Chapter XXVI (Alissarh)
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She didn't know how much time has passed since they took away her father. Her mind escaped to insanity to protect her body after she destroyed her throat shouting after her dad and starching her fingers down to the bone on the cell door. As she looked down on her hands numbly, she saw that they were wrapped in cloth and dried blood colored the dressing on wound to scarlet. It must have been long enough for the blood to dry, but not long enough for the wounds to heal. Her mind was awakening slowly, but it was still between craziness and sanity. –“I wasn’t here alone. Some one important was with me in the cell.”- She heard herself speak out loud, though her mouth was so dry she couldn’t open in and she did not make a sound. She scanned the cell with her eyes, but it was too dark to see anything, she could only fathom a bulk figure in the corner. She slowly approached it and touched its back softly. The body was warm but didn’t make a move when she touched it. She tried to turn it around to see what or who it is. When she grabbed the side of the body and turned it around, the cloths fell down and revealed the abused, broken, half rotten, dead body of Carla. She apparently was beaten and reaped many times before her neck was cut trough. The smell rose from the corps made Alissarh choke. She would have thrown up if there would have been anything in her stomach. However, the sight of the mutilated dear woman was enough to shatter that little piece of sanity she could regain. The young lady stumbled to the wall and slide down to crouch in the corner. She fell into a catatonic state, seeing herself from the outside swinging back and forth. The lights running outside her window. It could have been days or months or just hours. She could see herself turn in to an old woman then back into twenty then to a newborn. She saw the souls of the men passed away in this cell and the life they lived. She might would have stayed in this state forever if at one-point Lord Orthen did not barge in the cell. He slammed the door behind him and rushed to Alissarh. – “ Oh, dear Lord what have hey done to you my darling.”- He stroke her face with such fatherly gentleness that Lissa could feel a tear drop leave her eye. She fell out of the catatonic swinging and just started to weep on Orthen’s chest. –“Dear Lissa, I am so sorry. I can never atone for the sins I committed against you and everybody else. Even if I haven’t done it out of my own will. But I have so little time and freedom even right now. Vesphar has to focus with all his attention to something, so I could gather the power to came here and give you this letter. I had to explain everything to Liam, because I have to die tonight if I want us to be freed from the shadow of the Forger.”- Alissarh tried to ask but she could only rattle. “- Oh sorry I am so focused on the ask. Sorry , here have some. “- Said Orthen and helped her drink some from a waterskin. The fresh cold water helped Lissa to regain some of her strength and focus. –“What are you talking about Orthen, I don’t understand a thing. You try to convince me that you are a human being while you massacred thousands and killed your own best friend my father. ?”- She accused the old lord. –“I know , I know, and I am not here for your forgiveness, but I have time to tell you some of the story. But first please hide this letter as good as you can and give it to Liam. –“ The guilty and fear was so visible on his face that Alissarh could help to believe him, so she hid the latter in her undergarment. –“Thank you dear so much. “- The young lady nodded and looked at Orthen with piercing eyes. –“Now, talk. “- The look was so commanding, so royal that made Orthen think how others could miss the signs of the emperor’s bloodline. –“ It all started when we got back from the war in Aastricar, my wife Margaret was kidnaped as a punishment for accepting your father’s oath. Theodore and I went to the capital to rescue her. We went trough countless adventures and met a lot of people on the road, but I don’t have time for the whole story. When we arrived to the seat of the Forger Theodore held back the guards while I went to confront our tyrant. I never knew a living man could wield the power of the dark realm, but he called forth the power from the shadows and bound me with them. He made me watch as he tortures my wife to death. He gave control to over me to his puppet master and sent me back to Grimwalden with the strings attached. The revenge of the Forger is lasting for a lifetime. They made me kill your mother to also torture your father. They made me use my county as a test field of new soldiers. But at least I could give the power of the Fenris family to Liam. I… I … I… –“ The life from Orthen’s eyes disappeared and he straightened. Alissarh didn’t understand first what happened. Then she could see the shadows around his neck and wrists. The Lord of Grimwalden walked out the cell and called out to the guards. –“ Take her to the sacrificial chamber! Its almost time. “- Then he walked away without looking back . The guards came in and chained Alissarh’s hands together. She looked up and could see as the hilt of the guard’s sword came down on her and smashed into her temple and she lost consciousness.
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