Chapter 272: 038 – The Drunk In Willcolly
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The captain narrowed her eyes, as her squad looked at Lirian with high alert.
She could tell that her soldier was only unconscious, but she couldn't understand why!
She didn't see Lirian do anything out of the ordinary, and there was certainly nothing special that she could feel about Lirian, which caused her frown to deepen.
"You!" she pointed to one of her soldiers, "Approach him, but do so with caution if you detect anything strange back away," she ordered.
Everyone cast gazes of pity at the unfortunate soldier who looked at Lirian with terror.
Felling the gazes of pity he cast a gloomy look to his fellow comrades, 'If you guys really felt sorry for me, then one of you would take my place,' he inwardly cursed at his squad members as he walked forward slowly.
He carefully approached the point where the last soldier fell unconscious and took a shaky step forward, but almost immediately he back tracked with the agility of a cat.
"What happened?" the captain asked with an ever-growing frown, she hadn't detected anything again, yet it seemed that her soldiers did, which was making her mood turn foul.
The soldier felt sweat trickle down his back as he detected the displeasure of his captain, he thought that the captain was displeased with him, so he glanced between the captain and Lirian with a look of uncertainty.
Should he approach again or should he just explain, soon enough his mind was made up, he rather face the guillotine than approach Lirian again.
He looked to his captain with eyes filled with resolve, "Captain what I'm about to say I swear is no lie,"
"But I'd rather take a bath in a sewer than approach that man ever again,"
"For his stench is so bad, it could kill an orc in its tracks," the soldier cried out, he recalled that moment when he approached the stench threatened to overwhelm his every sense, if he took another breath he suspected that he would have died.
He chanced a glance of pity at the poor soldier who lay on the ground, in his eyes even if the soldier survived, he be left with a trauma no man could recover from, just the thought of the stench was making him shudder in fright.
The captain's eyes twitched in their sockets, and her lungs threatened to burst from the anger she felt, she was actually doubting her own abilities, because of a man's stench.
"Cheers!" Lirian shouted and splashed more ale into his mouth, "For you have survived what even an orc cannot," Lirian laughed happily and jeered.
The soldier face went red in anger, as the other soldiers all laughed on at their comrade's expanse, only the captain's face showed no humour.
She quickly scanned through the barrels behind Lirian and looked at him with a raised brow, 'He couldn't have drunk all of that by himself, he'd be dead,' she thought to herself.
Just then Lirian felt his mug run dry, "Hey www-wwwould one of you be a dd-ddear and fill this up for me?" Lirian asked the soldiers while holding the mug high, or at least as high as the earthen pillory allowed him to extend his hand.
"I can't leave untilllll I fffffinish drinking allllllll my friends," Lirian whispered.
The soldiers glanced between the barrels and Lirian with strange gazes, "You saying you drank all of those," a soldier asked sceptically while keeping her distance.
"Just, me, myself and I," Lirian said proudly and smiled happily.
"Would anyone like to j-j-j-join me? I onlyyyy have three… friends left to finish," Lirian offered.
"Then I… can leave, who'd l-l-like to help this blindman?" Lirian asked and offered them his mug once more.
The captain's eyes glinted as she realised something, this was the second time Lirian mentioned that he couldn't leave until he finished all the barrels of ale.
"Are you being punished by your superior who devastated this village? Why can't you leave until you finish all the ale? What happened here?" she asked in a sever tone, she was thinking that he was some human trained by the orcs to act as a spy, and he was being punished for some mistake he made.
Lirian faced the captain with a smug smile and offered her his mug, his intention clear he wouldn't answer if she didn't give him his ale.
A cold smile appeared on her face and she slowly closed her palms, immediately the earth pillory started to tighten around Lirian and he started to sink into the earth, a short while later all that remained above ground was his head and two hands that were locked by the pillory that was digging into his skin.
However the captain's frown only deepened the further Lirian sunk, forget about screaming or begging for mercy, he didn't even show the slightest trace of panic as he was buried alive.
'Either he is really brave or he must be so drunk, that he can't even realise his life is in danger,' she reasoned with her self but then she saw that taunting smile, which was aimed directly at her and despite the awkward angle Lirian was still holding the mug out to her.
The captain bit back a curse and pointed to the soldier who had spoken to Lirian, "You fill his mug," she said in an irritated voice.
"But…" the soldier started to complain, she saw one comrade feint and another who claimed that a bath in a sewer was more appealing.
"Hold your breath and block your nose!" the captain shouted in annoyance.
A short while later, Lirian happily splashed more ale into his mouth as the soldier fell to her hands and knees, while involuntarily gagging.
"Now answer my questions," the captain said coldly.
Lirian chuckled between gulps and raised a finger on his free hand, "Firstly, this god take's orders from no one, not even the heavens are my superior," Lirian declared loudly. but everyone took it as the ramblings of a very drunk mad man.
"Secondly," Lirian said raising another finger and brought it as close to his lips as possible, "Sssh, you have to promise to keep it a secret," he said with a twinkling smile.
The captains entire face started to twitch, she could tell he wanted her to promise to keep it a secret, even his first answer was complete dog crap in her opinion.
After a long while of gritting her teeth, she decided to entertain his childish antics, this was the only living person she found that could know about what happened, she could always resort to torture, but that was a last resort thing, and she'd rather do it with the lord present.
"I promise to keep it a secret," she spat out.
"You pppromise on your honour as a captain?" Lirian asked innocently, causing her to open her eyes wide, he was so drunk that she didn't expect him to realise that she was a captain, evidently she had underestimated him.
"On my honour as a captain of House Kurt," she said seriously, and looked at Lirian in a new light.
Lirian motioned with his hand for her to come closer, she still looked sceptical but she walked closer to Lirian while holding her breath and brought her ear close to Lirian's mouth.
"It was the heavens," Lirian whispered, "The heavens… told me to drink… all this ale… to wait for you," Lirian whispered in a serious tone, "Captain Reyna of House Kurt."
Captain Reyna's eyes shrunk as she looked at Lirian in surprise, she didn't introduce herself to him and none of the soldiers called her anything other than captain.
She looked at the blindfold sceptically, thinking that maybe Lirian was someone who had seen her from afar and recognised her, after all she would have remembered meeting such a handsome man.
She was a private person and rarely ever spoke unless necessary when in the public, there was no way that anyone who didn't know her personally or wasn't part of her squad would recognise her from her voice alone.
She reached out and pulled of the blindfold, and she was completely mesmerized by the sight of those silver eyes, that seemed to glow with the light of the stars, it took her a while to finally realise that she was distracted from her original task.
She pulled back her wondering thoughts and dragged a ball of flame around in front of Lirian's eyes, after a few seconds she realised that there was no pupil response to the intense light, it appeared that Lirian really was blind.
"How do you know who I am?" she asked seriously.
"I told you… hic… the heavens told me," Lirian said with a mad laugh as he got the hiccups, "The heavens want you… to take me with you," Lirian said with a grin.
A cold shudder passed through Captain Reyna's body, there was something about Lirian that was drawing her in, but more than that there was a feeling of utter terror that she couldn't explain.
It was like every fibre in her being was shouting danger, screaming at her to get away from the man in front of her, that bringing him back to the estate of House Kurt would bring about its ruin.
Her every sense was telling her that the one responsible for turning this village into an abandoned wreck was right before her eyes, it was like he was a beautiful monster, that could peer into the depths of her soul.
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The captain narrowed her eyes, as her squad looked at Lirian with high alert.
She could tell that her soldier was only unconscious, but she couldn't understand why!
She didn't see Lirian do anything out of the ordinary, and there was certainly nothing special that she could feel about Lirian, which caused her frown to deepen.
"You!" she pointed to one of her soldiers, "Approach him, but do so with caution if you detect anything strange back away," she ordered.
Everyone cast gazes of pity at the unfortunate soldier who looked at Lirian with terror.
Felling the gazes of pity he cast a gloomy look to his fellow comrades, 'If you guys really felt sorry for me, then one of you would take my place,' he inwardly cursed at his squad members as he walked forward slowly.
He carefully approached the point where the last soldier fell unconscious and took a shaky step forward, but almost immediately he back tracked with the agility of a cat.
"What happened?" the captain asked with an ever-growing frown, she hadn't detected anything again, yet it seemed that her soldiers did, which was making her mood turn foul.
The soldier felt sweat trickle down his back as he detected the displeasure of his captain, he thought that the captain was displeased with him, so he glanced between the captain and Lirian with a look of uncertainty.
Should he approach again or should he just explain, soon enough his mind was made up, he rather face the guillotine than approach Lirian again.
He looked to his captain with eyes filled with resolve, "Captain what I'm about to say I swear is no lie,"
"But I'd rather take a bath in a sewer than approach that man ever again,"
"For his stench is so bad, it could kill an orc in its tracks," the soldier cried out, he recalled that moment when he approached the stench threatened to overwhelm his every sense, if he took another breath he suspected that he would have died.
He chanced a glance of pity at the poor soldier who lay on the ground, in his eyes even if the soldier survived, he be left with a trauma no man could recover from, just the thought of the stench was making him shudder in fright.
The captain's eyes twitched in their sockets, and her lungs threatened to burst from the anger she felt, she was actually doubting her own abilities, because of a man's stench.
"Cheers!" Lirian shouted and splashed more ale into his mouth, "For you have survived what even an orc cannot," Lirian laughed happily and jeered.
The soldier face went red in anger, as the other soldiers all laughed on at their comrade's expanse, only the captain's face showed no humour.
She quickly scanned through the barrels behind Lirian and looked at him with a raised brow, 'He couldn't have drunk all of that by himself, he'd be dead,' she thought to herself.
Just then Lirian felt his mug run dry, "Hey www-wwwould one of you be a dd-ddear and fill this up for me?" Lirian asked the soldiers while holding the mug high, or at least as high as the earthen pillory allowed him to extend his hand.
"I can't leave untilllll I fffffinish drinking allllllll my friends," Lirian whispered.
The soldiers glanced between the barrels and Lirian with strange gazes, "You saying you drank all of those," a soldier asked sceptically while keeping her distance.
"Just, me, myself and I," Lirian said proudly and smiled happily.
"Would anyone like to j-j-j-join me? I onlyyyy have three… friends left to finish," Lirian offered.
"Then I… can leave, who'd l-l-like to help this blindman?" Lirian asked and offered them his mug once more.
The captain's eyes glinted as she realised something, this was the second time Lirian mentioned that he couldn't leave until he finished all the barrels of ale.
"Are you being punished by your superior who devastated this village? Why can't you leave until you finish all the ale? What happened here?" she asked in a sever tone, she was thinking that he was some human trained by the orcs to act as a spy, and he was being punished for some mistake he made.
Lirian faced the captain with a smug smile and offered her his mug, his intention clear he wouldn't answer if she didn't give him his ale.
A cold smile appeared on her face and she slowly closed her palms, immediately the earth pillory started to tighten around Lirian and he started to sink into the earth, a short while later all that remained above ground was his head and two hands that were locked by the pillory that was digging into his skin.
However the captain's frown only deepened the further Lirian sunk, forget about screaming or begging for mercy, he didn't even show the slightest trace of panic as he was buried alive.
'Either he is really brave or he must be so drunk, that he can't even realise his life is in danger,' she reasoned with her self but then she saw that taunting smile, which was aimed directly at her and despite the awkward angle Lirian was still holding the mug out to her.
The captain bit back a curse and pointed to the soldier who had spoken to Lirian, "You fill his mug," she said in an irritated voice.
"But…" the soldier started to complain, she saw one comrade feint and another who claimed that a bath in a sewer was more appealing.
"Hold your breath and block your nose!" the captain shouted in annoyance.
A short while later, Lirian happily splashed more ale into his mouth as the soldier fell to her hands and knees, while involuntarily gagging.
"Now answer my questions," the captain said coldly.
Lirian chuckled between gulps and raised a finger on his free hand, "Firstly, this god take's orders from no one, not even the heavens are my superior," Lirian declared loudly. but everyone took it as the ramblings of a very drunk mad man.
"Secondly," Lirian said raising another finger and brought it as close to his lips as possible, "Sssh, you have to promise to keep it a secret," he said with a twinkling smile.
The captains entire face started to twitch, she could tell he wanted her to promise to keep it a secret, even his first answer was complete dog crap in her opinion.
After a long while of gritting her teeth, she decided to entertain his childish antics, this was the only living person she found that could know about what happened, she could always resort to torture, but that was a last resort thing, and she'd rather do it with the lord present.
"I promise to keep it a secret," she spat out.
"You pppromise on your honour as a captain?" Lirian asked innocently, causing her to open her eyes wide, he was so drunk that she didn't expect him to realise that she was a captain, evidently she had underestimated him.
"On my honour as a captain of House Kurt," she said seriously, and looked at Lirian in a new light.
Lirian motioned with his hand for her to come closer, she still looked sceptical but she walked closer to Lirian while holding her breath and brought her ear close to Lirian's mouth.
"It was the heavens," Lirian whispered, "The heavens… told me to drink… all this ale… to wait for you," Lirian whispered in a serious tone, "Captain Reyna of House Kurt."
Captain Reyna's eyes shrunk as she looked at Lirian in surprise, she didn't introduce herself to him and none of the soldiers called her anything other than captain.
She looked at the blindfold sceptically, thinking that maybe Lirian was someone who had seen her from afar and recognised her, after all she would have remembered meeting such a handsome man.
She was a private person and rarely ever spoke unless necessary when in the public, there was no way that anyone who didn't know her personally or wasn't part of her squad would recognise her from her voice alone.
She reached out and pulled of the blindfold, and she was completely mesmerized by the sight of those silver eyes, that seemed to glow with the light of the stars, it took her a while to finally realise that she was distracted from her original task.
She pulled back her wondering thoughts and dragged a ball of flame around in front of Lirian's eyes, after a few seconds she realised that there was no pupil response to the intense light, it appeared that Lirian really was blind.
"How do you know who I am?" she asked seriously.
"I told you… hic… the heavens told me," Lirian said with a mad laugh as he got the hiccups, "The heavens want you… to take me with you," Lirian said with a grin.
A cold shudder passed through Captain Reyna's body, there was something about Lirian that was drawing her in, but more than that there was a feeling of utter terror that she couldn't explain.
It was like every fibre in her being was shouting danger, screaming at her to get away from the man in front of her, that bringing him back to the estate of House Kurt would bring about its ruin.
Her every sense was telling her that the one responsible for turning this village into an abandoned wreck was right before her eyes, it was like he was a beautiful monster, that could peer into the depths of her soul.
The captain narrowed her eyes, as her squad looked at Lirian with high alert.She could tell that her soldier was only unconscious, but she couldn't understand why!She didn't see Lirian do anything out of the ordinary, and there was certainly nothing special that she could feel about Lirian, which caused her frown to deepen."You!" she pointed to one of her soldiers, "Approach him, but do so with caution if you detect anything strange back away," she ordered.Everyone cast gazes of pity at the unfortunate soldier who looked at Lirian with terror.Felling the gazes of pity he cast a gloomy look to his fellow comrades, 'If you guys really felt sorry for me, then one of you would take my place,' he inwardly cursed at his squad members as he walked forward slowly.He carefully approached the point where the last soldier fell unconscious and took a shaky step forward, but almost immediately he back tracked with the agility of a cat."What happened?" the captain asked with an ever-growing frown, she hadn't detected anything again, yet it seemed that her soldiers did, which was making her mood turn foul.The soldier felt sweat trickle down his back as he detected the displeasure of his captain, he thought that the captain was displeased with him, so he glanced between the captain and Lirian with a look of uncertainty.Should he approach again or should he just explain, soon enough his mind was made up, he rather face the guillotine than approach Lirian again.He looked to his captain with eyes filled with resolve, "Captain what I'm about to say I swear is no lie,""But I'd rather take a bath in a sewer than approach that man ever again,""For his stench is so bad, it could kill an orc in its tracks," the soldier cried out, he recalled that moment when he approached the stench threatened to overwhelm his every sense, if he took another breath he suspected that he would have died.He chanced a glance of pity at the poor soldier who lay on the ground, in his eyes even if the soldier survived, he be left with a trauma no man could recover from, just the thought of the stench was making him shudder in fright.The captain's eyes twitched in their sockets, and her lungs threatened to burst from the anger she felt, she was actually doubting her own abilities, because of a man's stench."Cheers!" Lirian shouted and splashed more ale into his mouth, "For you have survived what even an orc cannot," Lirian laughed happily and jeered.The soldier face went red in anger, as the other soldiers all laughed on at their comrade's expanse, only the captain's face showed no humour.She quickly scanned through the barrels behind Lirian and looked at him with a raised brow, 'He couldn't have drunk all of that by himself, he'd be dead,' she thought to herself.Just then Lirian felt his mug run dry, "Hey www-wwwould one of you be a dd-ddear and fill this up for me?" Lirian asked the soldiers while holding the mug high, or at least as high as the earthen pillory allowed him to extend his hand."I can't leave untilllll I fffffinish drinking allllllll my friends," Lirian whispered.The soldiers glanced between the barrels and Lirian with strange gazes, "You saying you drank all of those," a soldier asked sceptically while keeping her distance."Just, me, myself and I," Lirian said proudly and smiled happily."Would anyone like to j-j-j-join me? I onlyyyy have three friends left to finish," Lirian offered."Then I can leave, who'd l-l-like to help this blindman?" Lirian asked and offered them his mug once more.The captain's eyes glinted as she realised something, this was the second time Lirian mentioned that he couldn't leave until he finished all the barrels of ale."Are you being punished by your superior who devastated this village? Why can't you leave until you finish all the ale? What happened here?" she asked in a sever tone, she was thinking that he was some human trained by the orcs to act as a spy, and he was being punished for some mistake he made.Lirian faced the captain with a smug smile and offered her his mug, his intention clear he wouldn't answer if she didn't give him his ale.A cold smile appeared on her face and she slowly closed her palms, immediately the earth pillory started to tighten around Lirian and he started to sink into the earth, a short while later all that remained above ground was his head and two hands that were locked by the pillory that was digging into his skin.However the captain's frown only deepened the further Lirian sunk, forget about screaming or begging for mercy, he didn't even show the slightest trace of panic as he was buried alive.'Either he is really brave or he must be so drunk, that he can't even realise his life is in danger,' she reasoned with her self but then she saw that taunting smile, which was aimed directly at her and despite the awkward angle Lirian was still holding the mug out to her.The captain bit back a curse and pointed to the soldier who had spoken to Lirian, "You fill his mug," she said in an irritated voice."But" the soldier started to complain, she saw one comrade feint and another who claimed that a bath in a sewer was more appealing."Hold your breath and block your nose!" the captain shouted in annoyance.A short while later, Lirian happily splashed more ale into his mouth as the soldier fell to her hands and knees, while involuntarily gagging."Now answer my questions," the captain said coldly.Lirian chuckled between gulps and raised a finger on his free hand, "Firstly, this god take's orders from no one, not even the heavens are my superior," Lirian declared loudly. but everyone took it as the ramblings of a very drunk mad man."Secondly," Lirian said raising another finger and brought it as close to his lips as possible, "Sssh, you have to promise to keep it a secret," he said with a twinkling smile.The captains entire face started to twitch, she could tell he wanted her to promise to keep it a secret, even his first answer was complete dog crap in her opinion.After a long while of gritting her teeth, she decided to entertain his childish antics, this was the only living person she found that could know about what happened, she could always resort to torture, but that was a last resort thing, and she'd rather do it with the lord present."I promise to keep it a secret," she spat out."You pppromise on your honour as a captain?" Lirian asked innocently, causing her to open her eyes wide, he was so drunk that she didn't expect him to realise that she was a captain, evidently she had underestimated him."On my honour as a captain of House Kurt," she said seriously, and looked at Lirian in a new light.Lirian motioned with his hand for her to come closer, she still looked sceptical but she walked closer to Lirian while holding her breath and brought her ear close to Lirian's mouth."It was the heavens," Lirian whispered, "The heavens told me to drink all this ale to wait for you," Lirian whispered in a serious tone, "Captain Reyna of House Kurt."Captain Reyna's eyes shrunk as she looked at Lirian in surprise, she didn't introduce herself to him and none of the soldiers called her anything other than captain.She looked at the blindfold sceptically, thinking that maybe Lirian was someone who had seen her from afar and recognised her, after all she would have remembered meeting such a handsome man.She was a private person and rarely ever spoke unless necessary when in the public, there was no way that anyone who didn't know her personally or wasn't part of her squad would recognise her from her voice alone.She reached out and pulled of the blindfold, and she was completely mesmerized by the sight of those silver eyes, that seemed to glow with the light of the stars, it took her a while to finally realise that she was distracted from her original task.She pulled back her wondering thoughts and dragged a ball of flame around in front of Lirian's eyes, after a few seconds she realised that there was no pupil response to the intense light, it appeared that Lirian really was blind."How do you know who I am?" she asked seriously."I told you hic the heavens told me," Lirian said with a mad laugh as he got the hiccups, "The heavens want you to take me with you," Lirian said with a grin.A cold shudder passed through Captain Reyna's body, there was something about Lirian that was drawing her in, but more than that there was a feeling of utter terror that she couldn't explain.It was like every fibre in her being was shouting danger, screaming at her to get away from the man in front of her, that bringing him back to the estate of House Kurt would bring about its ruin.Her every sense was telling her that the one responsible for turning this village into an abandoned wreck was right before her eyes, it was like he was a beautiful monster, that could peer into the depths of her soul.
