Diary of the gate of Baldura: William Rekwater #5

Life on the road, a very exciting thing, you see every day, hear, feel something new. There will always be events to which you will put your hand, whether it be the murder of giant spiders in the house of the old sorceress, or the removal of petrification from the valiant warrior right in the middle of the fair. Traveling, you not only get acquainted with new people, or other creatures, but you are also winging different booster.

I don’t know how the rest is, but at the moment I am lying in bed, wrapped in three blankets, I can barely reach the cesspool on my own. This is not counting an incomprehensible liquid pouring from my eyes and a navel, it looks like a jelly, which scared me in the first days of the disease. Jahyeira, as always, put her, without delay, with her own heated potions, from which there was no effect. I have no doubt about her skills, I just want to fix this moment. The disease began at the most inopportune moment. We all, as always, went to Nashkel, meeting a drunkard along the way, claiming that he was a lich, it was funny when he, with a wild screech, ran away from us, barely seeing my black -wing, a strange type. After that, a terrible picture opened to us, not far from the road along which we walked, there were ruins in which too unnatural sounds were heard, of course we decided to check what was happening there. Honestly, even now, when all this slurry flows out of me, I remember everything. The ruins were a few columns and a semblance of an altar in the middle, in the center there was a man with a staff dressed in a castle, he repeated the same spell over and over again, “Ocal Kurik Kargo Hisweger” So, after each word, skeletons stood out of the ground! It is now, sitting in relative safety, sniffing with his nose, I can think that we saw it was very strange, there was no one around, who knows what would happen if we had not found this place. After this, it is not surprising that the roads were occupied by the bandits. Naturally, no one began to talk to us, all that we heard before the battle, the next spell of the madman, thinking that he could command the afterlife of the afterlife.

The next few minutes I tried to dodge the inept attacks of the dead, at the same time, at least somehow give orders to blackcreen. There were a lot of undead, but their attacks were so awkward that they could hardly hurt me, not to mention Jaheir, who called on a fiery blade that passed dead flesh, as if it were created for this. The spectacle was beautiful, she operated on them, not worse than Khalid with her sword. It became clear quickly, the number of opponents only increases, we had to get to the necromancer, the idea of ​​the battle came to me, and I tried to find Imone’s eyes. She fought with two decrepit bodies, in the past gnomes, I called her, and shouting the sounds of the battle said “Use the shadows!”She quickly understood what I mean, and the next instant disappeared. For a while, it became difficult to restrain the onslaught of the dead, my strength was enough only on the charm of some corpses, and the forces of Jaheira and Khalid were at the limit, given how long they waved their weapons, in an instant all the dead fell, as if they had cut their threads for which they pulled.

And Imoen was staggered over the dead necromancer, with a bloody dagger looked like a mother bandit, I did not immediately see that kind, naive girl who once set fire to a barn in a candelaca … But I was also glad that we were alive. After the battle, in the sorcerer’s rags, we found an old letter that said the following:

“My dear son, guard, my mother and I are very glad that now you are a sorcerer! Just think, in our large family you will be the first who saddled such a difficult matter. Forgive our old people, we did not give you proper support, but now you are in its place, I know that for sure. Everything I ask you, since in the future you will become a big person, help us with the field, you know what difficulties we are with him, but thanks to you everything end.”

It was strange to read it, Loot Casino as if a bunch of bodies of one more time of the dead were not scattered around us, and the owner was lying without feelings. Among other things, Khalid accidentally poured something from the tube of the necromancer to me, the liquid made us sneeze all, and then take off his clothes, introducing into an inexplicable trans. As I was later told, Jaheire managed to utter a special prayer to the forest, and to return everyone to consciousness, everyone except me, by the time the rest came to my senses, I already spread out with might and main, running around the local forest thickets naked. They found me in a raw cave, with their backs on cold ground, and vague -colored vines of vague, which dug into my skin so that I had to get them out. I suppose they caused my illness, or that test tube, Khalid apologizes to this day and asks how I feel like. It’s good to get some kind of taverns to sleep for a couple of days under the roof.

Well, I am healthy, a couple of days have passed since then, and my guys somewhere got me a magical staff with lightning! In my questions, Imona says in a strange voice that the elves are sometimes forgotten to look around, directing their eyes for hundreds of years ahead. Do not disappear good! How difficult it is, although now I will be assured on the road, when you have a whole lightning in your hand, you begin to look at things differently. By the way, he taught blackcap to the first word – enemy! Now he is not only a small combat vehicle, but in some way the guard. It happens that he brings him, and he yells these words on the left and on the right, forcing us to rush at the first thing that comes across the hand. So, we almost killed the poor sculptor with incomprehensible animals surrounding him, something like basilisk. Statues, we must admit very believable, most of them are depicted in the form of people, animals, the guy has talent.

Today we sleep in an unfamiliar cave, it pours rain outside, we have already moved away from the coastal decent, Khalid says that we will get to Nashkel three days later, very optimistic from him, in life I won’t believe that we can’t meet a new event requiring our attention requiring our attention. To be honest, I was tired of sleeping on the ground, drag a heavy backpack with all things, too, that would hire an assistant.

For dinner, Khalid fried local fish, seasoned with sesame seeds and incomprehensible grass, and Imone added wine at the last moment, it turned out amazing. In general, in recent days, he began to notice for Imone the habit of going far in front of the detachment, sometimes it is not visible for hours, more often she returns already in the evening, when we begin to prepare a camp for an overnight stay. She says that she scouts the territory ahead, but more often than I hear this excuse, I notice different shins that falls out of her pockets, just imagine, recently she stole a real necklace somewhere!

Funny I wrote “Imagine” as if someone had read my diary, but it will be so in the future, and if not, it comes out silly? What difference does it make, in the end, this is my diary, what I want, I write, only now I realized it in full. Last days, I am less and less returning my thoughts to Kandelkip, the urgent life simply does not leave time for thoughts, memories, everything around is so fast, dangerous … Lord, I thought of the imone to kill that person! But if he continued to raise the dead, soon we all replenished the ranks of his army. I need to talk to her, before we spoke much more often, now … I have been dragging me for half a day in the deciphering of the scrolls, in the evening, setting up the camp of time, too, only before going to bed a couple of extra minutes, I’ll tell her how well we are going together that we are going together.

It seems to be a good talked, a group of hunters came across us in the morning, greeting us, they quickly noticed my staff, and asked them to help them in wild bears hunting. Promising a generous reward, poking in the face with paper with the signature of an important cone, we agreed without hesitation. The group is of course comical, a dwarf, constantly drinking from a flask with an ax more than it, an elf who ooles his mind on every corner, a person, pure mediocrity and a half -tattoos, with two axes. To my question to whom they serve, the dwarf was indignant faster than the rest, saying that they work for themselves, and the bears asked them to remove one influential person, whose name they certainly could not disclose.

Quickly going on the trail of animals, the person asked me to use the staff so that we did not risk my lives in vain, I objected, explaining to him that the staff has a certain number of charges, and I can’t spend them on some bears. The elf agreed displeasedly, so I had to draw up an action plan. But then Jaheira took me aside, getting a conversation.

– They are poachers, bears help the forest, I hear it from the birds flying here, they ask me to protect them.

Such a turn of events slightly knocked me out of the rut that I did not know what to do next, fortunately, Imoen knew how to climb into other people’s pockets. We tried to pull time if possible until she finds confirmation of the horses of Jaheira. Soon she had an order in her hands to destroy animals, not only bears, but also the rest of the fauna of the forest. Approaching a direct ultimatum to clean up good, they got a weapon, but the elf intervened, recalling that in my hands. And after a couple of minutes of evil contemplation of each other, they slowly disappeared. We understood that they would try again, so that we sent to follow them Imoen, who was only waiting for something similar to the practice of her abilities. I went straight to the bears with Jaheira and Khalid, thanks to Jaheire they did not pay any attention to us, which pleased. Although I was nervous, I didn’t even like it in the company of huge shaggy ones every day, I even liked Jaheyre, but I completely relaxed and I completely relaxed. The only problem was in Chernokryl, the bear disapprovingly puffed when he flew past them.

I was struck by Jaheira found a common language with them, stroked, fed with walnuts from her hand and … smiled, her fiery blade until recently cut, gutted the flesh, and now she was glad to be in the company of animals. Imone returned, said that the group stopped not far from us and was waiting, now we had to make a very difficult decision. On the one hand, we could send one of us to the city for a fiery fist for a legitimate solution to the conflict, which will drag out and not the fact that it would happen, on the other, could kill them all in place ..

Jaheira asked me if I want to take part in this, of course I was against this option, and asked me to give me a little time for the third option that arranges all. To kill them for poaching? Nonsense, who we are? Forest guardians? Perhaps for Jaheira and Khalid after everything that was in their life, it is habitual to solve such issues by force, but not for me. Today I understood this, we are different, no matter how we traveled together, do not divide the bed, help each other, each of us has our own motive to move further, thoughts about and without. At that moment, our motives collided … And before I would give up more experienced and adult Jaheire, referring to her authority, but now I realized what it means to take responsibility. After all, here and now the life of several creatures was decided, who certainly did not deserve death. I began to act, setting out my plan, I kept caught the disapproving glances from Jaheira and Khalid, only Imoen shook my head knowingly, and this gave me confidence. Having persuaded the rest, we waited for the night, I went to the place of the group stop, and Imone was already there with black-winged. It turned out that the entrance to the camp is guarded by the semi -firing, I had to sleep it with a spell, after which, having rummaged menacingly, I burst into them, waving the staff, threatening to kill them all, I managed to achieve the proper effect, they lay down the weapon. Then they approached Jaheira and Khalid, they picked them up in a popular language into their heads that their lesson, to put it mildly illegal, and if they catch our eyes again, then they will not get off with one fright. There were no bruises without a couple of bruises, but everyone was left to live, the dwarf was most indignant at the most outraged, Khalid even had to hit him with his foot to reassure. Of course they threatened, poured unfamiliar names as if they should tell us something. As a result, only the elf realized that it was better for them to keep quiet, and took negotiations on himself, promising not to lead a similar lifestyle, as well as thanking me personally that he left them alive.

This ended another day, Naskel is getting closer, the weather is getting worse, the roads were completely blurred, the swamp is waiting at every turn, the wind climbs under the clothes, and the face does not dry out of the rain. There were fewer animals, because of the dark sky, strange thoughts came to my mind. One of them was that, at the moment when Jaheira wanted to kill those people, I did not see the associates in them, rather the killers, was Jaheira so devoted to the forest that I was ready to go to such atrocities? And Khalid is just a silent accomplice? How many they killed before meeting me? Thinking about this, I feel uneasy who they are? Why do I trust them? And if on one day they decide to get rid of me that then? Imone, on the contrary, became close to them, probably because they are the only ones in a long time who encourages her theft, only the road remains … She will show who they really are. But now I know that I have my own, from anyone an independent voice, as well as will, I need to keep it in my head for as long as possible, I decide where to go, what to do and … who to kill.