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17 years ago
I used the word, I had to, to save Radriel. A man, in black armor, met me at the south gates. He had told me, that he had a message to deliver, and asked if I had seen a young man named Cray. I did not want to answer, I had wanted to get away. But he asked, if the inn would be a good place to find this Cray, so I had told him, his guess was a good one. It was no lie, the inn would be a great place to find me.
Then, after I had answered, Radriel came running through the gates. It gave me reasonable cause to get away from there, away from the man in black armor. So I ran, and she ran after me, just laughing. We had run all the way to the lake, so I turned and hid behind some of the low stone walls. After explaining to Radriel why I had run, and what was going on, we had both decided to stay there untill we caught our breaths, then practice in the woods for a time. Hopefully giving the man in black enough time to leave Norwick.
We were not so lucky. He had found us, and did not look all to happy at my deception. He asked if I was Cray, there was no point in lying now, so I told him that I was. He then asked for proof, mentioning the ring. So, I had pulled out the box and told him that it was inside. That was still not good enough, so I said the word, felt the pain as always, and pulled out the ring.
About that time, he had drawn his blade, and Radriel, had told me to run, before firing an arrow at him. He cursed her, pulling out a bow of his own, and shot at her. They had a short arrow for arrow fight, but one of his hit hard, and Radriel fell to the ground, bleeding.. Seeing that, seeing the man.. I had no idea what came over me. Great rage? Anger? I am not sure, but in an instant, I had shouted out the word ~Morgrath~. As I said the word, I felt a dark energy quickly swirling about me, around my whole body. And then, just as quickly, the energy shot out towards him, striking him dead center in the chest. He scrambled back, clutching a hand to his chest in pain. It was not enough to stop this assassin, but it was enough to give me time to summon my guardian.
The man stepped back in fear, seeing my dog, as many others have when they see it for the first time. I had told him, to speak his message, which he did. He said, that his message was from Lord of Bloodspear, something along the lines of, it being a shame, that he could not have met me in person. After finishing the message, the assassin then said, Now he is suposed to take my head, so he had drawn his blade. One simple command, two simple words "Kill him" was all I said, and my guardian ripped the man limb from limb, through plate armor.
After I was certain he was dead, I rushed over to Radriels side. She was hurt, badly, but luckily, days before, Sir Gemli had givin me quite a powerfull healing potion. I turned her over, holding her head up, she was barely breathing, barely awake. I put the bottle to her lips, pouring in little by little, allowing her to drink. She had swallowed some of it, and choked on more than half the bottle. But it was enough to stop the worst of the bleeding, so I helped her stand, and we started walking back to Norwick.
Along the road, we had met with the druids, Sir Oreth, Miss Belia, and three others I have not met. They were more than happy to heal us, and escort us back to Norwick. Telling them about what had happened, we made it safely to Norwick. Radriel and I thanked them for their help, and made our way to the keep, where yet, another danger met us.
We were right outside the keeps gates, when a rather large bolt of lighting struck the ground in the feilds not far away. I had went to go put the fire out, thinking it a force of nature and nothing more. Untill, rising from the flames, was this rather large fire elemental. It came towards us slowly, Radriel had opened the gates as I asked its reason of being here.
It did not respond, it just walked towards me, slowly. I had hit it with a frost spell, and Radriel grabbed me by the waist, pulling me inside. There we hid, in the safety of the keep, untill the golem began to walk towards the door. Radriel followed it, and told me to wait inside. As I went outside, I saw the golem fighting with the fire elemental. They were both heavily damaged, the fire elemental barely glowing, its embers almost out, small puffs of fire was all that swirled about it. Our Golem, was more than half melted, but faught on. With one massive swing of its right arm, it had crushed the fire elemental. The danger gone, we went back inside.
The golem took its post again, Radriel and I spending the rest of the day, talking, and reading books, in the safety of the keep.
