- Joined
- Jan 20, 2009
The moon was flawless tonight he thought as the carriage made its way through the sparse woodland. Round and full, glowing in the sky like a mystical orb he couldn't look away. It was the first time he'd seen the moon in his home country, and to his knowledge the last he'd see it full as a bachelor. His hand stroked slowly along the cutlass next to him, its blade inlaid with silver as a gift to his fiance's father from his own. The two had served together as officers and decided it was time for their great houses to merge. This had been twelve years prior where at 8 he'd first met the young girl who was to be his "wife"
Four short years later he was off to boarding school, then traveling to be "educated" He'd learned several disciplines and now was seen as fit to be tied as it were. He found himself troubled to remember how she looked. He did remembere she seemed obsessed with him, every turn he'd make he'd look back to find large bright eyes peering at him. His own ethereally pale blue eyes closed as he leaned back in concentration. His fingers ran through his thick black hair and he smirked. He'd grown significantly, now a large muscular young man. While he was pondering of it he felt the carriage jolt to a halt. "Blimey" He heard the driver cry. Then the sounds of the man leaping down to the earth. "What's going on?" He asked to no answer. A cry of ssudden pain and a gunshot rang out in answer. He grabbed the cutlass as his other weapons lay in his things and leapt from the cabin to be greeted by the driver laid out, throat gashed wide. He trembled in the lamp light before expiring, and a great black beast lay nearby apparently hurt. Slipping forward he reached out to examine when it twisted and snapped at his hand.
Narrowly snatching his hand away he drew the cutlass knocking the lamp aside as its tip struck it. A wolf, this massive? It was zoologically unsound, and in this country no less. It leapt forward with surprising speed and his answer was a furious slash at its neck as he sidestepped. It howled and ran off staggering as it went. Raising his hand to his face he found it surprisingly wet and warm. Blood poured from a narrow gash along the back of it. "It got me?" He puzzled before looking up to see it now far enough he couldn't pursue it. Gathering the coachman he laid his body inside the coach and drove the horses on. He felt oddly hot even in the chill night. The house or manor he knew wasn't far, soon he could see t the gates, then he could see fuzzy shapes of bars. He drew up to them and stopped, he went to step down, his gait uneasy, his cheek hit the cold earth and the world went dark
Four short years later he was off to boarding school, then traveling to be "educated" He'd learned several disciplines and now was seen as fit to be tied as it were. He found himself troubled to remember how she looked. He did remembere she seemed obsessed with him, every turn he'd make he'd look back to find large bright eyes peering at him. His own ethereally pale blue eyes closed as he leaned back in concentration. His fingers ran through his thick black hair and he smirked. He'd grown significantly, now a large muscular young man. While he was pondering of it he felt the carriage jolt to a halt. "Blimey" He heard the driver cry. Then the sounds of the man leaping down to the earth. "What's going on?" He asked to no answer. A cry of ssudden pain and a gunshot rang out in answer. He grabbed the cutlass as his other weapons lay in his things and leapt from the cabin to be greeted by the driver laid out, throat gashed wide. He trembled in the lamp light before expiring, and a great black beast lay nearby apparently hurt. Slipping forward he reached out to examine when it twisted and snapped at his hand.
Narrowly snatching his hand away he drew the cutlass knocking the lamp aside as its tip struck it. A wolf, this massive? It was zoologically unsound, and in this country no less. It leapt forward with surprising speed and his answer was a furious slash at its neck as he sidestepped. It howled and ran off staggering as it went. Raising his hand to his face he found it surprisingly wet and warm. Blood poured from a narrow gash along the back of it. "It got me?" He puzzled before looking up to see it now far enough he couldn't pursue it. Gathering the coachman he laid his body inside the coach and drove the horses on. He felt oddly hot even in the chill night. The house or manor he knew wasn't far, soon he could see t the gates, then he could see fuzzy shapes of bars. He drew up to them and stopped, he went to step down, his gait uneasy, his cheek hit the cold earth and the world went dark