Ratni Čekić
srijeda, 06.03.2013.
Bretonnia (warband) background story part 2: Jaws of the night
Another day on the road. Another night under a clear sky, far away from the comforts of my castle. I should probably be worried by the events that unfolded. I should maybe feel some doubt in myself and my abilities. Yet the event did only one thing, and that is to harden my resolve. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
We travelled for days until we stumbled upon an abandoned house. Its doors were barely holding themselves in their hinges.
I let Torgar break those doors down, only to be rewarded by a female scream.
There was a woman inside, huddling in a dark corner. She seemed frightened and hungry. But at least she was clean. She must have been one of the nobles as I could well see nobility in her features. Besides, she reminded me of someone I once knew.
I managed to calm down the lady, thinking nothing of it when she rejected to come into the sunlight. What a fool I was. Yet the Lady preserved us once more. But I’m getting ahead of myself again.
We gave her food and water, yet she rejected our kindness. We thought she was too scared to eat. Well, we Bretonnians thought that in any case. The red haired lunatic wanted to cleave her head and be done with it, and I barely managed to restrain him. His brother did not move a thing. ‘What savages’ I thought then. How wrong I was. For as soon as the sun set behind the trees, she seemed to grow stronger, and her demeanor changed. No longer was she scared little girl, too afraid to eat a crumb of bread. She was tall, pale and arrogant like the noble from the Empire or Bretonnia when I think about it. Suddenly, she thanked us for bringing her dinner. The way words slithered over her tongue awoke some fear within me. And rightly so, for as she knelt beside me with a strange look in her eyes I felt my will sag, and bend to her own as I was taken by a surprise. A Vampire, this scared little woman. And yet I could not move as her mind-claws already embedded themselves in my psyche. Then she changed, right in front of my eyes. Her jaws opened to much for a mortal being, and she jumped forward to embed them in my exposed neck. Luckily for me, that lunatic was close by and her head ended, not on my neck but under my feet. While the body still stood for a moment before toppling, as well.
Humbling experience, yet it showed me two things. Darkness will never prevail, and the Lady will always take care of her faithful.
