A Future darkens Part I

Myrinaris is little More than a child really and a very confused one at that. she was adopted by a band of  wanderers  as a babe in arms and lived amongst them as one of them until she turned fifteen or so when along with all the other changes which a normal human puberty brings she grew claws, large prominent ones on her feet and smaller but no less obvious ones on the hands. Her previously loving adoptive extended family being as most of the travelling folk are rather superstitious to put it mildly came to the conclusion that she was demon or devil kin and chased her out with instructions not to return on pain of death. It was plain that they where terrified of her and it was only the love for the child they had raised which stopped them slaying her there and then.

She fled with what she had and finding that word quickly spread of her evil and fearing that others might turn their hand against her more strongly she fled, living off her wits and hiding her true nature, something which scared her quite as much as it did every one else . In the end she fell in with another traveller also an outcast from her adopted people a half elf priest of the Judge of the dead and undead hunter a grim fellow to be sure but one with not an ounce of superstition in him and together they shared several adventures and  travelled to the city of the Crusaders beside the Blight Scar intending to find a company of Crusaders to join up with indeed she was in the square before the great temple for the great festival when the city fell under an unexpected attack. During which she was apparently stunned, or knocked out briefly and found herself in a great cave with no recollection of how she got there apparently unharmed.

However it was some where her other curse that of being able to see in total darkness served her quite well, and she explored finding her dropped equipment and to be honest looting the bodies of those who had apparently fallen to their deaths as she had not. Not it is to be understood that she was in any way ungrateful to whatever fate had saved her. Eventually she turned to the task of trying to find a way back to the city from where ever it was that she was now and this is where things got even stranger.

First she noticed that she was not the only one alive in this huge cavern and that the others seemed to be an organised group of crusaders. She determined to approach them with a view to joining them, but whilst she was doing so they where attacked by demons which they fought off successfully and moved on. Even better she thought they knew what they where doing. Which was even better and she moved towards them and would have joined them but as she approached each time they where beset with more demons and fought them off as the attacks did not seem to be at all organised it was just that the demons who where she noted universally capable of flying seemed to have survived the fall better than the people who where not. Though the attacks where heavy she noticed with approval that they where dealt with in a methodical and practiced manner even if the frequency stopped her breaking cover and joining the group.

Unfortunately in paying all this attention to what this group where doing she managed not to pay proper attention to other things going on in the cavern around her, and just as the small group was assailed by the largest group of demons yet something or some one grabbed her from behind, whispering in her ear in Elvish that they could watch the show together . 

To be continued….