Reven and Lumeria at Lumeria's house with a very sick Carmen...
There is a familiar voice at the door. The smiling face of nial the.bard.greets you, "lumeria it's been too long"
Behind him stands a paladin dressed in leather armor with a grey hood and silver Griffin emblem upon his right shoulder. He uneasily adjusts his collar and hood.
This is my friend, a demon hunter grey warden. We must talk, ...looking at Carmen...on afraid he was right
"Deteriorating. She may be too far gone now on the mental side."
"I may know what haunts her. Our old friend azaziel. He uses people he has possessed to create an ancor which prevents banishment or entrapment."He takes a small blue medallion with the same grey Griffin symbol as the paladin and gently swings it over Carmen. "Yes her soul has melded with his."
You see the paladin smile just slightly as Reven replies, "How do we help her? Do we need to use protection from evil and new plane protection?"
The grey warden will say,
"That will prevent possession but now that it's done their souls are intertwined you can't protect her from herself. The only cure I know is death. I think Niall should have to do it. He is the one that brought this demon upon you. This girls death should rest on his conscience."
Searching for an alternative Reven looks at Lumeria, "What say you lumera? Do you believe this is all that b can be done?"
Lumeria searches her memories, all the songs she's heard all the books she's read all the studies she has made for some clue some lost verse that could tell her but all the stories she knew as a bard seemed so clouded now.
Reven seeing the puzzled look on her face asks what is wrong and breaks Lumeria's silence, To Revan: "I.....don't know." To Nial and the Grey Warden: "Nial! It is so good to see you again. I am sad that I have not been able to return to your school, but the path of my life has led me elsewhere. How were you able to find us? I have taken extra measures to ensure our privacy here."
nial will say, a favorAble wind is all. The warden will say, it was a coincidence finding you. We were tracking the demon and the trail led us to Carmen, we must act quickly time is against us.
Lumira will look to Nial and ask him how he knows this Grey Warden. How correct are his facts and assumptions? Does Carmen really have to die? She will also step forward, putting herself between them and Carmen." She had already lost a child just days earlier. IN exchange for Mathias saving her life he required she bore him a child and then that child be removed to serve him. Angels took him from her days after he was born. She could not loose another one.
Nial says, the grey wardens are an order of paladins that work for the isle. The specialize in demonology and are the best in the world for info on about or how to fight them. Working with such gruesome subject matter leaves them pretty Grimm...no offense.
"None taken." The warden says with a slight smile
Reven responds to the comment, "Grim you say. Aren't you the ones that believe in miracles?"
Miracles are more common that you realize is nials smiles response.
The warden takes a confident stride to Carmen and opens her eyelids to show a blank stare with eyes full of black sores, "that is where the demon hides. The demon hides. You are all made of greed, you can not be free of this unless I show you how. She must die. You all did this to her you must live with it, she is a victim of you tampering with beings and forces you don't understand. Kill her Niall or watch her keep suffering and let azzaziel roam free plotting his next strike on you. Lumeria, don't get too close he's in to deep. The demon has marked him and not him not anyone he loved will be spared."
Her heart flutters and panic sets in, followed by cold reality crashing upon in in thousands of waves...She had been on the wrong side.
Lumira will tell the Warden, "No. It is not Niall's fault. It's my fault for thinking that goodness could triumph. How could the gods let this innocent girl, completely devoid of evil, be anchored by this demon? There is no justice. She did nothing to deserve this." Lumira is now beside Carmen, stroking her hair, crying.
"And since Mathos has nothing to gain from her, he has not saved her. All Carmen wanted was to have a childhood, and that was ripped from her. I couldn't even do that for her. If there is blame here, it belongs to the gods and myself. And since the gods clearly won't intervene, I will. I will do what I must."
Lumira kisses Carmen softly on the forehead, and says, "Forgive me, sweet child." Then she pulls out her dagger and stabs it in Carmen's heart.
"The Light will guide my path no more. Mathos can have his bastard priest, but he cannot have me any longer. We mortals really are play things for the high and mighty Olympians. We were sent here not live our own lives, but to be used by the gods to fulfill their own selfish desires. The Red Saint is right. His justice is what I seek now."
She will rip off her holy symbol and teleport to Brendenford.
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