Err... That image or whatever it was didn't work for me Sylvia...
Sodex discussed something about moolah with a couple of idiots that reminded me of proud glukks. They stood around a table with chairs. On the table were a couple of notes that they looked on sometimes when they talked. No one of them payed attention to me. So I did as usual and looked at the details in the room. There were some spiderweb in a corner, without spider, old and dusty... The roof had alot of nails in it... One nail was bent... Sodex looked at me, not looking quite interested...
"That's it?" he asked. "You're finally here, just waiting for me to tell the slig to shoot you? That's one hell of a hero huh?"
A glukk laughed quietly but got silent when Sodex gave him a look that could freece a burning bush to ice.
”I’m glad that I didn’t have to fight anyone anyway. Let’s give you a choice, should we?”
”What?” I asked without enthusiasm.
”Ah, what a fiery soul.” He commented. The same glukk as before grinned.
”You can take your punisment here and choose how you’d like to die, or you can take your punishment by the empress and probably receive a slow and painful death. We all know why, right gentlemen? We all know what he did. So, how do you like it?”
I felt a bit cold by the moment he mentioned the empresses name. Something greyshaded appeared in my mind. A ball? Yes, a small purple ball… I knew I had to go to the empress. I just knew it.
”I believe I’d take my punishment on the place I really want to die. In the… palace, is it?” I said as calm as I could. Sodex nodded.
”Alright, it’s your life.” He said, shrugged and turned around. He was just about to leave the room when he seemed to remember something.
”Well.” He said. ”What’s your name?”
”Mm? Gold, it is…” I replied.
”Well, Gold… I am not so good at keeping promises.” He said and gave a slig a sign. I felt a gun at my head. I closed my eyes and thought of everything. Something boomed.
I thought I was dead again. I was wrong. The gun was still by my head, everything was just as before. Except… The glukks and sligs all looked at the door. I glanced at it. The form of a mudokon holding a staff or a spear.
Orion! I thought. I was wrong. I realized it when I saw it wasn’t the light from another room. The mudokon glew. The mudokon started moving his arms in a chant-like way. The world blew up.
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