Role

Chapter 2

Lmewrca was his name. He was the sixth person to turn a hallway corner. That'
was it, pure chance. She wanted to taste killing for her own desire, and so she
simply set a number and voila! Her victim. It took two months for her to come
up with a perfect plan. The time, the place, the magic, it was not easy. But
no one is better than Czorzhinka, and in time she was ready. The day came and
without even a second's hesitation or a bead of sweatch, it was done. Success.
Her satisfaction was extreme.

It did not last long. It turns out Czorzhinka is not actually perfect, and
as good as she thinks she is. Not but two days later a knock came at her door.
A knock that was followed by a throwing open of her door without waiting even
a second for permission to enter. Guards, directed by her mother, swarmed in and
grabbed her - grabbed her! - and proceeded to frog-march her in her underclothes
and with no word other than harsh instructions to be silent and not resist.
Her hands and mouth were bound to prevent any spellcasting, and soon she stood on
the wrong side of a door of mithril bars, impenetrable to her.

Things moved quickly then. Within hours she was before her Grandmother. Who spit
upon her as a fool. Banished her from the City. And, as a reminder that she is
no longer related to the Matron Mother, painful magic was used to transform
Czhorhinka's face. No longer does she look like anyone in her family. Now, she
looks like a common beggar. By dawn the next day she finds herself in the
unforgiving wilderness of the underdark, the patrollers from her city giving her
nothing but scorn as they watch her slink by. Oh the shame!

Of course, in her mind, it was not her failure. It was someone else's fault, or
simple chance, and nothing has changed in her self-overconfidence. Instead, she
now sees herself on a bit of a crusade. She will change her environment. She
has seen how her own people are just as shackled as the so-called people of the
"light". They think they are bound to act as others determine, they think they
are unable to show who they are, to live their own lives. Czhorzhinka will
be the example for them. And of course the best teaching tool is death through
magic. It incorporates ability, intelligence, strength, cunning, self-knowledge,
and of course power. It is perfect. As is she. At least in her own mind...