The Inner Thoughts of The Last Valheru

[DoS Archive]

Date: 10/17/97 7:44 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: Duke UzieI


Things had gotten strange.
Adonai sat deep in thought at his massive oak desk in the office of the Knight Marshal of Questrion, his paperwork pushed aside and his hand around a glass of cold tea. His eyes staring into nothingness as his mind sifted through all the things that he held within himself and shared not with a soul.
With a surge of his will he opened a rift in front of him, his eyes taking in the environs of Midra and its inhabitants, sitting carefully away from the rift and not entering as the fabric of reality was to chaotic and confusing for him. He searched about with his mind, the rift shifting to different halls and rooms of the Castle, but with an expected sigh, he closed the rift, not finding what he had searched for.
He picked up the letter opener on the deck, tapping its tip idly on the top of the desk and thinking to himself.....the memories of times past still clear to him and the questions he had for the one that had been his friend still unanswered.
He was ashamed of himself in a way.....he had closed himself off after the events of the last several weeks, reverting to the Knight Marshal of Questrion and pushing Adonai far back in his mind....not to hear the questions in his soul and have to answer them, to keep any image of weakness from showing.
>Zaradda.....< He thought, many feelings coming to him with that name, his anger with himself for abandoning a friend an almost palpable feeling. Its bile filling his mouth with an awful taste. >My friend.....I am sorry.<
With a grunt he threw the letter opener, its silver streak catching the candle light and reflecting it back to the stone walls as it crossed the distance from the desk to the door in under a second, burying the blade near to the hilt in the doorway.
With that he turned back to his work......for a time..able to forget.