Icarus Dray
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Character Name - Icarus Dray"He is touched! He is cursed! Cursed I say!" The woman screamed as the priests took her baby from her arms. "No my child, it is you that is sick" The old man said to her in a kindly voice. We take him away, to protect him from you". "Do not take him! He should drown, drown him!" Quickly the priests restrained the woman, and murmoured prayers sending her into a slumber.
The high priest shook his head. "Illmater save her troubled soul, she is clearly in need of our aid" He tended the wounds of the baby, the scratches, and bleeding quickly vanishing under his care. The others continued to murmour softly to the woman as she was carefully placed in a softly furnished cell, tying her to the bed "For her own good".
Many years passed and the woman grew quiet, and the priests were happy with their work, until they brought her son to see her, a young lad now.
"Icarus, this is your mother" The boy stared at her. Under the watchful eyes of the priests she approached him, and tears rolled down her cheeks. "He is so beautiful! My handsome little boy!" She hugged him, joy in her eyes, and the priests smiled and mumbled thanks to their lord for saving the woman's soul.
"You, are NOT my mother. I HAVE NO mother." Then… Chaos. Bolts of magical energy blew the woman away from the boy, her flesh blackened as she was hurled backwards and flung against a wall, her head smashing with a sickening crack. Horrified looks among the priests as intense multi-coloured searing bright flashes erupted from the boys fingers, blinding and paralyzing the priests who were too slow to cover their eyes. When they came too, the boy was gone, leaving only the lingering smell of burning flesh...
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