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Scarlet Breeze
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I don't owe you anything. Not after this. No debt would be large enough to warrant this as payment. I'm not a religious girl--no, I'm not a religious woman. I don't pray. I don't ask for favors. I spend too much of my life doing what I have to do to clean my father's debt, I know better than to go accruing my own. I'm smarter than this and I deserve better and you know it. But I did what you said anyway. I guess I hoped I could prove it.
Just this once. Three words that have sent lesser people on the road to ruin, but I am out of options and I need this. This time, there's no clever solution, no easy way out, not even a hard way out. I'm praying--I'm praying, me, for a hard way out. I'll even bring myself so low as to say I wasn't born into deserving the easy. I will give you that concession today, the only thing I have left. I never ask you for anything. Any god, all gods, help me. Just this once.
What is this?
Kalin Felshaw, your prayer is heard.
Did I hear a voice?
Belyssia hears your plea and acts on your behalf.
I feel warm.
I offer you a choice.
Who's there?
Belyssia, Goddess of Love and Harvest offers you power.
I hear the Hymn of Spring...
Do you accept?
Belyssia?
I offer you a choice.
Why Belyssia?
Heehee hee!
There is no choice. I accept.
It is done.
I hear a click, from that...from that damn snakeman lock..and...
I feel
I feel
good.
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