This is the same day as my entries 46 and 47, my story continues of how
we are freeing the captives from the Lady Caldwell's house...
I
am relieved that Trevor is fine and among us, as his solo trip to scout
the house was not his demise. I worried too much about. But he is only
half here, as I can hear his voice, but not see him. Turning my
attention to the injured, I call upon the Light to save the man that
fell moments ago trying to kill me, for if given the chance, he can do
some good. I talk to Brute about Kull's behavior with the driver, but
Brute replies that everyone in the house is guilty and must die. Kull
agrees. I do not like their answers and they disregard the laws. Were
the men we fought just servants acting on orders? We hear more people
coming closer and we must move. We choose down the stairs. I leave the
unconscious man and follow.
The stairs open to a large basement
room with five doors. Kull destroys a large black abomination of the
witch that broke through a strong metal door. We already fought this
before in the crypt of the mansion. Brute manages to stop more guards
from entering the room from the stairs. Seeing how the room is now safe
for me to move, I make my way to the doorway where the statue came
from. Ohm Uri entered this room earlier, slipping past Kull fighting
the statue. Then I hear a high pitched loud scream from a man. Is it
Ohm Uri? Or Trevor, with him invisible, I don't know where he is? Then
the scream is silent. My heart skips a beat.
All is forgotten
when I see the cruelty done to humanity in this torture chamber. I
fight a sickening feeling. Cages are in places around the room. My
first thought: who would do such a thing? People both alive and dead
are in the cages. The smell of decaying flesh, urine and feces are
overwhelming. Some people look tortured, and their skin hangs loosely
over their skeletons, void of muscle and tissue.
Then a most
strange sight, a body of the masked man prone on the floor, his hands
clutching between his legs, his throat cut. And a very bloody Ohm Uri
chasing after a set of floating keys, unlocking cage after cage. Trevor
is alive and well, and doing the best he can to help. But the captives
are held in fear of this new vision of Ohm Uri, bloodied after his
knife cut the last life from another defenseless man.
Knowing
Trevor is fine, I turn back to see how Brute and Kull are doing before I
focus on helping the captives. Surprisingly, Brute charges towards me
and I narrowly jump out of the way. He has an unnatural fear expressed
on his face. Then I see Kull go down fighting, surrounded by the
witch's guards. Kull has saved me numerous times and I must try to save
him. I would be cut down before I could get to him, so a diversion is
necessary. Then I see the Lady Caldwell. She is certainly the
instigator, behaving more like a witch than a proper lady. She must be
stopped. I rationalize that the Light will be accepting of my next
action. The raw power is there, waiting for me. If I can distract
them, they will not desecrate the body of Kull and I can revive him
later. I thrust the raw energy towards her and close my eyes.
I
get her attention! And the guard's. Kull is safe for a little while
longer. Then she reaches out to me with her witchcraft. A strange
effect causes my body to warm and to pull my skin from my bones towards
her. I rely on my training of the divine to resist this diabolical
attack. Then it stops and I am fine. Brute is now back. He kills a
guard, allowing me to get to Kull. I put myself between the inhuman and
its victim, and call upon the Light. The witch reaches out to strike
me in the back, for I rob her of her prey. I focus. I do not feel any
effect of attack. Kull lost much of his blood, and I am not sure if he
is alive or dead. To my relief, the Light restores life into
Kull. Some of his pure spilled life force gathers back into his
body. The wounds close and muscles rejoin. In moments he gets back up
to help.
Brute seizes the vial creature so she cannot fight or
work her craft. Just then a maid enters the basement from the
stairs. More strange than the floating keys, the maid claims to be Ohm
Uri. The maid continues to state that a mirror possesses people and we
must get the other Ohm Uri and the witch back to it. Brute takes
control of this. Without hesitation I take charge of the
captives. They are tortured, sick, frighten, shocked, and more may die
if not helped quickly.
Trevor stays with me. I remove the ring
and he is visible again. When I see him again, a relief comes over me,
of a burden lifted. He does not notice my concern when I see a poor
attempt to create a bandage covering a wound on his side. How noble of
him to not mention his own injury. I am beginning to trust Trevor
more. He has honored my request to refrain from using the ring, unless I
allow it. He also kept my secret. He helps where he can, and he does
not kill the defenseless. If only he could follow the path of the Light
and donate time to help. After stabilizing the surviving captives, I
check his wound. Suddenly, an image of the masked man's open throat
wound appears, how grotesque. I shake the chilly vision away.
As
I plan the move of the captives to my temple and the dead for a viewing
for relatives, I think of my explanation to my superior of my
absence. I act in the interest of the Light and to the best of my
abilities. I will state the delicate issue of council members being
involved with the witch, and my superior would help in serving
justice. She would stress that I am not out of trouble, and would still
show reservations of my use of sorcery. If she does not pose a
punishment, then I most certainly will upon myself, for I made a
resolution to not use sorcery. Most importantly, my friends have
actions that conflict with mine and when I have reasoned with them they
agree, but in the moment of anger and fighting, they loose memory of
their promise.
I turn to Trevor. "Can you help me get the survivors to my temple? We will need as many as we can get."
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