"Prisoners of the Sanctified" | Guiscard, Sukoshi
little song10/21/2019
“Well. That’s probably enough for now,” Ayla puts down her tools. “I’m hungry. See you two after dinner I guess.”
Sukoshi chained to the wall. Just closes his eyes and takes a deep breath.
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Doc: “Oi! We done already?”
little song10/21/2019 “For a bit. He should be fine. The heat cauterizes the wounds.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Guiscard is calm, he understands there was little he could do. He is gagged. Tourin: “When we do come back, we'll make him talk,” Says determined. Tourin and Doc exit the cell. Tourin waits for Ayla.
little song10/21/2019 Looks to Guiscard. Smiles and takes out the gag.
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 He glares at her.
little song10/21/2019 “In case you want two want to talk.” Leaves but quietly tells a guard to stay close and listen.
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Guard squeaks the cell closed. Guiscard looks on at Sukoshi. “Are you awake? If you can hear me, don't move, just relax.” Realizes its probably no help.
little song10/21/2019 “I’m fine.” Voice monotone and emotionless.
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Hurts to see him in pain, as his friend, but also because of his resemblance to Kashi. "Indeed, it seems you are graced with a respite." Looks about at the amount of blood on the cell floor. Sukoshi's wound is fresh, attracting pests.
little song10/21/2019 “Are you okay?”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 In his thoughts. “What do I even think about first? There is much to ponder...out there a world that that needs me, before me a bleeding friend. Which is more important to Elyon? Give me sacrifice Elyon, to stop thinking of her so much. It would be forbidden nonetheless, so please- wait...stop!” Looks to Sukoshi speaks. “If only I could be unchained at this moment.” Guard shifts position, finding their talk dull.
little song10/21/2019 “Yeah. I’d like that too.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “I feel fortunate that the enemy found need to keep you alive-” Guard: “The dog lives for now. “What the Master starts cannot be undone.” Guiscard remembers his dream...war in Ashnuw, Pale's most faithful. Rattles his chains.
little song10/21/2019 “What does that mean?”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Guard: “It means your all doomed! “Why would you resist?”
little song10/21/2019 “Does it seem like I am?”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Guard: “But you will die unclean like this...” Grabs bars. “Repent now, before it's too late.” Guiscard glares at the guard. “Eager to escape are you?” “He is saying Pale is coming, and my Brother has begun the process of saving everyone.”
little song10/21/2019 “Though it seems the crime I must repent of is being a kokkan.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Guard: “You took from us this great man gestures to Guiscard.”
little song10/21/2019 Sigh. “Just know that none of this is your fault.” Looks over. “And I can take it.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Sigh of relief.
little song10/21/2019 Coughs.
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Speaks as though quoting a person? Or a scripture. “You answer my question before my lips find their expression.”
little song10/21/2019 Half smile. “But seriously are you alright. Watching is sometimes worse than experiencing.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “For the first time in my life, I have peace… “It's disturbing me.”
little song10/21/2019 ... “Well... “I’m... ... “Glad?”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “I am disturbed because those I...” Swallows. “Those I love are in danger, yet it seems foolish to worry. I feel as though we will be free, and on our way to stopping this evil. I believe I will see your sister again. “And that this evil has run it's cup full, and will soon fall against the stones.”
little song10/21/2019 “You sound like a prophet.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “But I feel this, whilst in chains. “I am no prophet...I do not know where this is coming from, but...I did meet a man whose words have taken hold. I wouldn't call him a prophet, but he could see a person's soul.”
little song10/21/2019 “Donindor?”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “No. Well, he helped too. “This man was sick, plagued by an incurable disease, my people call such men Wanderers, for there is no where they can go. Their suffering is intolerable, and yet, this man never doubted. He was as brave as a knight, and he was six years my junior.”
little song10/21/2019 “Sometimes they are the bravest.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “I feel the same as he did, more than I ever have before.” Looks at him. “We are going to make Sukoshi. We will. I need not tell you to be brave, but...well, hang in there.”
little song10/21/2019 “... I don’t really care. Right now I just don’t want to think too much. But it’s good you have hope I guess.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “How much do you know of Ely-?” BANG on bars. Guard: “That's enough you two...unless your ready to confess or give us what we want.”
little song10/21/2019 Looks at him. Death glare.. “Don’t worry about my soul Guiscard. I’m fine.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “I wasn’t going to ask that...I meant more...well, I meant how much teaching have you received? Do you attend any type of a service?”
little song10/21/2019 “Yeah. I have for about four months.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “That is good...yes very good.”
little song10/27/2019 “I assume you do.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “The Order has been my teacher.”
little song10/27/2019 “And yet... this is the order as well...?”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Spits.
little song10/27/2019 “Is it not?”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “Do I seem to you like I would act as they? “But...” Bows head. “I suppose the idea is within us. “Otherwise it would not have arisen. “I never saw such a flaw before.”
little song10/27/2019 “You are passionate. But no. I don’t think you would be damning a people because they look different. Or incessantly trying to kill a girl because she came from a different land. “And Kokka... “Is gone.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Head rises up. “WHAT!?” Guard chuckles.
little song10/27/2019 “I just assumed... “That blast.” Looks at the guard.
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guiscard: Head goes back. “Of course...my brother is a man of his word, if you delivered your sister, killed his men...I see now.” Guard: “You had your chance Kokkan.”
little song10/27/2019 Dry heaves.
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: “Don't say we don't have mercy. I believe the Master would put it as "We had all the power to destroy, yet we refrained. We had the power to damn the world, and yet offered a path." Guiscard: “That doesn't conflict with your previous oaths? To defend people?” Guard: “To defend Elyons people!”
little song10/27/2019 “I don’t see restraint. “I don’t see mercy. Or a path. Only damnation.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: “But it's obvious to us who are sanctified.” Guiscard: “Sukoshi, I don't want to listen to him. “It's shameful to hear my brothers fallen so much.”
little song10/27/2019 “I would rather hear him than my thoughts. “I understand.” Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: Looks between them, anger in his eyes. “Well listen to me! Cause your not going anywhere...except to eternal torment! The pure in heart have no doubts, the pure in mind never question. You Guiscard failed Elyon the day you let that witch tempt you off the path.”
little song10/27/2019 “Why is my sister a witch?! You don’t know anything about her!”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guiscard: Looks sternly at Guard. Guard: “I know things, I hear what happens, and what happened was this man allowed the touch of a woman! His purity compromised! He allowed it to let him keep things from us, eventually betray us! She bewitched him, and for that I hope she burns.”
little song10/27/2019 “Looks over to Guiscard.. What is he talking about?”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: “Tell him scum! Admit your sin!” In his mind, Guiscard knows he must make a choice...love or loyalty...His mind clears and he speaks with confidence. “Your sister...she is...a good teacher.”
little song10/27/2019 ... blinks.
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “Never before had I seen the hypocrisy of my life...of- of my- even that which I took as firm tradition.”
little song10/27/2019 “Oh... okay. “But like...” Cough.
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard clenches bar. Guiscard tightens fists. “Yes.… “I do.”
little song10/27/2019 “Okay. “But you were honorable with your dealings with her? “Because I mean I’m probably useless now but if I survive this and I find out you hurt her you are going to wish you never knew her.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: “The guilt is on his face!” Guiscard: Ignores, looks at Sukoshi, utters sternly “...never would I intend her harm.”
little song10/27/2019 Looks back at him. Nods. “I trust you.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Nods. “Thank you.” Guard headdesks against the bar, shakes his head. “Why why why.”
little song10/27/2019 “Maybe because your not looking. Do you think I hate Eylon. Because I’ve never done or said anything to make any of you think that!”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: “No! But you have not been vigilant, and you serve Kings who are willingly blind, and do nothing to stop Pale, haven't done anything to stop him, and because of you, a lazy servant, our world is in jeapordy.” Guiscard: Guiscard looks at the Guard sternly. “Listen to the Kokkan. When you stand before Elyon what will he see? ‘Thou camest but not with others? What have thou brought back from the desert unto my well?’”
little song10/27/2019 “Fine. But I don’t think pale was attacking until recently. “And I can’t fight anymore thanks to you all.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: Their words startle him...but he reacts in anger, and patrols away a short distance.
little song10/27/2019 Small smirk.
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guiscard: Smiles, “Ever heard that passage before?”
little song10/27/2019 “Actually no.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “Ah yes...it is little taught or remembered. At least it's true meaning.”
little song10/27/2019 “What’s it from?”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “A famous theologian, from Tir Cendel of all places, recites this parable from an older text first told to my people before we were Vachelous. It is about a man who goes to a well to fill his house, and he must travel through a desert to reach it. When he returns home his Master rebukes him because the servant was so determined to get the Water that he left behind others in the desert who were thirsty.”
little song10/27/2019 “Interesting”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “These men do not realize that the thirsty are the ones they are slaughtering. They need to be saved from their butchery, so they can be evangelized. “I fear if perhaps I could have been driven to be one of them? I was so eager for death...but your sister stopped me, and that changed everything.”
little song10/27/2019 “They’re killing ones that have water as well.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “Yes...yes I know. “Your right. “I don't know why...they'd tolerated different peoples before, but I suppose their desperation drove them to look for anything to discriminate as for pruning.”
little song10/27/2019 “Kokka is human though. We just have different eyes.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “But the population, according to my understanding, is largely Unbelievers?”
little song10/27/2019 “Yeah. “People from other kingdoms rarely come to us. “Except to kidnap our artisans.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “When we get out, and Kokka is indeed destroyed...where will your people turn to?”
little song10/27/2019 “Do you think some survived”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “My brother told me how powerful it is...I don't know.”
little song10/27/2019 “Tradition is life to Kokka. They would probably try to rebuild. “And strange. I knew I could never go back. I almost hated what it gave me. Yet I feel empty knowing that it might be gone”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Doc: “Oi! We done already?”
little song10/21/2019 “For a bit. He should be fine. The heat cauterizes the wounds.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Guiscard is calm, he understands there was little he could do. He is gagged. Tourin: “When we do come back, we'll make him talk,” Says determined. Tourin and Doc exit the cell. Tourin waits for Ayla.
little song10/21/2019 Looks to Guiscard. Smiles and takes out the gag.
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 He glares at her.
little song10/21/2019 “In case you want two want to talk.” Leaves but quietly tells a guard to stay close and listen.
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Guard squeaks the cell closed. Guiscard looks on at Sukoshi. “Are you awake? If you can hear me, don't move, just relax.” Realizes its probably no help.
little song10/21/2019 “I’m fine.” Voice monotone and emotionless.
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Hurts to see him in pain, as his friend, but also because of his resemblance to Kashi. "Indeed, it seems you are graced with a respite." Looks about at the amount of blood on the cell floor. Sukoshi's wound is fresh, attracting pests.
little song10/21/2019 “Are you okay?”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 In his thoughts. “What do I even think about first? There is much to ponder...out there a world that that needs me, before me a bleeding friend. Which is more important to Elyon? Give me sacrifice Elyon, to stop thinking of her so much. It would be forbidden nonetheless, so please- wait...stop!” Looks to Sukoshi speaks. “If only I could be unchained at this moment.” Guard shifts position, finding their talk dull.
little song10/21/2019 “Yeah. I’d like that too.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “I feel fortunate that the enemy found need to keep you alive-” Guard: “The dog lives for now. “What the Master starts cannot be undone.” Guiscard remembers his dream...war in Ashnuw, Pale's most faithful. Rattles his chains.
little song10/21/2019 “What does that mean?”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Guard: “It means your all doomed! “Why would you resist?”
little song10/21/2019 “Does it seem like I am?”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Guard: “But you will die unclean like this...” Grabs bars. “Repent now, before it's too late.” Guiscard glares at the guard. “Eager to escape are you?” “He is saying Pale is coming, and my Brother has begun the process of saving everyone.”
little song10/21/2019 “Though it seems the crime I must repent of is being a kokkan.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Guard: “You took from us this great man gestures to Guiscard.”
little song10/21/2019 Sigh. “Just know that none of this is your fault.” Looks over. “And I can take it.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Sigh of relief.
little song10/21/2019 Coughs.
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 Speaks as though quoting a person? Or a scripture. “You answer my question before my lips find their expression.”
little song10/21/2019 Half smile. “But seriously are you alright. Watching is sometimes worse than experiencing.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “For the first time in my life, I have peace… “It's disturbing me.”
little song10/21/2019 ... “Well... “I’m... ... “Glad?”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “I am disturbed because those I...” Swallows. “Those I love are in danger, yet it seems foolish to worry. I feel as though we will be free, and on our way to stopping this evil. I believe I will see your sister again. “And that this evil has run it's cup full, and will soon fall against the stones.”
little song10/21/2019 “You sound like a prophet.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “But I feel this, whilst in chains. “I am no prophet...I do not know where this is coming from, but...I did meet a man whose words have taken hold. I wouldn't call him a prophet, but he could see a person's soul.”
little song10/21/2019 “Donindor?”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “No. Well, he helped too. “This man was sick, plagued by an incurable disease, my people call such men Wanderers, for there is no where they can go. Their suffering is intolerable, and yet, this man never doubted. He was as brave as a knight, and he was six years my junior.”
little song10/21/2019 “Sometimes they are the bravest.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “I feel the same as he did, more than I ever have before.” Looks at him. “We are going to make Sukoshi. We will. I need not tell you to be brave, but...well, hang in there.”
little song10/21/2019 “... I don’t really care. Right now I just don’t want to think too much. But it’s good you have hope I guess.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “How much do you know of Ely-?” BANG on bars. Guard: “That's enough you two...unless your ready to confess or give us what we want.”
little song10/21/2019 Looks at him. Death glare.. “Don’t worry about my soul Guiscard. I’m fine.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “I wasn’t going to ask that...I meant more...well, I meant how much teaching have you received? Do you attend any type of a service?”
little song10/21/2019 “Yeah. I have for about four months.”
Yankee Samarai10/21/2019 “That is good...yes very good.”
little song10/27/2019 “I assume you do.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “The Order has been my teacher.”
little song10/27/2019 “And yet... this is the order as well...?”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Spits.
little song10/27/2019 “Is it not?”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “Do I seem to you like I would act as they? “But...” Bows head. “I suppose the idea is within us. “Otherwise it would not have arisen. “I never saw such a flaw before.”
little song10/27/2019 “You are passionate. But no. I don’t think you would be damning a people because they look different. Or incessantly trying to kill a girl because she came from a different land. “And Kokka... “Is gone.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Head rises up. “WHAT!?” Guard chuckles.
little song10/27/2019 “I just assumed... “That blast.” Looks at the guard.
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guiscard: Head goes back. “Of course...my brother is a man of his word, if you delivered your sister, killed his men...I see now.” Guard: “You had your chance Kokkan.”
little song10/27/2019 Dry heaves.
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: “Don't say we don't have mercy. I believe the Master would put it as "We had all the power to destroy, yet we refrained. We had the power to damn the world, and yet offered a path." Guiscard: “That doesn't conflict with your previous oaths? To defend people?” Guard: “To defend Elyons people!”
little song10/27/2019 “I don’t see restraint. “I don’t see mercy. Or a path. Only damnation.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: “But it's obvious to us who are sanctified.” Guiscard: “Sukoshi, I don't want to listen to him. “It's shameful to hear my brothers fallen so much.”
little song10/27/2019 “I would rather hear him than my thoughts. “I understand.” Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: Looks between them, anger in his eyes. “Well listen to me! Cause your not going anywhere...except to eternal torment! The pure in heart have no doubts, the pure in mind never question. You Guiscard failed Elyon the day you let that witch tempt you off the path.”
little song10/27/2019 “Why is my sister a witch?! You don’t know anything about her!”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guiscard: Looks sternly at Guard. Guard: “I know things, I hear what happens, and what happened was this man allowed the touch of a woman! His purity compromised! He allowed it to let him keep things from us, eventually betray us! She bewitched him, and for that I hope she burns.”
little song10/27/2019 “Looks over to Guiscard.. What is he talking about?”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: “Tell him scum! Admit your sin!” In his mind, Guiscard knows he must make a choice...love or loyalty...His mind clears and he speaks with confidence. “Your sister...she is...a good teacher.”
little song10/27/2019 ... blinks.
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “Never before had I seen the hypocrisy of my life...of- of my- even that which I took as firm tradition.”
little song10/27/2019 “Oh... okay. “But like...” Cough.
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard clenches bar. Guiscard tightens fists. “Yes.… “I do.”
little song10/27/2019 “Okay. “But you were honorable with your dealings with her? “Because I mean I’m probably useless now but if I survive this and I find out you hurt her you are going to wish you never knew her.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: “The guilt is on his face!” Guiscard: Ignores, looks at Sukoshi, utters sternly “...never would I intend her harm.”
little song10/27/2019 Looks back at him. Nods. “I trust you.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Nods. “Thank you.” Guard headdesks against the bar, shakes his head. “Why why why.”
little song10/27/2019 “Maybe because your not looking. Do you think I hate Eylon. Because I’ve never done or said anything to make any of you think that!”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: “No! But you have not been vigilant, and you serve Kings who are willingly blind, and do nothing to stop Pale, haven't done anything to stop him, and because of you, a lazy servant, our world is in jeapordy.” Guiscard: Guiscard looks at the Guard sternly. “Listen to the Kokkan. When you stand before Elyon what will he see? ‘Thou camest but not with others? What have thou brought back from the desert unto my well?’”
little song10/27/2019 “Fine. But I don’t think pale was attacking until recently. “And I can’t fight anymore thanks to you all.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guard: Their words startle him...but he reacts in anger, and patrols away a short distance.
little song10/27/2019 Small smirk.
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 Guiscard: Smiles, “Ever heard that passage before?”
little song10/27/2019 “Actually no.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “Ah yes...it is little taught or remembered. At least it's true meaning.”
little song10/27/2019 “What’s it from?”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “A famous theologian, from Tir Cendel of all places, recites this parable from an older text first told to my people before we were Vachelous. It is about a man who goes to a well to fill his house, and he must travel through a desert to reach it. When he returns home his Master rebukes him because the servant was so determined to get the Water that he left behind others in the desert who were thirsty.”
little song10/27/2019 “Interesting”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “These men do not realize that the thirsty are the ones they are slaughtering. They need to be saved from their butchery, so they can be evangelized. “I fear if perhaps I could have been driven to be one of them? I was so eager for death...but your sister stopped me, and that changed everything.”
little song10/27/2019 “They’re killing ones that have water as well.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “Yes...yes I know. “Your right. “I don't know why...they'd tolerated different peoples before, but I suppose their desperation drove them to look for anything to discriminate as for pruning.”
little song10/27/2019 “Kokka is human though. We just have different eyes.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “But the population, according to my understanding, is largely Unbelievers?”
little song10/27/2019 “Yeah. “People from other kingdoms rarely come to us. “Except to kidnap our artisans.”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “When we get out, and Kokka is indeed destroyed...where will your people turn to?”
little song10/27/2019 “Do you think some survived”
Yankee Samarai10/27/2019 “My brother told me how powerful it is...I don't know.”
little song10/27/2019 “Tradition is life to Kokka. They would probably try to rebuild. “And strange. I knew I could never go back. I almost hated what it gave me. Yet I feel empty knowing that it might be gone”
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