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[Kay Velve'Niar]

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I arrived back at Telia's keep, after many weeks of searching in Wind for the author of the note left in my journal. I made my way around the ramparts to her door and stepped inside.

There was a hooded figured seated before the hearth. I could barely see a dark-skinned chin under the hood.

It was not my Telia.

"Who are you?" I asked. For obviously, this person was an intruder. Or had I been gone too long?

"I am the owner of the keep," a melodious feminine voice responded. Which, of course, was a lie. Or so I suspected.

"Telia owns this keep. Who are -you-?"

She told a very hard-to-believe tale, involving Telia being killed... and reborn, as the person before me.

"Remove your hood," I told her.

She had choice words about my command, but I was beyond caring, I wanted to know what had happened to my beloved Telia. Finally, she removed the hood, revealing very drowish features. She looked nothing like my Telia. Even her attitude was different.

She told me Faith had done this to her, shown her "true power". There was a question that weighed heavily on my mind.

"Do you love me?"

"I could desire you, I could conquer you, but I do not love you. I barely remember you."

My world crashed. It was strange for me, so hard to accept. But, she had the special mark my Telia had, and I knew it was she. She spoke drow to me consistently, it was torture. That most hated culture! For me to be forced to hear it from those lips, lips that once mouthed the words "I love you" to me.

My grief turned to anger. This woman who was once my Telia.. stood, mocking me. I felt a need to lash out.. I crushed her close to me and forced a kiss upon her. But, there was no familiarity in those lips.

I wanted so much to leave and never look back. Something about this though, I could not accept. To know the answer we had sought.. had changed her into a completely different person... was unbearable. All the seeking, for what? It was all for nothing.

I had lost everything. And it was all Faith's doing. She had kidnapped my Telia. Had murdered her, and had raised this drow witch, to join her. Why would Faith do this? I wondered. Last I had known, we were passing aquaintances. Mayhap it was she who had left the note in my journal? Was this her revenge? But for what? I have never done anything to her.

One way or the other, I must find Faith, and get answers.