Eddard

[derflam]

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Character: Eddard

Eddard's Tale

A loud boom was heard suddenly as a building burst into flames, the kegs within it catching on fire. The shouts of the villagers dying all around, screams of children and women. The smoke thick in the air, it was hard to see, blinking to get the vision back was the worst thing I could do.

Everywhere the bodies of the villagers were surrounded by puddles of blood, hungry bugbears drooling over their corpses, some even stopped to eat some of the dead. The militia scrambled about, trying to get the living out of the town, their red cloaks swirling through the light of the fading sun. The screams multiplied, even more houses bursting into flames as the bugbears slaughtered everything, weapons in one hand, torches in another.

I saw him, as I was screaming for my father and mother, he stood there and took his helmet off, looking in my direction with a wicked grin on his face. His purple and black armor glinting in the fire light from the houses, those purple eyes focusing in on me, freezing me where I stood. I had to move, father and mother were most likely dead, I had to get away, but my legs would not move.

I gripped the knife in my hand so tight my knuckles hurt as I stared back at him as defiantly as I could, yet my eyes most likely gave away my fear. What would a knife do against those bugbears if they came for me, or that man.. he seemed so powerful.

Suddenly the man turned to grab a woman that ran behind him, snapping her neck in a fluid motion. This was my time, it felt like I was released from his hold, I ran and didn't stop until I was surrounded by trees, the screams fading in the distance, my old life fading with them. Norwick was gone in the fire of war, my family was dead and I was all alone.

Soon my time will come for revenge, I will find that man and put his head under my sword, but for now I am alone. Survival for now, revenge later.

The Rawlinswood is my new home now.

[Teah]

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