Fate - First Reply A new darkness

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Zar'Ahal was still alive and well in the day following the coronation.

Sazalam had returned to the plaza where yesterday the fates of many, including himself, were changed forever.
Now it was still as death and it was death that he sought out there. The memory of death. Slowly he measured the distance, eyeing the spot on the floor where it happened.

Here, the Queens hand plunged the dagger into her heart right here.

Sazalam took a moment to stand on the only grave she would ever have. To enjoy being alive and elevated and loved where she lost at last what pride and hate had begun to shed from her four hundred years ago.

Her fall was long and cruel and his mind could not think of any person more deserving of such a fate. To die alone and scorned at the hand of another person she had betrayed.

It still felt just, it still felt earned.

"Here lies Dia'Umora, traitor, liar and murderer of children. May the light scorch your soul to nothing."

To seal his curse he bit his cheek and spat blood onto the stones where her body had fallen before turning sharply on his heels and making his way to the exit.

Some on the surface had told him that revenge was the gods alone to enact.
Perhaps there was some truth to that.

Again he contemplated telling Zathria about it, how he was born belonging to a family of power hungry psychotics. How he escaped to find safety in the Colleges and worked his way up through hundreds of years of service, always dreading the day he would turn around and see her face.

No.

He was not that person anymore. That boy did not make it to adulthood. He had been shed like a second skin and only the life he had carved out for himself remained though he did not fully know where it led yet.


Outside the slow day was turning to evening. Businesses were attempting to clean up the messes that had stubbornly remained since the night before. Someone had abandoned a varnyx which was eating cake from a table, saddle and all.
Sazalam laughed out loud at that and strode into the streets with fresh eyes.
 
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Tapping his short staff softly on the ground as a gentle-drow's cane, the tall, lanky socialite wizard Ferzil approached the scene of the events preceding the coronation. It had taken more than a day for the crowds to finally clear out. The Temple had removed them, he noticed.

Ferzil paused, nonchalantly pulling two crystal flowers out from his pocket. Walking a few steps to identify the two closest puddles of mostly-dried, deep purplish-maroon blood, he crushed a flower in his hand over each of the two puddles in turn, letting the crystal crumbles fall into the still-tacky pools. He stood there for a moment, eyes glazed in a momentary memory, then his staff-cane resumed its soft tap as he started to walk away.
 
"Flowers for the dead?"
Sazalam knew of Ferzil by reputation only, the somewhat eccentric brother of Tyrnael Myrlochar. Who was instrumental in reinstating the true queen.

"Is that a tradition of house Myrlochar or a fancy of your own making?"
Not judging really Sazalam only wondered at what grievance Ferzil was quieting.

He had not expected to see anyone.

Ferzil Myrlochar
 
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Ferzil turned, seeming somewhat surprised to be addressed. Recognizing Sazalam, he swept off his wizard hat into a flourishing courtly bow.

“Ah! Rahi’Valsharess. My belated congratulations. And soon to be adopted into House At’Arel, if rumors are to be believed. I might wager you were selected in part for your keen perception and vigilance. Let us walk, lest we be seen to linger too long here. Be assured that many unseen eyes are upon both of us.”

“Alas, those two puddles at the end of the row were yesterday my sisters, tragically misguided by Matron Twin’znar to their ignominious end. I used to bring them each a crystal flower, you see, whenever I would foray for fire-lichen to dry for my evocation components. The two are often found together. Mother always demanded the very brightest colors in the pyrotechnics for her parties. Dried market lichen simply would not do. But yes. We shan’t, of course, be allowed to tend our sisters properly, such were their crimes, so I merely came to offer this silent farewell - a symptom of my personal sentimentality, nothing more.”

Sazalam
 
"Yes, well. None more surprised than I was to receive the honour and rumour has a way of getting carried away, I deal in fact, no such adoption has happened yet."

Correcting Ferzil was almost a matter of course for him but he wasn't angry, just not willing to engage in gossip.

"A nice gesture. I imagine it is difficult to live in a house so shaken by the civil war. Though I do not believe it to be uncommon. The Usurper had many followers."

He was quiet for a few steps.

"There is no shame in missing them."

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The tall wizard chuckled softly, his cane-staff softly rapping their pace.

"Tell that to the wags of the Rise! -but the sentiment is appreciated. And, one supposes, better to live in a shaken house than to die crushed by its rubble. Perhaps when I am become as old as E'spdon Suulet'jabar, we Myrlocharii shall again know some portion of our former glory. But I need not tell you that. You are at least a century my senior, and of course, coming from the house that you did -and that I shall never again mention. A recognition only. Perhaps, you might call it a hobby of mine, tracing the trails of House-blood as they meander, tarry, and mingle atop our ever-decadent Rise."

Sazalam