Foulques scowled. "Kheda'a Chalahko," he said. "The man who orchestrated the plot to steal from the Lancer's Guild. And the first to turn on me after I confessed. When I spoke of someone bringing up their lack of surprise that 'the Duskwight' was involved, I was quoting him, word for word. And when I begged him to tell the truth, he called me 'ashkin' and shoved me to the ground."
"'Ashkin', lest you wonder, is a general scholarly term for the undead in my world," he explained bitterly. "But it's found other use as a foul name to be used on Duskwights, as our pale or blue-gray skintones supposedly resemble them."
His hands balled into enraged fists. "More than once I ate dinner at this man's home," he all but snarled. "I attended his sister's wedding at his side! And still, still he...!" He cut himself off before it could devolve into a rant, taking a deep breath. "I don't know if those were always his true feelings. Or if not, at what point his heart changed. But no single moment has ever been more painful than to look into the eyes of a man I had called a brother and realize that he had wished me so much evil."
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Date: 2025-05-26 05:25 am (UTC)From:"'Ashkin', lest you wonder, is a general scholarly term for the undead in my world," he explained bitterly. "But it's found other use as a foul name to be used on Duskwights, as our pale or blue-gray skintones supposedly resemble them."
His hands balled into enraged fists. "More than once I ate dinner at this man's home," he all but snarled. "I attended his sister's wedding at his side! And still, still he...!" He cut himself off before it could devolve into a rant, taking a deep breath. "I don't know if those were always his true feelings. Or if not, at what point his heart changed. But no single moment has ever been more painful than to look into the eyes of a man I had called a brother and realize that he had wished me so much evil."