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Soliloquium in Stone


Sorcerio
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* Please be aware that none of this is public in-character knowledge! *

 

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Now, deep below the earth he lay — gazing to the fleeting gleam of pale moonlight which crept along the hewn stone, illuminating the sodden earth with a glistening reflection. 

 

He felt it slip from his hands, no matter how resolved his hold — like grains of sand which escapes just within the cracks between his fingers, memories carried away by the ruthless current of time. That was all he could do now, but wait in silence, dreading each thought which pressed to the forefront of his mind, no matter how fond or dear it was held to his heart. 

 

In those final moments of sanity, as he felt the last of his wakefulness depart from him, he let forth a final verse in desperate croak;


 

“To die of immolation, is there a worse fate?

My clouded soul, the dark deign’st abdicate.

I’d set upon a path, a road of perdition;

Seen as just war, believed a holy mission.

Yet now I lie here, my flesh heavy like stone,

The cold is biting, chills creep to my bone.”

 

“No words of joy or mirth would e’er consol me,

Had I but thought, but reflected — if only.

Yet this was my purgatory, a fate I had chose.

Better a body burned, than flesh be froze?

So now I lie here, deep and cold beneath the earth.

By cold hard stone, that flesh be reversed.”


 

Emptiness, bitter and cold.

 

That was all he could strain to recount. 

 

Then there was silence. 

 

Then there was stone.

 

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From within the bowels of the earth,

 

Came comfort borne, of spirit's birth. 

 

The Hound sat idle, lingering in caverns deep,

 

'Til the King, once again, woke from sleep.

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13 hours ago, Sorcerio said:

Then there was silence. 

 

Then there was stone.

((This was *chef’s kiss* brilliant. So proud of you 💕))

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