[HQ Ignorance] Re : Re : Scene 60: The Angel of Mourning. Nasty thoughts.

[Nic Hughes]

Lev Lafayette wrote:
>
> Although there is a nagging doubt in Aalmon's mind
> (ever the troubled one) on why the Baron should do
> this. After all, the Baron himself should surely be
> the one in line for the throne. Why doesn't he want
> it?
>   
Aalmon's black mood had not lifted since the burial of his brother. He 
sat to the side idly twirling the silver amulet of his brother in his 
hand as he watched the goings on with cynical amusement.

His gaze wandered over each of the members of the fellowship, of course 
none of them would be chosen for this false honour for they were naught 
but a rabble of non-humans, primitives and bastards. Azhur had done no 
more than any of the others, less than some, yet with his noble blood 
and wizardly bearing he was the one chosen for all the honour, whether 
it was honestly meant or not. No good putting a bastard puppet on the 
throne, that would never do would it.

Or would it.

He looked at Marianne and then back at the amulet of his brother, it 
still contained much of his magic within it. Magic that even the first 
flush of romance could not resist if wielded properly. There was more 
than one way to put a bastard on the throne and if he did it the way of 
his deceased brother then the task would be a little more pleasant than 
anything in the past days, for she was pretty enough. He twirled the 
amulet around a few more times, sensing the seductive power within it, 
if the baron wanted to play his twisted little games then why why should 
Aalmon not join in with his own.

As for the Baron's plans...he remembered back to his travels and a story 
he heard in Dragons Pass. The barbarian princes there kept a very 
special bodyguard that was so universally feared and reviled that it 
could not be bribed and protected even the weakest of heirs from upstart 
barons. His gaze fell to Knarl, yes the wolf-men would make perfect 
guardians for the child. Whoever the father really was.

Nic


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