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As dawn broke, and the morning sun began to peek through the clouds, she walked to the gate where the [[airships]] were floating and read the sign. ‘Tempest Brothers Expeditionary Company.’ ''Well,'' she thought. ''It’s as good a place as any other to make a new start.'' | As dawn broke, and the morning sun began to peek through the clouds, she walked to the gate where the [[airships]] were floating and read the sign. ‘Tempest Brothers Expeditionary Company.’ ''Well,'' she thought. ''It’s as good a place as any other to make a new start.'' | ||
Dragonett spent the next ten months working for the company, exploring the interior of the continent, growing stronger, and working to uncover and defeat a plot of corruption and decay that infested the wilds. Still, Dragonett was haunted by her unfinished business. Once the camp had been destroyed and the company was forced to retreat to Galik, she took some time off from company business to try to track down the remaining six who had eluded her for so long. Using newfound contacts among her compatriots, she was able to find additional leads that she hoped could gain her the revenge that she felt she owed her parents. | |||
Dragonett | Two months and several dead ends later, Dragonett returned to the company with five more names crossed off her arms. Her fantasies of exacting revenge on those who had wronged her family were crushed by the reality that she discovered. Two of those she hunted, the Rat and the Bugbear, had been hanged by the Galik authorities after being caught in a bungled attempt at robbery that had become a scene of murder. Their bodies had been tossed in a mass grave outside of the prison. Two more, Midnight and the Ghost, were murdered in their sleep. Their unique skin tones helped Dragonett confirm their identities from the inkeeper who had found their cold bodies the following day. They also lay in an unmarked grave in a nameless hamlet outside of Galik. The final person that she was able to find was the one she remembered as Royal Highness. She found him lying in a flophouse, dying from disease and in wracking pain. He was penniless and hadn't been thrown out on the street due to the proclaimed mercy of the innkeeper. However, Dragonett was able to discover that the houselady was actually significantly concerned that she could possibly catch the disease from touching the man. | ||
"End me," Royal Highness croaked to Dragonett when she appeared in the doorway. His room stunk of sweat, urine, soiled clothes, and sickness. It reminded her of the slave pit in the sewer. | |||
"End me," Royal Highness croaked to Dragonett when she appeared in | |||
"Do you know who I am?" she asked. | "Do you know who I am?" she asked. | ||
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"If you are a person of mercy," he replied through clenched teeth as another wave of pain tore through him, "you will end my horrible existence." | "If you are a person of mercy," he replied through clenched teeth as another wave of pain tore through him, "you will end my horrible existence." | ||
"I am not," she replied. "And even though I swore to do so, it would give me no pleasure." | "I am not," she replied. "And even though I swore to do so, it would give me no pleasure." | ||
The man writhed and called out in agony for a moment, his whole body tensing. After a moment, he passed out, his breath ragged and labored. After searching through his belongings, Dragonett failed to find anything that could lead her to the last quarry, and so she resigned herself to waiting until he opened his eyes again, hours later. | The man writhed and called out in agony for a moment, his whole body tensing. After a moment, he passed out, his breath ragged and labored. After searching through his belongings, Dragonett failed to find anything that could lead her to the last quarry, and so she resigned herself to waiting until he opened his eyes again, hours later. | ||
"End me," he cried out when he noticed her standing in the doorway. | "End me," he cried out when he noticed her standing in the doorway. | ||
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"If you are person of mercy," he whimpered, "you will end my horrible existence." | "If you are person of mercy," he whimpered, "you will end my horrible existence." | ||
"Don't bother," the innkeeper said to Dragonett. The houselady was dressed in workclothes and was moving through the hallway. Dragonett noticed that she kept away from the door to Royal Highness' room. "He don't recognize nobody and jus' says the same thing over 'n over again. He'll be out of his misery soon enough." | |||
"Don't bother," the innkeeper said to Dragonett | |||
''Not soon enough for me,'' Dragonett thought. ''"''How long has he been like this?" She nodded toward the bed where the man continued to whimper. | |||
" | "He collapsed in the alley just last week and I took him in and cared for him but turns out he's sick as Talona's curse and he's gone stark ravin' mad two days hence," she replied. | ||
Dragonett could tell what she wasn't saying: ''he looked well off and you cleaned out his purse thinking he was just a drunkard and now you're too afraid to get close to him until he's good and dead.'' "Has he had any visitors? Anyone who's been to check on him?" | |||
"Nobody," the woman shook her head. | |||
Dragonett pressed a coin into her hand. "Thank you for keeping him alive." The woman nodded and continued with her work. Dragonett turned back to Royal Highness. ''His suffering means a great deal to me.'' She stayed at the flophouse for two more days, hovering outside of the man's room, watching him tortured by his disease and wrapped in his own filth. When he finally took his last gasping breath and lay still, Dragonett felt nothing. | |||
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