breed, i would never accept you're help." she yelled after him, her eyes wild. Then she calmed herself and smiled. "Morwen will let me free...the fool belives in freindship."
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Post by Morhin on Mar 26, 2007 12:34:10 GMT -5
"I told Morwen that they would be back! Maybe now she will beleive me!" Blood and swet driped down Rawhide's face. His left eye was covered with a now blood soaked bandage. He would probably lose the eye, if not his life. A baby's cry behind him reminded Rawhide what he was fighting to protect. He glanced behind him at his wife and son. Her face was hidden by the cloak she woar and was trying to comfert the child. Suddenly another Tatteyen burst through the door, only to be cut down by Rawhide's blade. Then, as quickly as the first had appeared, three more leaped through the doorway. Rawhide cut the first Tatteyen's leg clean off, slashed the second's face with his elven blade, and saw the third fall dead at his feet with a deep wound in his back. Rawhide looked up and gasped. It couldn't be. "Father?..." Rawhide manadged. His father opened his mouth to speak, but only a rush of air came out. A crossbow bolt had peirced his heart. His father droped to the floor dead, as Rawhide turned to meet the attacker. Rawhide stoped in confusion. There stood his wife, holding their son in one arm, and a crossbow in the other. Before Rawhide could ask, another Tatteyen came up behind his and drove a dagger deep into his back. Rawhide cryed out in pain but kept his feet long enough to drive his elven blade into his attacker's chest. Rawhide fell to his knees and strugled to breath. His wife droped the crossbow and picked up a hot iron from the fire. Rawhide tryed to yell stop but couldn't, as she raised it up towards her face. In the glow of the iron, Rawhide knowtest that on her cheek bore a scare. A crudely cut R. She took the iron and branded the child's chest. It cryed out in pain, but Rawhide couldn't move. His wife knelt down in frount of Rawhide and removed her cloak. His eyes went wide as Sereghin smiled showed him the burn. It was an eye. "You failed." She smerked as she pulled out a dagger and layed it against his throught. "Sereghin!" Rawhide screemed as she slit his throught.
"Sereghin!!!" Rawhide screemed. He was covered in a cold swet and his elven knife was in his hands. He reached for his eye, it was fine, but his hand trembled. His hands never trembled. He tryed to get up, but a pain shot through his leg, reminding him just where he was. "Are you ok, Sir?" Asked the Master Sargent. Rawhide turned to see the Sargent holding a sword, and three men stood at the door with swords drawn, ready to fight to protect their captain. Rawhide slowly put his knife down and moved the papers he had been studying to the desk. "I must have dozed off. Nightmare." Rawhide said, his voise still with authority. "I'm fine, you may go back to bed." The Master Sargent didn't look convinced, but layed back down on his cot on the other side of the room. He closed his eyes, and for the first time in almost 15 years, Rawhide was afraid.
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Post by Morwen on Mar 26, 2007 13:15:18 GMT -5
The Queen rode though the gates of the barraks "Where is you're Captin?"
"Inside marm."
"Tell him i shall meet him in the atrium." Then she carried on to an impressive building attached to the barracks that was used to recive guests. She sat down on a carved oken chair in the center, with her closest advisors, women and Rhuzons.
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Post by Morhin on Mar 27, 2007 8:14:18 GMT -5
"Captain Rawhide! The Queen has arived and is waiting for you in the atrium!" An excited solder yelled as he tryed to wake his captain. Rawhide opened his eyes and looked around. Things were just as he left them. He through on a shirt and ordered his cot be carried to the atrium. But he had them stop at the door. Rawhide had too much pride to be carried in on a cot to see his Queen. Slowly and painfuly, Rawhide stood, with the help of the Master Sargent who refused to leave his side. They entered the room and Rawhide said, "Welcome Morwen, Queen of Rhun. Forgive me for not meeting you at the gate, or for showing more respect by kneeling. My leg just won't allow me to do that yet." Rawhide stood leaning against the Master Sargent and continued. "Sereghin is locked in the stocks if you wish to see her."
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Post by Morwen on Mar 28, 2007 4:21:10 GMT -5
"Of course Captian, i would not have expected it, please resume the position most comfortable to you." she waited for him to lie down, then contiuned. "In the stocks? Captian let us presume that i know nothing of what has happened here, that my own spies and not that of the Tatteyen; yes i am perfectly aware of them Captian; let us presume that i know only that the Lady Sereghin has been accused a traitor beyond doubt; the proof i am not aware of; and therefore has been relived of her positon as Commander. Let us presume that i know all this. Under these presumptions i ask why the Lady of Tazlure is in the stocks like a commnor and not in prison where her class dictates she should be." she gave a smile that belied her apparent anger. "This is the part Captain where you explain yu're resons for everything, give you're side of the story, and i reveal how much i really know." She sat back and waited.
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Post by Morhin on Mar 28, 2007 7:51:56 GMT -5
Rawhide smiled at Morwen and said, "Because training barracks don't have prisons. All we have are a few holding cells, where she is locked up with three Rhuzons gaurding her. I would have moved her to the palace prison, but my wound has preveneted me from doing much. And I did not think it wise to do so. The Tatteyen might deside that she is worth saving, or must be killed, and the trip from here to the palace would be the time to do eather one." Rawhide stoped a moment to reposision himself and then continued. "But for why she is in the stocks. Simply put, she is a trator. She tryed to kill me for knowing too much about the Tatteyen. She would have sucseded if I hadn't been able to fight her one on one. I defeated her, told her alies to get out, and locked her up." Rawhide then went back and told of Krait and his involvement, Sereghin's story of killing his father, and what little he knew about the other Tatteyen. "I'm sorry if my disisions displease you my Queen, but I acted on my instencs."
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Post by Morwen on Mar 29, 2007 4:29:41 GMT -5
"I see" she said nothing for a few moments, the nodded weairly. "Rawhide." she looked at him straight "the Lady Sereghin should not have been put in the stocks or stripped naked as my women tell me you had done. Being a tritor means that she cannot hold a position in the army automatically, which is why my women obayed you, however, only i can strip anyone of thier rank and a Lord or Lady, and only then if it is not by birthright and a whole host or reasons." she shook her head again. " A Lord or Lady commands the due respect whatever thier crimes and those that do not must be punished. However," she gave a small smile. "I shall make sure you have a light punishment." She bekoned a man foreward, "Bring the lady Sereghin to me, and give her some cloths."
"Rawhide you may as well know that Sereghin has been under a secret order of execution these last few days, since i discovered while in Dunland that she has been subverting my orders of an alliance with Far Harad, apparently this did not suit the Familly." She began to walk around the room. "I had hoped to use the Tatteyen for my own perposes, and i will not wage a war apon them, they are still too valubel. I knew that they would interfere with some orders if i placed Sereghin in such power but she was my childhood freind and i belived that the gains would outway the disadvantages." She laughed softly to herself. "However this time she went too far, that lost allaice almost brought us to war with them, which is not something i can afford."
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Post by Morhin on Mar 29, 2007 10:04:21 GMT -5
"I had my reasons for locking her up as I did. Sereghin is the kind of person who would have some weapon hidden on her. And I didn't want her to have anything that she could have used to escape." said Rawhide. "I once escaped from a dungon using only a stip of cloth and a wooden bowl. I was not about to take the chance that she might find a simaler way to escape." Rawhide shifted again to make himself more comfterble. He hated just sitting down when everyone else was standing. His fighting instengs told him that he had to be up too. Saking the thought off, Rawhide asked, "You and Sereghin grew up together? What was her childhood like? Why did she join the Tatteyen?"
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Post by Morwen on Mar 29, 2007 15:11:10 GMT -5
"She was born Tatteyen. She is part of the Familly. You do not join the Familly." she said grimly. "The Familly is at the center and you can only be born into it. You can be blood bound or marry into the Tatteyen, as i was due to be." she smiled and sat down next to him. "Sereghin was as a baby placed next to me as my conpanion, the Guild have more power than any organisation that i know of. Sereghin was of course brought up slightly seperatly, she was coached more as an assasin, i more as a Lady. I was never to inherit the throne, the last king had six sons, all of who died probebly at the hands of the Guild. At first it was deemed useful to have a powerful Lady at the court who was Tatteyen, then it was seen that they could have a Queen who could be Tatteyen. Unfortuanely Sereghin killed the last heir too early for my initioation. She was punished for that i belive. I however knew that i was not Tatteyen, that i was of blue blood. So i did not take the Familly as my councellors, agreeing only to Sereghin being given rank." her eyes had misted over with thoughts of the past. " It benifited me too, i had no freinds i felt i could trust, i am still building up allies in my own court, even as i have more allies in other lands. At least i had Sereghin beside me." She came back to present and looked at me. "Being even partly brought up by the familly teaches you not to trust, always to be on you're guard, it teaches you how to fight dirty, it teaches you the value of houner, it teaches you of trachery and how to deal with it...to be utterly heartless." A grim look came over her face.
"And now Sereghin has proved a traitor and must pay the price...and the Familly will see that i can be just as ruthless as they trained me to be...and that they cannot mess around with me any longer."
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Post by Morhin on Mar 30, 2007 11:51:00 GMT -5
Rawhide listened in silence. He was begening to understand the situation a little better. "You trusted Sereghin, and she betrayed you." He ran his hand over his mustash, thinking. "Do you think that maybe Sereghin has only betrayed you to protect you from the Family? Perhapes she saw what the Guild had done to her life and killed the last heir as a way to keep you out of it." Rawhide contiued to stroke his mustash, and then asked, "Sereghin told me that she was with the group that assassignated him. But they didn't kill me. Two escaped, Sereghin and her father, who I hunted down and killed. But she didn't tell me why. What do you know of the death of my father?"
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Post by Morwen on Mar 30, 2007 12:44:23 GMT -5
"Nothing, i was not aware of that. You must ask her when she arrives." she smiled werily. "Sereghin is still my best freind, and i know that she saved me from becomeing the monster the Familly wished me to be. But that is why she must die, i cannot have someone that close to me, and her death will make all the more impression." She finished, her eyes were as black and as hard as any of the Tatteyen.
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Post by Morhin on Mar 30, 2007 13:13:06 GMT -5
Rawhide could see how much this hurt Morwen. He didn't like it much eather. Rawhide wanted to argue something in Sereghin's favor. Offer another alterintive. But he had none. He wasn't even sure why he wanted to. She had killed his father, tryed to kill him, and had betrayed his trust. That was one thing that Rawhide hated more than anything else. He should be asking, no, begging to be the one to execute the traitor. But he wasn't, instead, he was trying to come up with a way to save her. Finaly, Rawhide spoke, "There are things worse than death."
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Post by Morwen on Mar 31, 2007 12:35:13 GMT -5
"Yes, there are." she stood up "Like betrayal."
"The Lady Sereghin is here you're magisty."
"Bring her in....I cannot allow her to live Rawhide, she is more useful dead to me than alive. I could tourture her, but the Tatteyen take no prisinors, they see it as a sighn of weakness."
Sereghin walked into the room flanked by Rhuzons. She wore a simple yellow shift, of silk. "You sent for me Morwen?" She asked useing her first name.
"Yes sister, i did. It was good of you to come so promptly, please do be seated. Gaurds take those chains off her, this instant." Sereghin sat down on the profitered chair simileing fatilisicly.
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Post by Morhin on Apr 2, 2007 11:16:16 GMT -5
Rawhide turned to where he could watch whatever was going to happen better. He eyed Sereghin. She had said that Morwen was a compationent fool. Well, Rawhide hoped for Sereghin's sake that she was, otherwise...he grimised at the thought of what Morwen might do. He couldn't help but knowtest the mark Sereghin now carried on her cheek. The crude R. He looked down at his bandaged leg. He might have a limp in his step for the rest of his life, but Rawhide disided that it was a fair trade. He listen as Morwen spoke.
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