Role

Chapter 7

So sweet. Like velvet sugar wrapped in pure satisfaction. That was the taste of
her first mageslay. Eylia was the magefilth's name. Changed into some rodent, a marmot or
something. A fitting thing, a mage showing its true ratlike self. Did it no good though. And
it felt better than anything in her whole life, watching the light leave the eyes. The blood leak.
But what made it truly special, and what made the next kills as well, was that she did it
herself. Stalking, following, watching, hunting the prey. Hours and days of training
coming to fruition. Never again will she be weak as she was. Never again will she be duped by the
magefilth, listen to their lies, their words, their slaves. She will flaunt her curse, throw
it back in their faces, faces that will gasp with shock as their last breaths leave their frail
bodies. Thus, she does not speak to or listen to mages, ever. She hones herself inside and
out to be a thing of deadly beauty, something the mages will both fear and envy, as she hunts
them and their cronies. She will never again need to rely on someone, and never agail fail to
act when she can. She does not view it the same as some of her new comrades seem to, like
the drillmaster, as she would think nothing of depriving any mage of anything of value it
might have, simply to hurt the mage, to exact just that much more revenge on all of them.
In short, she will make herself as strong as the hardest mithril, adamantite, steel. She will not
break. She is somewhat broken in spirit perhaps, in that she does not play well with others
all the time, a result of her trauma. But it is not debilitating or overwhelming. Just something
that comes out sometimes. And she has no conception of honor as others call it. It's not
about that or that sort of thing. She fights her own fights because she saw what happens when you
can't take care of yourself. And she has enough pride now to want others to stay out of her way.
Her strength and knowledge grows, her path as the scout a testament to her desire and aptitude
at seeking out and finding out what must be learned. More to come...