Boris (Diemen) (59)

29-9-2011 22:25:00

Naar aanleiding van de prijsvraag 13.0 heb ik een kort verhaaltje geschreven over deze kaart hier, en aangezien dit vrij lang was post ik het maar hier.

She made her way through the thick bushes. Suddenly she felt a sharp sting in her leg. Those thorns were awful! Usually she would never have gone through the wood of Fennheim alone, so close to the Stensia border. But today was different. She was exited because today she would finally hear the truth. She knew that Valden, the stranger who had come to town recently, would only tell it to her because she felt he trusted her more than anyone else. She just knew he was speaking the truth. Today she would hear the story of her youth, why her parents abandoned her when she was a baby.

Suddenly she heard a crack not far away, and she turned her head towards the direction where the sound came from. There was a dim, bluish light shining through the trees and a voice said "here, I'm here!". She recognised Valden's voice, and moved towards the sound. There was a small glade between the trees, and the blue light seemed to come from a large man-sized cup filld with a glowing liquid. She stepped in the light and Valden's deep, but calming voice sounded from behind the cup. "I'm glad you came. Now everything is finished." he said, and he threw something in the cup, although she couldn't see what.
"What are you doing?" she said, a bit frightened of the strange object. As a child she had learned to fear unfamiliar things, which was a reliable guide in the dark forests of Innistrad. "you were the last piece in the puzzle, and since you were born you brought us nothing but bad luck. And then those Avacynians came and took you away from me. They didn't have the right!" he replied furiously."I don't understand" she said "you said you knew who my parents were!". He remained silent, and meanwhile she looked better at the cup, which was made from shining metal.

A loud noise came from the cup so suddenly, that she startled and fell backwards on the ground. Valden didn't seem to pay any attention to her and she looked better around her. With a shock she discovered that there was someone lying near a tree, and she looked at the face of the other person. She recognised her little brother's body, lying lifelessly on the forest ground! All she did was run, run like she never ran before. With a splash, she suddenly stepped in a wet moor, and she screamed but she seemed to be paralyzed by the cold water. Two strong hands picked her up with force, and Valden said with an evil voice: NO ONE TAKES MY OWN CHILDREN FROM ME! And suddenly she knew who her father was and why she was taken away, and her scream cut through the air like a blade through raw flesh!