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Dragon's Blood
by Vivian Darkbloom
"The war you propose to declare is absurd."
A thin sliver of afternoon sunlight slicing across stale, musty
atmosphere accented the tense silence in the room as I faced the
men seated around the dark wooden table, whose impatient
expressions flew across at me with unbridled hostility.
King George cocked his head with jaunty swagger. "Our wizard
propostulates a differing view," whimsically he tossed the
pretentiously defiant grammar into the terrible discussion.
"You think it's funny," I said quietly, quivering with rage. "But
you have no idea how much death and suffering you will cause,
simply because you cling to the foolish notions that, the more
gold you hoard the happier you will become, or that the bards
will sing your name more loudly the larger your empire is."
Several of his sycophants laughed, mocking me.
"Fine. Don't listen to me. You'll squander all of the Kingdom's
resources on this foolish and unnecessary quest, and the entire
populace will wind up in poverty. All because you can't stand to
think there's a piece of land where the people don't fly your
ridiculous flag. There is absolutely no reason for this
unprovoked aggression."
King George cocked his head once more. "Guards, would you care to
escort our wizard back to his tower, so we may carry on with our
discussion of plans for war?"
Two heavily armored guards, clomped over to me, each with heavy
swords on his belt. They reached out to take my arm, but I deftly
evaded their grasp, resisting the urge to paralyze them
completely, instead just throwing them off balance a bit with
gesture of my gnarled old oak wand, so that they klonked heads as
they closed in on the spot where I had been.
"Dare not touch me!" I hissed. "And there's no need to force my
departure. My distaste for this discussion is sufficient to merit
my absence from it. May your conversation be as bereft of
intelligence as your puny conscience, and the minescule lump of
worthless rock that you call a heart. Good day!" I spun around to
shove open the dark heavy studded swinging doors to stride out
the passageway back to the tower.
The two knights in shining armor followed on my heels. "Better
disarm him," said one.
"Right. We'll have the wand," said the other.
It was my turn to display whimsy. The superstitious imbeciles
believed that the wand was the source of my power. "Fine," I
said. "Don't drop it!" I flung it at him so that he almost would.
But he triumphantly wrapped his thick stubby fingers around it
and smiled faintly as we strode through the corridors.
Shortly, the smile began to fade as he walked, and he began to
look back furtively, the haunted expression of one pursued by
shadows, flitting darkness that grew blacker and more menacing
with each moment. Soon he collapsed against the plaster-covered
stone wall, armor clanked on the flagstones, eyes unseeing, as
the wand fell with a clatter. "No!" he screamed in terror.
A noble-lady and her young boy brushed by, and she worriedly
ushered his curious gaze along out of sight.
The other knight shouted at me. "Stop it! What are you doing to
him?" He seized the wand. "Stop it, now!"
I shrugged. "I didn't do a thing," I said honestly. "He wanted to
hold the wand. One cannot escape the consequences of facing the
power of magic with an impure heart."
"Right. Now keep walking!" he brandished my wand at me
threateningly.
"You're just going to leave him there?" I asked, half-smiling.
"The king ordered me to escort you to the tower. Don't make me do
anything unpleasant!"
I shrugged and continued on my way.
In less than a minute, the second guard was cowering in fear from
unseen ghosts swooping down from every direction. "No!" Again
(fortunately sturdy) wand clattered to the ground as the knight
fell.
Carefully, I picked it up once more, leaning on it as I stood
over him. "You fought in the battle against the Clymerians,
didn't you. Slaughtering innocent unarmed villagers must take its
toll."
"But we brought peace and freedom to their land!" he protested,
still shivering, flinching, eyes blind to the alarmed passersby.
I clucked, with a trace of genuine sympathy.
A merchant stepped forward from his storefront. "What should we
do? What's wrong with him?"
I could restrain the disgust from my voice no longer. "Oh, don't
worry. He'll be alright. He may experience some trouble engaging
further in senseless killing, that's all."
I left the worried merchant puzzling over the collapsed knight,
and returned to my lair.
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