Driftwood breaks

[Porkgasm 267]

 

Down in the Depths of the Shrine of Arugula, a small blind Halfling weeps.

 

"My Daughter! My Wife! Gone....gone, all gone. All I have left is the sea...before I found love, I found life in the still full peace of the land, there was the sea." he mutters bitterly.

 

His thoughts drifted to the words of his father, to the ancient Driftwood legends past down from Fisherman to Sailor. Of the Wrath of Arugula decending upon those who had betrayed the Halfling People, who's tendrils would wrap around their souls and bring them down into the crushing depths of the sea, where only pain and agony remained in the Maw of Arugula.

 

He opened an old chest he had never opened, given to him by his Grandfather, a salty old Halfling fisherman. "When teh Family is betrayed, and teh weefolk are betrayed, you'll feel it right ta open it then. Nah before" he has said, and nothing more.

 

The Halfling looked into the Chest, the silence of the Shrine only broken by the waves of the sea lapping against the cold stone. There was nothing that would Bigguns would ever consider valuable or important within. Nothing they would ever understand. Dark robes, with a meaningless icon stitched into the cloth. And an Old Trident. Nothing more.

 

The Halfling took these things with reverence, with bitterness, with sorrow. He put on these new robes and wept bitterly. That anyone should see his family taken from him....

He removed his blindfold, and cried out as he stuffed two pearls in his eyesockets. Bloody tears left trails of crimson on his face as he did so. The pain would remind him of the pain his daughter felt when her life was stolen from her.

 

That was it...there was nothing left. Nothing but the Wrath of Arugula, and Vengence for a broken family 

[MangoArt 399]

”What the hell happened to the Driftwood-Applebrooks?” Wonders a quite frankly confused and heartbroken member of their extended family, Pelegren Applebrook.