[pnpgm] Update #50 – Varo

[Bessie Hadley]

Varo continues to follow Kaz, close behind the leaders of their group. She was puzzled about the runes she saw in the library, but the pictures along this passage downward, & the remarks she overhears from the swordsman next to Kaz tell her whatever is happening must be linked to a solstice, or the moon’s conjunction which was due very soon tonight. 

Some kind of terrible power must be available to be grabbed by whoever is in the “magical” spot at the right moment. Neither Jaren or Daren should have such power, since they had resorted to murder & deceit & betrayal to obtain it. Such actions were very much out of Balance, benefiting only the two men, to the detriment of the innocent natives here - the dead folk of this village, & the future denizens as well. Varo is feeling the horror of the situation prays for self-control to manage her anger, a her fear, too. She finds herself with her bow drawn, arrow nocked & ready to fire at either or both of those men as soon as she sees them. It’s all she can currently do to try to disrupt their plan & hopefully knock the two men out of the place they needed to be, or otherwise distract them when this “alignment” occurred. She raises her bow & sights over the men’s shoulders to seek a target ahead of them in the upcoming chamber below, moving as silently as she can in her soft boots. She would have to at least wound them, if either they made any move to fight, or just tried to continue whatever ritual or spell they were doing - and try to knock them to the ground or away from wherever they were standing. Hopefully, such would interrupt any spell or action the two were working on.

“Oh, my Earth Queen Ernalda, please guide my aim tonight to stop this terrible grab for stolen power by these evil men. Please keep me & my friends in the Balance & the Light, & bring the Moon to hear your call for Balance for our world. We need not kill tonight if we can disable and imprison them, but if death must come, let it be in your favor, for the Balance of the World. Keep us steady & faithful to hear your choice for us all. Amen.”

Bess L. Hadley