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[Daerauko]

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Ever vigilant I stay....watching over the area I was told to guard.

The non-tainted one named Bailos came into sight as I searched the tower for intruders....

I made my presence known to him through the whispers of shadows...He did not seem surprised...possibly knowing already...

"I have a task for you, wraith." I heard him say. "I need you to go to the Regency meeting and gather information." "I would like to know what possible plans they have for us."

"where is this...." I replied.

"Serpents hold. North of Occlo."

The name had the same feel of recognition as I have had with other things since my re-birth, as if I had once known the information or meaning behind it. But now is just unimportant knowledge compared to my maker and the desire to turn all or destroy all that do not serve...

But I still did not know of the location and was about to ask for him to tell me more how to reach this place...but before I did, I felt the sensation that I will be guided...and so I did not ask...

A good feeling washed over me...and the idea of turning tainted ones was strong...

"Shall I kill...turn...."

"No. Do not kill anyone. Just listen and then come back with a full report."

...the feeling was replaced with one of wanting, almost to beg to be allowed to do so...so much, did I want to turn the tainted souls...or destroy them...so much did the hunger for a prey to hunt...

Nodding once I faded into the shadows again...

Traversing the shadows through the city I saw four tainted ones rush past me. Two men on things that moved quickly...a word came to mind...mount...

A voice spoke up, "Kill". Hurridly I turned around but they were moving further away. Anger rushed forward. They cannot flee....cannot escape...Then a bluring of shadows and land sped quickly by me and when the bluring and melding of shadows ceased...I was in the tower...The tainted ones going up the stairs to the second floor where Bailos was...

I saw nothing else but my prey as I stalked them.

I heard words being spoken by them as well as non-tainted...Anger at the tainted ones...the color...disrupting my shadowy existance...the color...the brightness...their souls. They do not serve and must...

More non-tainted ones were comming up the stairs.

The voices stronger in the head wishing their death, wishing them to serve...

Eager as I was, I blocked out everything but the one I chose first. Moving behind him I melded from the shadows to strike.

I reached out with my hand. The black tendrils came out snaking towards towards the man. Something was said, and before the tendrils could touch him, making the prey easier to turn from the biting cold and slight paralysis he would feel there, he jumped back, yelling out. "What is that?"

I paused for a moment eyeing his weapon still to the side...watching...he made no aggressive movements like others have and so there was no need for me to disappear from the tainted ones sight. And so I continued to reach for him. That was when he drew his sword and swung at me.

But being cautous as I was....testing him...his reactions...his weak physical form...I withdrew my hand and melded once again out of sight.

And so smiling, waiting, I circled my prey...but then they left...moving quickly and with their mounts.

I drew back my bow and was about to release an arrow into ones back but then I remembered the task I needed to preform...

Lowering my bow I went back to Bailos to tell him I will leave now for it.

Serpents Hold....

Guide me I asked silently in a shadow whisper...and then...the bluring of shadows swirling around me extremely fast. And just as fast went back to the normal shades of grey. Something in my mind told me this was Serpents Hold....

Looking around I was in a large room, with a table and chairs in the middle. "Stay" a voice said in my mind.

It was then that I started seeing tainted ones gather slowly in this room. All tainted....all... my vision...anger...must all die...kill....

"serve" was all I needed to hear from the voices in my mind to keep myself from not attacking.... so unbearable it was...the brightness was hurting....there was no comfort....but I must listen...

The tainted ones were talking on a vote...something about for regent...and then they voted... A tainted one named Nazralte had won whatever it is that they call regent.

It was then that they asked around the crowd, but so far nothing that I deemed as important and nothing concerning those that I serve....It was also then that I saw a few non-tainted in the crowd of tainted...I drew in some comfort to see their cool shades of grey in a mass of horrible color.

The non-tainted spoke up saying his name...Sadrien....I have seen this one earlier....in the land known as Dark Cove as well....where I was blessed into this new life...

He spoke of the treatment that the ones called paladins had shown the people of Umbra.

The very word of paladin had the sounds of hissing from the voices in my head.

Sadrien spoke on, how many of them had died at their hands and their suffering...He spoke of many things but was put to the background as my eyes shifted over the crowd of tainted ones angerly...and when I spotted the prey that was at the tower earlier...the prey that escaped...and so I moved over to him...

He was arguing with Sadrien...I waited...watching...voicing out angerly in the shadows. A name was addressed to the man....CJ....

Once again remembering what I was here for I tried through my crys of anger, to focus on what was being said...

The Regent is going to send tainted ones to Umbra...to investigate.... That was when I knew I would have my chance... their souls will serve as I....I will hunt then...

Sadrien tried walking past CJ and some lady was saying something to CJ...to let him pass...

After some time passed and CJ still looking upon the non-tainted, I could not help myself but to show myself to them ...."Let him pass....." I spoke.

The woman jumped back and I could feel her fear....it gave me some comfort to feel that among the tainted souls...

CJ now on gaurd focusing on me, allowed Sadrien to walk by...

I heard a familiar voice from behind me say, "Stand down wraith." And then a voice in my head saying to "follow"...

And so into the shadows I once again went.

The meeting was at an end soon after. I was about to leave and report back until I heard from CJ asking to privately speak to the regent....

He spoke of an hopefull alliance among a Royal Court of Luna and the Regency.... The regent only smiled an never commited any words...

Not knowing what either were...I had the feeling that I should say this as I report...

I let out a hiss, before melding further into the dark depths of the shadows and then wanting to return to Umbra and report.

Like before the shadows swirled around me faster and faster in a blur until they stopped and I was once again within the tower, in Umbra.

I sought out Bailos and fullfilled the task at hand before going back to watching the city....waiting for the tainted to appear...and a hunt to begin...