Immediately I Felt A Stinging Pain In My Lower Arm & Dropped The Bow. I Was Unsure What Happened, But
Immediately I felt a stinging pain in my lower arm & dropped the bow. I was unsure what happened, but as I looked at my arm it was red as fire.
“Hit yourself with the string?” she laughed as Ingrid came out of hiding.
“What?”
“You hit yourself with the string, that's why your arm is red, and why the arrow fell short. Put some snow on the arm, it helps”
I did as she said. It really was relieving.
“But else quite a good first try. Anyone showed you how to use a bow before?”
“Not really... No. I just... observed you. Did what you did.”
“Ok then...” She got the bow from where I dropped it “... I'll have to show you.
You know how to hold it, nothing really difficult but it's important. But one thing about holding it you did wrong, any idea what? I can hold it like you just did, maybe you'll see it then”
I looked closely at her holding the bow. There was nothing unusual. Held it like she normally did too.
“...can't really see any difference to usually”
“So that's where the problem lies, you didn't observe closely enough. See, usually I hold the bow like this”
She bent her left arm a little to the side instead of holding it straight
“And basically, that's all there is to not hitting yourself with the string”
“...thats all?” I was baffled, but as I thought about it I understood it
“Yeah, that's all. Now to aiming” She gave me the bow
“Lets see...” She looked around “hmm... try hitting that tree over there”
“Funny, we're surrounded by trees”
She made a ball out of snow and threw it at one of the trees “Know wich one I mean now? Try hitting the snow from that snowball”
I took an arrow out of the quiver, put it on the bow, bent my arm this time, drew and released.
The arrow went past the tree
“Try once more”
“...if you say so”
I shot another arrow at the tree, focusing on the snowball
Past the tree again, but this time on the other side.
“When do you release the arrow?”
“What?”
“I know you've heard me boy, don't play the fool here”
“I... I don't know. When I focused on the spot I wanna hit”
“So you have no idea. Ok. Take another arrow, draw the bow, but this time, hold it”
I did as she said, this would soon get difficult to hold. She approched me.
“Look at me now, no need to focus on where the arrow is going.”
She put her hand on my chest, through the bow, if I would let go now I would definitely hurt her. I would probably even hurt her badly.
“Now, focus on your breathing and your heart. Be sure it all goes nice and slowly”
She put her head on my chest, probably to hear my heart beat. Even more danger if I'd let go now. She might had done that on purpose. To force me to hold out.
“Slower, come on, I know you can” her voice got softer, less tense... more relaxed
I focused on my breathing. Took long, slow breaths in and long slow breaths out. After some breaths there began to form a pause between the in and out breathing. Not long, but for an instant I didn't breath at all.
Simultaneously I also noticed how my heart was beating slower & slower. As if there was a connection between those two.
Ingrid lifted her head from my chest and looked me in the eyes for an instant. She rashly turned away and focused again.
Her voice was tense again, but with a bit of an weird soft undertone “Ok, good. You notice the pause between every breath? That's when you release the arrow.”
She still had her hand on my chest. I must admit, I did forget that I was holding the bow there for a moment with her head on my chest, but now I felt it in my arms again. She looked at me again for a short moment, but this time with an evil grin. As if she found it amusing to see me struggle holding the bow.
She lifted her hand. I began breathing in.
Focused on the snowball.
Released.
Hit!
Note from the Author
That got quite a bit longer than intended, but I hope it makes up for the left out episode.
Thanks for reading & a good weekend to ya all ^_^
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Burning Flesh
Horoathea Mass of Aegorath
I dreamt of the Attack again. The screams, the smell, it was all there. I just stood at the edge of the forest. Looking at the sea of flames. But still I heard the screams like I was standing right there. Smelled the burning flesh as if it was my own.
In the middle of it, were the screams of my mother. Those screams filled with pain & agony. Although they were mixed with all those other screaming people, you could hear her pain clearly.
I wanted to run into the forest, to make it stop, but I couldn't move. I was frozen in place. And then I saw a light moving away from the village. Towards me. As it came closer I saw who it was. It was that guy who set my mother on fire. He grinned at me from a distance & shouted 'All Hail the King!'
Picture Inner Flames by JudgePikachu [EDITED]
Music Horoathea Mass of Aegorath by Halgrath
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Kingslayer
A few days later Ruth and I went to a nearby town for... something -- I can't recall for what or why. Nothing really special was in town. Only masses of people, far more than in my hometown.
As we came by the Tavern a man came out. He was still looking inside while walking out the door. But then, he turned around. And his face went from tipsy smiling to sober fear. He went white as a sheet in no time.
He stood there, frozen in place. He slowly raised his shivering hand, pointing at me. He was opening his mouth widely. Like he wanted to scream, but -- nothing came out.
Picture Prancing Pony tavern by daRoz
Music Kingslayer by Ramin Djawadi
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POWER
I looked at my hand for a moment clenched it in triumph
Moments later I was lying there anew with that fucktard right beside me
''Are you ready to lose to me another time?''
''Not this time.'' I said grinning
I held up my right hand
Closed my eyes
Concentrated
Drove the energy from deep inside into it
As I opened my eyes again they were there.
Those deep black talon like claws My skin slowly falling off, revealing what is beneath
It was difficult to hide my agony the pain of the transformation was tormenting but I managed
I was still grinning, like a maniac and I looked at him, saw fear in his eyes
I felt amazing,
POWERFUL
''Hey, you're cheating. That ain't part of your body''
''I made it part of mine''
Then his face turned
He began grinning it felt like looking in a mirror and then I realized
This wasn't me
''That's all I wanted to hear, boy. You may pass''
Picture Glowing by Eemeling [EDITED]
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We went back shortly after. Neither of us said much. I looked at her every now and then, to see if she got hurt somewhere. Physically she seemed fine, but I was sure there had to be some serious mental & emotional damage after that.
She didn't tell me what had happened. She might think I know what happened, that I saw it all, but had no control over it. Or maybe... No, I had to stop overthinking this, without asking I can never guess what she thought. It was simply not possible to think myself into having no idea at all of whats up with me. I know not all of it either, but I know some important bits.
“Ingrid-”
I tried to break the silence, had to find out what happened.
“Whatever happened, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I didn't tell you beforehand, but I don't want people to know, for their safety. And now I'm forced to not tell anyone”
She didn't answer. She just continued walking, looking at the ground, staring far far away. Just like I did back then. Seeing that helped me a bit, helped me understand. It was a different situation, a different enemy, a different time, but I think it was somehow still very similar.
“Please Ingrid...” I put my hand on her shoulder “...please, I beg you, tell me what happened. I don't know, I cannot tell you why, not even what, but I never remember those...” I paused, carefully looking for the right word, to stay true to my contract “...those moments”
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Nightmare
Sam Rosenthal: six: thirteen (stretch mix 1)
It’s so dark already. I’m sure it will be night soon. I should find some tree I can sleep on.
I found a nice tree fast. It was climbable and probably high enough so wolves couldn’t get me. After finding a ‘comfy’ position on a branch I fell asleep fast.
Prepare for the Onslaught
’…Survive’ I yelled. Someone came in the front door. It was a man. He had a wound on his face. His eyes were glowing red. I started crying. 'Leave me be, please. I don’t want to die’ He looked at me and grinned 'Like I give a shit. It’s all on the king’s orders’Hahahahaha
He snapped his fingers and suddenly I was burning. I screamed. Louder and louder. Screaming out of pain & agony.
Picture forest by fdasuarez
Music Sam Rosenthal: six: thirteen (stretch mix 1) & Prepare for the Onslaught by Epic Score
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After completely focusing on my arm for some time I had back my own arm and hand. Skin, five fingers, nails, hair and all those small marks.
I ate what I had left, emptied and refilled my flask twice. By the time I was done the sun was high in the sky. My stomach was grumbling and I sensed that I was far from my usual state. I usually wasn't the guy to go jumping through the woods because he was overflowing with tons of energy, but now I was near to drained.
It was time to preserve my energy as good as possible, to think twice about it if it's worth running after some prey. Naturally I had to take some risks, but even those had to be close to a bet I'd surely win.
I left all unnecessary stuff at the tree, including my shirt and shoes.
It was rather warm and the air stood still, so it was much more pleasant to run around with just pants, bow, arrows & a knife. Might have been a good idea to take some rope with me too, to set up some traps in case I found any good spots, but didn't really think of that then. The Idea was more, fast & much. And traps usually weren't the fast way of getting prey.
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Raw Rabbit
Distant Horizons
My stomach was rumbling Nothing edible in sight --- at least nothing I know is edible. I hope that I find another town soon. Else I'll starve in this forest.
I noticed that there where many animals around now. Although I only saw that beaver in the days before. Maybe if I somehow manage to catch a rabbit --- no, I wouldn't be able to make a fire here and raw rabbit doesn't sound very good.
Continuing through the forest I thought about what I could find here that was edible.
Picture Deer by IntroducingEmy
Music Distant Horizons by Jeremy Soule
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The crowd was still standing around. Unsure if they should believe the drunken huntsman or not.
Ruth grabbed my hand firmly and went through the masses of people. A few dozen paces later she stopped, turned around and crouched down in front of me.
'Don't listen to that drunkard, he always tells stuff like that.' She calmly said to me.But in her eyes I saw that she didn't completely believe those words herself.
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I checked out my hand, it had healed already since yesterday. Only a small scar was left of the wound. I cautiously got up, stood on one knee and checked the leg the hound bit into. Lord Raspberry-head continued shouting, stomping and wildly waving his hands through the air so he didn't seem to care much about it.
Those are quite deep, and thorn up too... if that damn hound hadn't... fuck! This will take some time, even with ITs help.
All of sudden I heard the unsheathing of a sword through the shouting. I was half-prepared for this so I wanted to jump back, out of his reach. But my left leg didn't like that idea, it stung like hell. Thanks to hands and the other leg I got up and a bit backwards, but from there on it was more stumbling than jumping.
Before I could get out of his reach, I hit the tree whose roots I fell over.
Fuck!... at least it stopped me from falling
He forcefully swung his sword over his head and at me. He was wide open, this man was either no good swordsman, or his rage had consumed him completely. Lucky for me he didn't quite think about the tree and chopped into it before he could hit me.
Before he could swing another time I jumped to the side, trying to put near to all force on my right leg. Both while jumping and while landing again. Jumping kinda worked, it wasn't like I felt nothing, but far less than at my first jump.
Landing didn't work quite as well. I managed to land on my right foot, without the left even touching ground. But I lost my balance and had to cross-step to stop my body, meaning I had to put all my weight on the left leg.
“AHHHHHH!!!!”
It was stinging even more than the first time. I could feel how more blood was running out of the wound instantly.
Cømë ôñ. ¥ øû knôw yöù'vé gøt me, Ï cån hælp yôµ. Jús$st håvæ tø lêävé mè öút he he he
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