Traitor in the Midst

-Written in Wyrmish(Draconic)-
First Antday of Incandescent Moons, 570
 
Me an' Conrad woke up to someone emulatin' my shoutin'. Is that really what I sound like? Much of the fight is a blur again, when I get in a fight I start to jus' lose myself to my anger. I saw a strange aberration in my rage, a monster cloaked in darkness that riled me up like no other. After I attacked it it jest disappeared. After I came back to I realized we'd lost one o' the turtle men. Sure, maybe I lost myself a bit too much, but to me I'd let another innocent die, I KNEW where they'd come from dammit! That damn hole in their pools, I coulda said somethin' but I thought nothin' of it! If I had jest said somethin' maybe we coulda saved Dyur. I couldn't even offer my condolences properly, all I could do was scold Baka for their naivety as Cybil told me we didn't really have the time to cry over it. She wasn't wrong, but I don't think she understands how different this coulda been if I had said somethin'. Same goes for Ashe, takin' the monster's side over my own. I thought me an' her were startin' to get along, but ever since this mission started it's been "idiot this " and "idiot that". It's like I offer no real assistance to this motley crew. We left immediately, sleep deprived, in a chase to save Xopa an' Olo. I wasn't gonna let another turtle die on my watch.
 
Late in the afternoon we'd caught up with the lizard bastards. They were set up in some camp just down stream. It looked somewhat fortified, but they weren't willing to just attack us outright even though it seemed they were aware of our presence. I told the party we'd have to move soon if we wanted to save those guys, no way they weren't already on the verge o' death. Everyone else told them I was pushin' 'em too hard. Mentioned how they needed to sleep first. I just... I couldn't believe it, I figured the devil herself would agree, but we had to save those people. I begrudgingly agreed to take a breather, but I was scared shitless. Were more innocent people gonna die jest cause we needed some beauty sleep? And once again, my points seemed inconsequential. Either I'm working with a team of cutthroats, or they're all more naive than I thought. Besides that Monster. She only cared about gettin' the job done, who cares 'bout the casualties amiright? I swear to The Mother, if we lost those two I wouldn't have let them off so easily anymore.
 
After the break we beat the shit out o' the lizard bastards and pushed into the smelliest, most disgustin' cave you ever thought existed. Inside was Grr's true form, a demon apparently called a Hez...rau or somethin'. Turned on his own mates for Patrons know what reason. Ashe and Conrad got into a good position and we flanked the bastard, the rest of the fight is a blur again, but afterwards I was pretty beat up. I remember givin' Xopa and Olo a stern talkin' to while Conrad helped the both of them out. I mentioned that we could take Olo back with us and get him healed up, to which Xopa agreed. Seemed he was pretty distraught about the whole damn thing but I think that's a good thing, if they don't ever learn from their mistakes they're destined to repeat them.
 
We went back to their caves, and headed back to base. It's the Second Reverenday of Incandescent Moons now, and Kas already has a big job for us. I'm not particularly excited, I'm startin' to believe the party jest doesn't like me to be frank. I suppose we'll see in the coming week.