Darkness fell upon me with little chance of light. The sounds long since taken for granted, seem some how unnatural. Things that I did everyday take more care than I’m used to. The nights are the worst, that is if I can tell if it is night. Years of travel and now every little noise, little bump in the night scares me.
The others, I can’t let them know how scared I really am. I mean this scares me more that Sir could ever. But with all the trouble this group seems to be generating, it will be surprising if we all get out of this alive.
The only good from this is now I can think and ponder; stories I heard, people and places I’ve seen. Stories...there was a story that our traveling bard used to tell, about old Demon eyes. A man of very few word, and great skill with a sword. Many battles he fought, men he defeated, until one day he lost to a sword master. A sword sage I believe. Anyway, it was in this fight that he lost his right eye. Declaring revenge, he traveled to a plane (no clue which one), and undergo some strange progress and making a deal with the devil. Once he returned he seek out the Sword sage, hunting them down, but the Devil had other plans and he had to put aside his revenge, for work. For now he had a large debt to pay and a contract. He grew in his craft but dreamed of the day he would get his revenge.
The day came but in a way he didn’t expect. The Sword sage was old and dying. He used his demon eye and killed the old man out right, but it was of little effect. His anger did not relinquish with the passing of the sword sage but once he learned of students that learn under the sage, he chose to destroy the old man’s work. To this day Demon eye is still at it.
(please note that Rekka is telling this wrong. the Demon eye guy died hundreds of years ago, killed the same day that the Sword sage did. It took all he had just to reach the old man, surrounded by academy of Swordsmen and woman. he might have gotten to the Old man but the students took out old demon eye.)
The point to me is the fact he got his eye fixed not by restoring it, but by replacing it. There are only two in the group that I can talk with about this. The bard Jessica and the newly acquired horse that could talk but now can’t without help of a magical item. Talked with Jessica and the horse. There is some hope of finding a person that could do the graft. I don’t want to tell the rest of the group.
Due to information that Billy absorbed, the very people who can do the graft are same that wish to find me. Once more hope seems to be dashed from me. This is when Cortanna and myself exchanged some very harsh words. Both of us could not handle what was happening to us. The group of adults stunned and unsure what to do with us did nothing. I myself: angry, depressed, and wishing for no company spent the day in the wagon hiding. It wasn’t until the next day when for some reason I felt a little better and then the strangest thing happened. I could “see” things. Not well, mostly bits of color and blob like shapes.
I worried that this was a bad sign, that Ajara’s fears of me being taken over was coming to pass. This sight came and went as I tried to understand it. The group went about finding more information the werewolves that were still about. We saved some dwarves and goblins (I think), and defeated an ooze, Ajara using my dagger so she could cast her spells through it. Isaac did something but i couldn't see it. Cortanna found a passage way that lead deep under us, into a cave. The group claimed that we were walking through magical darkness, but I soon notice that we weren’t moving and was able to see those around us were moving in place expect Billy. Now I wasn’t sure if what I was see was the world around me or some other place so called out to Billy asking if he was moving. He remarked that he was keeping up with Isaac, being a normal undead. I then called to Isaac and clued him in that Billy wasn’t moving at all. Unsure as to how I was able to detect this, Isaac order Billy forward and it work.
Then a battle, in which I was able to see the flying creatures, insured. Ajara badly injured fell to the ground. but then Issac saved her by switching places. As we tried to heal her nothing happened. the group decided to head back out of the cave and get Gideon. once he arrived he did his best but nothing worked. then Isaac figure out what was wrong with her and removed a ring she had just put on. with the Dwarves we headed back to the cave and continued through. that when we found this unbelievable, huge magic device. A device that would allow us to travel through to other planes, and allow others to travel here.
Now a choice is to be made, send horse back to her home or ask her to stay. and what to do with the device.
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