Post by Amanita Vernia on May 12, 2005 19:38:06 GMT -5
SEEKING SALVATION
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Something has told me that this is all broader than it appears. That coincidence is often, if not always, farce -- maybe even a trap. We must keep our eyes on alert. Prepare for enemies in every walk, because Silenti is no safe home and for me it has never been.
Setting in the garden I found myself for a second time at the center of an attack within the walls of this house. I fear I made the worst of mistakes by going to Krakatoa myself and asking for his help. I have left us open for these attacks, which means I was the cause of three deaths that I did not intend. I understand these men were my protectors, but I have failed them. Worst of all I failed Naga. He trusted I would always show him what he couldn't see himself and now it is only dust. Death and dust.
I hold one more life in my hands now, the captive, but even though my men have advised to slay him.... I cannot.
He is a killer. Ruthless in the way he slaughtered two of my guard, but I also watched him turn to stone before Arculeius for no reason that I can find. He speaks in fragments, a scattered mind or perhaps another farce that I have fallen for. He has been shackled, given enough food and water to stay alive, and kept in what was once my father's experimentation lab. The place itself brings a chill to my spine, it is filled with memories, old ghosts. I have thought I witnessed something familiar in this man, but I know how my mind plays these tricks.
My mind.... lost and found... then lost again. I need to concentrate on something other than the past. My expedition, the journal.. I will put all my efforts in finding Nyoka now. I will find my salvation in the Eye.[/color]
