Role

Chapter 14

Once more a familiar scene plays out at the Eternal Star. Damil and Zicdorgle
are having a discussion about the Becoming. Damil is expressing her
displeasure with the whole idea and Zicdorgle is focused on his own
self-destructive tendencies. This is what bothers Damil. In her mind,
Zicdorgle becoming an undead is effective suicide. It is a corruption of who
he was and he is too reckless and unwise to see it.

During this spat, Erorm arrives and overhears the conversation. He offers his
opinion. As a paladin, it is no surprise he has a negative opinion. And Damil
agrees with the paladin's position. Erorm, so blinded by his own views,
never even notices that nor does he notice that Damil is already frustrated.
He attacks Zicdorgle, and Damil tosses him out of the establishment. The pair
starts yelling at each other, though Zicdorgle shuts up when she expresses
her displeasure.

But frustration and displeasure are such soft words for what Damil is
experiencing. She is furious. In this moment she wants to kill them both for
this feeling. She does not know why. Erorm starts talking to her. He tells
her if the Inn helps Zicdorgle in his quest to become an undead that she too
will experience the same wrath he brought down upon the necromancer. And it
all becomes clear.

She is in love with the necromancer as he is now, flaws and all. And when he
brings up his effective suicide, it hurts her on a deeper level than she
realized. She wants to prevent him from doing such a stupid thing. And when
Erorm interrupted with violence, she saw him as interfering with her attempts
to save Zicdorgle. They are both on the same side, and he's making it
worse! And threatening her? Erorm clearly doesn't realize the pain the
Herald would feel if she had to see Zicdorgle like that.

And with all of this, a flood of other feelings washed over the woman. The
dam was broken and her life is no longer as grey as she once perceived.