It began with a scream
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:00 am
As Catarianna whailed her final death cry to the trio that stood before her, her form vaporised into entropy...
All that she could remember was but one last memory... How did it come to this one moment?
***
Some time before, she entered the chamber of Karasuthra. What few guards might have been there were easily dispatched with fire and entropy, her imagination turned them to dust at the touch of a finger.
It was here in this prison that they had hoped to enthrall the beast Katarynne, the succubi that they wanted so passionatley to save.
If I go, I am taking you with me. She muttered to her own mind with a bitter expression as she headed towards the antichamber.
In that little room was a single cage well chained and reinforced. To their credit they had put alot of wards there to make sure it could not be passed, the creature inside would have quite a time trying to get out.
Had they neglected to consider that the two were linked by the remenant essense of her own soul tied to the beast, they might have been able to ward her out. They had warded it against scrying, but not against a link such as theirs.
She looked ahead at the monster.
"Well well, it seems you are fortunate that my irony is feeling considerate for your personage." The demoness stirred looking at her with a hungry pair of eyes, and said nothing.
"Do you know who I am?" She said with a bitter tone, looking at the beast in the cage wanting only to impale her with the sharp edge of her staff.
"Yes..." the creature hissed in perfect common, she could speak, good, she smiled dryly.
"You know I should for all logical reason kill you now and seal your fate but I have a far better idea. As you are, you dont want my amulet... this pretty thing..." she stroked it smiling.
The creature looked at it as if she saw a holy ward and hissed. "Get that thing away from me!" She lashed out bitterly.
Catarianna chuckled, for such an innocently proclaimed creature you have a vicious side after all she mused.
"Oh dont worry about this, im not even remotley considering giving it you back, you dont deserve it anyway, but I tell you what, im prepaired to make sure they cant put it on you."
"How?" She tilted her head curiously, the succubus watched as Catarianna paced forth and back near the cage, watching her in turn deciding her fate.
"By freeing you of course." She replied finally, the Succubus looked taken aback.
"Why, would you of all people free me?" She looked at her with a raised, suspicious eyebrow, and a small hint of... fear.
"Because I do not want them to fix you... I want them to loose, just as you dont want to be saved, not like you are, your true self, this is what you really are, a malevolant beast what you should be."
She waited a moment as the Succubus listened, she nodded and smirked at Catarianna intreagued.
"Go on... whats the catch."
"No catch..." Catarianna reassured her dismissivly, she eyed the locks and wards before beginning to unbind them. "I just want to make sure I win, and I know exactly how I shall."
With a click, the locks came free and the wards faded, the Succubus rubbed her badly squeezed neck and relaxed at last. "Freedom does feel good, I should reward you for this..." she purred offeringly.
The temptation was a little to distant for Catarianna, being rewarded by a being that held the lighter half of her soul was far too, grotesque for her own carnal imagination.
"I think, with respect I shall pass but now that you are free, make no time to remain here you should leave now."
The Succubus nodded and was gone in a flash, Cat grinned widley and waited till she was far away.
Then she looked at her amulet.
She returned later to the hall of Speakers where she summoned forth an enthralled demon. The creature knelt before her "What is your bidding mistress?"
She looked at it sizingly before entering the chamber. "I would have you guard my room with your life, no one is to come in or leave save the one that presents my amulet."
"Mistress?" The creature looked confused, she presented her amulet. "You will also guard that person with your life or I will be sure that Red Shroud hears of your lack of capacity."
"Yes Mistress, as you wish..." the demon said cautiously, before standing to attention.
Entering the chamber, she then set to writing a letter for the person she had in mind. She sighed a moment hesitantly before taking the amulet off her neck.
It felt ... wrong not to wear it, it felt as if she was fading apart but she knew she was going to die anyway. She had intended this, she knew it was inavoidable, even if she began to feel the fear of returning to the Abyss.
With a smile she put the amulet into the letter and sent it by runner to the recepient it was intended for. Then she left the hall and awaited her fate.
***
It surprised her that it had not come from the Doomguard that hated her passionatley but by the people she had worked so hard to unmake. Even so, the Sinker would likley hold no ill to her since entropy was entropy and things moved as things willed.
Now she felt Entropy begin to swallow her and she feared it. As a signer the imagination in her begged her to reconsider death and tried desperatley to draw her into reality once more.
But Catarianna knew death was inevitable, she finally accepted it with open arms and with a grudging sigh she made but one last whisper.
"Wren..." she said, before forgetting who Wren was... who she was... what anything was.
The Remenant of Catarianna faded into dust, memory and silence.
All that she could remember was but one last memory... How did it come to this one moment?
***
Some time before, she entered the chamber of Karasuthra. What few guards might have been there were easily dispatched with fire and entropy, her imagination turned them to dust at the touch of a finger.
It was here in this prison that they had hoped to enthrall the beast Katarynne, the succubi that they wanted so passionatley to save.
If I go, I am taking you with me. She muttered to her own mind with a bitter expression as she headed towards the antichamber.
In that little room was a single cage well chained and reinforced. To their credit they had put alot of wards there to make sure it could not be passed, the creature inside would have quite a time trying to get out.
Had they neglected to consider that the two were linked by the remenant essense of her own soul tied to the beast, they might have been able to ward her out. They had warded it against scrying, but not against a link such as theirs.
She looked ahead at the monster.
"Well well, it seems you are fortunate that my irony is feeling considerate for your personage." The demoness stirred looking at her with a hungry pair of eyes, and said nothing.
"Do you know who I am?" She said with a bitter tone, looking at the beast in the cage wanting only to impale her with the sharp edge of her staff.
"Yes..." the creature hissed in perfect common, she could speak, good, she smiled dryly.
"You know I should for all logical reason kill you now and seal your fate but I have a far better idea. As you are, you dont want my amulet... this pretty thing..." she stroked it smiling.
The creature looked at it as if she saw a holy ward and hissed. "Get that thing away from me!" She lashed out bitterly.
Catarianna chuckled, for such an innocently proclaimed creature you have a vicious side after all she mused.
"Oh dont worry about this, im not even remotley considering giving it you back, you dont deserve it anyway, but I tell you what, im prepaired to make sure they cant put it on you."
"How?" She tilted her head curiously, the succubus watched as Catarianna paced forth and back near the cage, watching her in turn deciding her fate.
"By freeing you of course." She replied finally, the Succubus looked taken aback.
"Why, would you of all people free me?" She looked at her with a raised, suspicious eyebrow, and a small hint of... fear.
"Because I do not want them to fix you... I want them to loose, just as you dont want to be saved, not like you are, your true self, this is what you really are, a malevolant beast what you should be."
She waited a moment as the Succubus listened, she nodded and smirked at Catarianna intreagued.
"Go on... whats the catch."
"No catch..." Catarianna reassured her dismissivly, she eyed the locks and wards before beginning to unbind them. "I just want to make sure I win, and I know exactly how I shall."
With a click, the locks came free and the wards faded, the Succubus rubbed her badly squeezed neck and relaxed at last. "Freedom does feel good, I should reward you for this..." she purred offeringly.
The temptation was a little to distant for Catarianna, being rewarded by a being that held the lighter half of her soul was far too, grotesque for her own carnal imagination.
"I think, with respect I shall pass but now that you are free, make no time to remain here you should leave now."
The Succubus nodded and was gone in a flash, Cat grinned widley and waited till she was far away.
Then she looked at her amulet.
She returned later to the hall of Speakers where she summoned forth an enthralled demon. The creature knelt before her "What is your bidding mistress?"
She looked at it sizingly before entering the chamber. "I would have you guard my room with your life, no one is to come in or leave save the one that presents my amulet."
"Mistress?" The creature looked confused, she presented her amulet. "You will also guard that person with your life or I will be sure that Red Shroud hears of your lack of capacity."
"Yes Mistress, as you wish..." the demon said cautiously, before standing to attention.
Entering the chamber, she then set to writing a letter for the person she had in mind. She sighed a moment hesitantly before taking the amulet off her neck.
It felt ... wrong not to wear it, it felt as if she was fading apart but she knew she was going to die anyway. She had intended this, she knew it was inavoidable, even if she began to feel the fear of returning to the Abyss.
With a smile she put the amulet into the letter and sent it by runner to the recepient it was intended for. Then she left the hall and awaited her fate.
***
It surprised her that it had not come from the Doomguard that hated her passionatley but by the people she had worked so hard to unmake. Even so, the Sinker would likley hold no ill to her since entropy was entropy and things moved as things willed.
Now she felt Entropy begin to swallow her and she feared it. As a signer the imagination in her begged her to reconsider death and tried desperatley to draw her into reality once more.
But Catarianna knew death was inevitable, she finally accepted it with open arms and with a grudging sigh she made but one last whisper.
"Wren..." she said, before forgetting who Wren was... who she was... what anything was.
The Remenant of Catarianna faded into dust, memory and silence.