For the Love of All That's Holy... by Miz'ri | World Anvil
14 Spring's Evening, 300 E.A.

For the Love of All That's Holy...

by Swordsmaster Miz'ri Baenre

Father always said that it was smarter not to get into a fight with a barbarian, but he had probably never met a barbarian that just pissed him off so much...I know that she's excited but dammit, we're going to a place that I left on purpose and here we are running toward the Underdark likes its a fucking play date in the Elven Forest. At least our casters take this seriously, but I haven't seen a serious sentence out of Khalsinn since we arrived on this godforsaken rock and she told us the bad news.
 
Truth be told, the news she had wasn't bad, it was actually really good for us. The one time I went out with those morons, I thought I would end up busting the party's heads instead of the people we were looking for, but that's a different story. I hate to be angry at her, but we're going to the Underdark, and that makes me really uncomfortable, even if we won't be anywhere near Eryndlyn. I never want to see the gate or the spires again. I left for the surface and a new life and now I'm getting drug back into the same shit that we left.
 
The bright side is that we weren't contracted by Drow. This can hopefully be a drama free outpost, meaning that it doesn't have any of those damned Underdark politics with it. I can only hope and trust that Reinys knows what the hell she is doing and won't throw me under the lizard cart to sate some grand idea of hers.
 
...I guess my anger has gotten the better of me. Of all the people in the world that I should trust with no doubt is these three. Khalsinn has seen my life in the Underdark, has met my family. She knows the pain this causes me. The other two, theirs is a life built on their faith and their conviction, not so different from Matron Zilvra, but they have chosen a path of order and camaraderie, something so far from the chaos that the matrons practice. If the Underdark could ever be my home again, it would be through this outpost we are creating.
 
It is so odd to think about the idea of sisters in arms. Eryndlyn never held a future like that for me. My magic is pitiful at best, but here I am accepted for who I am, not what I'm expected to be. Guess I'll go with it and see if we can do our own thing in the tunnels.

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