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- Subject: [Mista][L] Redlin: One down....
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.174043.4170@wkuvx1.bitnet>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:40:43 CST
- Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
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- Redlin felt his feet leave the ground as the air elemental enveloped
- him. The fast rush of air over his face threatened to suffocate him as it
- drew the air out of his lungs. He was caught in a storm of flying rocks
- that would have killed a normal man in seconds, and he was afraid that he
- was not much better. The flying dust blinded him and his motion quickly
- left him dizzy and disoriented.
- He was beginning to fear that the wild ride would never stop when he
- felt something wrench at his hands. Instinctively he clutched them tighter
- feeling the familiar grip of his jimvata, his blooded-blade. All at once
- he knew what to do. From deep inside his soul he drew forth the name of
- his blade. The soul which answered him knew by experience the force of
- Redlin's will, but resisted anyway...
-
- <- A black landscape, flat and featureless. Redlin stands alone, this
- sight as familiar to him as the sky itself.
- "Adami, can you choose no other colors to torture me with? This black
- has no originality!" His scathing and sarcastic voice rang out through the
- land.
- The sibulant whisper which answered him contained no hint of anger. It
- was, in fact, totally devoid of emotion. "You have left me so few
- amusements, Redlin, since you stole my soul from my body to give this
- perversion life."
- "At least I keep you fed, you vampire. Aid me now or you will not even
- have that comfort." Redlin's impatience colored his words strongly.
- "I cannot refuse, Redlin Aaron Hawkwind, but prey that my time never
- comes."
- "Then feed, you netherspawn. I command it. Relish the taste of so
- strong a life as the elemental which holds my body, and in so doing, free
- me from its grasp!"
- The landscape fades to white as Adami releases his tenuous hold on
- Redlin's thoughts. ->
-
- His hands burned. Somehow he knew that through the fog of non-feeling
- that was his pain editor. Somehow he felt the fire crawl up his arms and
- across his body. Somehow he felt himself fall to the ground, and his eyes
- opened after the shock had subsided.
- He saw himself in the center of the writhing mass of air that was the
- elemental. He saw his body and his sword fully covered in the black fire
- that was the physical manifestation of Adami's power. He saw the elemental
- shrink down to nothing more than a gust of wind along his sword's edge, and
- then vanish.
-
- /- Pain edit: off -\
-
- \- Acknolwedged -/
-
- "One down. Too many to go." He moved off toward the large earth that
- no one had bothered to engage yet, his body newly healed and refreshed.
- -----
- Master Hawk
- Last Lord of Aracnis
-
- The deed is done, and all that shall be left to oppose its authors have
- been swallowed by the darkness of thier own souls.
-