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Vilmah
05-23-2006, 02:13 PM
Vilmah woke up to the sound of Nojinbu breathing. She smiled at him, from across the room. He sat with his back leaned up against the wall, while she awoke from the spacious bed that the inn in Brill provided. She still remembered last night.

“Oh, there’s only one bed..” she said, looking nervously at the room they purchased together.

Nojinbu nodded. “It be alright,” and sat with his back against the wall.

“Oh no, you take it,” Vilmah said, pleadingly.

Nojinbu shook his head. “Nah, ah’m usta sleepin in strange positions.”

She stretched her limbs, and grabbed her armor. She’d laid it against the bed earlier that night, and was now wearing a silk shirt she had sewn only days ago. Nojinbu wore one too, underneath his black tuxedo. The red brought out his pale blue skin, and made Vilmah recall the journal entries he’d written about living with the other Ice Trolls. He sounded as if writing his departure was painful, and she could understand why.

Getting an idea, she grinned and picked up her Whirlwind Axe. I think I’ll surprise him with breakfast. I wonder if he likes bat meat?

Wandering out from Brill, she began walking towards a series of huge bats. They looked meaty and tough, and Vilmah wondered if perhaps Nojinbu would prefer them raw rather than well done. She carefully approached one, her axe poised to decapitate it, when a hand clasped around her mouth and caught her ponytail in a tight fist.

“Don’t scream, orc,” said a voice, in Common. “It will only make this last longer.”

A moment later, her body lay upon the dying grass, blood from a wound on her head mingling with the decaying plants. She breathed shallow, and tried to catch a glimpse of her attacker, before she quickly went unconscious.

Shadowspeak
05-23-2006, 05:20 PM
((oh no!))

Vilmah
05-23-2006, 07:26 PM
((oh no!))

(( :cry: ))

clys
05-23-2006, 08:29 PM
((wasn't me!))

Fallacy
05-24-2006, 08:29 AM
((Ouch.))

Vilmah
05-24-2006, 09:22 AM
It was early evening when Vilmah woke up. Her helmet had been knocked clear off of her head, but she found it lying beside her. There was a visible dent in the back, and when she reached a hand back to feel where the intense throbbing was coming from, she found a deep gash and caked blood that dripped past her neck and on to her back. Her left eye stung, and there was a tingling in her jaw. Struggling to get up, she caught a glimpse of herself in her desecrated Whirlwind axe. It was too blurry to see, but she could tell that part of her face was discolored.

“Is that…?” She said out loud, when she realized what was covering her beloved weapon. “Oh, that’s nasty!!”

Shuddering all the while, Vilmah picked up her axe by the very end of the handle, and ran as fast as she could to a spigot in Brill. Once the water ran clear over the shiny metal of her slicing tool, she took out some spare linen and cleaned the rest of the human waste off of it. Feeling sick to her stomach from both the cleaning and the wound, Vilmah dried off her axe and headed back inside the inn.

“Room, please” she said bitterly, to the Forsaken inn keeper. The woman’s eyeless sockets made an expression of revulsion. “Ouch… you look like you could use some bandages!”

“Huh?” Vilmah turned to look into a hanging mirror, and nearly tripped over a chair when she saw her reflection. A deep purple and black bruise covered the wound in the back of her head, and spread all the way to her face, where it colored the area around her left eye, and strayed as far as the bottom of her jaw before it finally ended. Most of the skin around the bruising was puffy and swollen, which she realized had caused most of the throbbing she felt in her face. “Ugh… geez!! That guy did a number on me, alright.”

The inn keeper shook her head, and handed Vilmah a key. Upstairs she went, and collapsed into her bed. Feeling lonely, she took out her pet pig Pinky, who was now roughly the size of a kodo foot.

“You’re getting way too big, pig,” she said before falling asleep.