Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-26184570-20160601004832/@comment-26084195-20160603043646

Elana deflected Ravashak's bolt of shadow, and it flew back. As he dispelled it she aunched a kinetic burst and kocked him off his feet, sending his staff flying.

Satisfied that Ravashak was unconscious for the moment, she turned to aid Roland, only to be locked in place by several billowing balls of darkness. To her dismay, she saw Roland's head lying in the snow, thoroughly seperated from his body. Vladak's hand was held aloft, maintaining the spell that locked her in place. Mortu with his axe dripping with blood stood just behind his master.

With dismay, she realised that there was no way out. She closed her eyes and waited for her soul to be wrenched from her body by some sordid black magic.

And she waited. And she waited. She opened her eyes again, and no one had moved.

"What are you doing?" She demanded.

Vladak's arm dropped. She fell to her knees in the snow. "What...?"

Vladak, without making a motion, caused an item to levitate out of the snow. A golden amulet in the shape of a triangle with some sort of flaming eye inside. It floated right over and landed in front of her. "Take it." Vladak said. "Take it and go."

She was very hesitant. "What is it?"

"That is an Eye of Vladak. If you wear that around your neck, none of my forces will harm you in any way. You can pass safely through my army. Go back to Ariel, or wherever you'd like. Just leave from this place."

She tentatively picked up the amulet and placed it around her neck. "Why? Why would you do this?"

Vladak stood there for a moment, looking at her with his malign red eyes. But, maybe not quite so malign now. "I know quite a bit more about death than you, Priestess. When a mortal dies, he or she must climb a mountain, carrying with them everything they have put out ino the world. For more than a century I have put death and fear and pain and destruction out into the world. Perhaps, Elana, I'd like to add a dash of mercy to that mix."