Role

Chapter 2

Saruzk silently watched from the shadows outside of the village, sure that
none had seen him in his actions. Anger and rage ever building within him as
he watched everyone run at the whim of the priestess, as if she was a god
herself. The hubris of such! To think that the line of Brightscales have
reigned as high priest and priestess of the village for so many generations
while his brood line were chase into the swamps. Yet while the rest of his
brood had always been sniveling cowards, Saruzk would prove his lineage. For
the whispers had promised him great things should he do their bidding, and
what they asked was not too difficult. All they wanted was the egg and in
return true power would be granted to him and his brood placed back into
power within the village.

Cloaked in the shadows, Saruzk slipped easily into the village during the
pitch of night. The trails were deserted and the noise from the swamp masking
his movement he soon found himself before the nest at the base of the shrine.
None of the Brightscales were awake or even around, for they were all
sleeping off the celebration which had occurred earlier in the night. Fools,
they proclaimed that this egg would be the salvation and yet this is how they
would guard their fate.

Snatching the egg, Saruzk made haste back the way he had came. A perfect
heist as none of the fools would ever know what had happened until it was too
late. Or so he thought. A shrill sounded in the night, one filled with panic
and anger which could only be from that of the high priestess. Others soon
echoed her call, and life started to surge within the village. Panic now
gripped Saruzk for he would not be able to evade an entire village for long
while carrying the egg. Deeper and deeper into the swamps he fled, driven by
sheer instinct for self-preservation. This damn egg would be the death of him
and not the boon which he thought, and into the swamp muck he discarded the
egg. Into the darkness Saruzk fled, leaving behind in his wake both chaos and
the egg. Yet there the egg would sit undiscovered by any in pursuit.