Darkness Befell Us

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Karth (narration)

I turned and looked at Rik and there were gasps and murmuring around the huge room at what he said, "Repeat that!" I said as I felt almost as if fear was taking over my body, those are times I do not want to remember they were hard times I try every day to forget and most times I cannot even sleep, that's how much of trauma I had

The Dagorth attacked our state years ago but the one thing that traumatizes me most is the thought of their queen, I do not know why but I always get this feeling that she is still alive and waiting for the right moment to come back and haunt us

"We think some etocrites survived Karth, I know they were hard times and we all try to forget them but that is the truth," he said coming close to me

"What makes you think some survived all of them died including their queen?" I questioned looking back at him

"Can we talk......just us?" he asked looking at Noth and Farath, "We can but Noth and Farath are coming with me too," I said looking at him and he looked at me in the eyes and just nodded as to get the situation over with

When we got to a smaller room with a table and seats we all took our seats he sat on the other side with his second in command while Noth, Farath and I sat opposite, "So what makes you think some etocrites survived?" I asked with a raised eyebrow,

"Look Karth first off they could easily survive because one they are etocrites and two we found an etocrite body on our border with a mark on it and some words which stated "LONG END SHALL ARRIVE"

He said seriously and from then on I knew this was serious it must be the queen sending that message, I remember when I drove my sword through the Dagorth queen's chest the last thing she said is what has given me trauma all these years

"You remember what she said before her last breath," Farath looked at me with fear and I looked back at him with the same look I always wanted to forget what she said but I just cannot I could not even bring myself to tell Nen about it

Rik looked at the both of us and asked the long awaited question, "What.....what did she say?" ,"Long end shall arrive," I said as I looked at Rik whose eyes widened and he stated, "Well are we going to wait for destiny to arrive or try to fight it huh?" he asked resting his arms on the table,

"Obviously we can come up with a plan with my security duty so do the same Rik because every tribe for themselves right," I said recalling how the leader of the Karan tribe clearly stated that to me when the Dagorth attacked us

"In any case we the Hnerez are the ones who suffered most because the war was in our tribe while everyone did not give us any support," I said looking at Rik

"And that is why I came here I know that the war was majorly here and that is why we came to inform you about this because clearly the queen is coming for you Karth, and that's where the Xasv deal comes in, you give us a piece of your metal we make armory for this long awaited war and also majorly because this time they might attack all the other tribes too," he said trying to convince me

"We would like to organize a meeting with the leaders of every tribe to find a solution to this situation," he said looking at us,

"So that is why you want Xasv huh?" I asked and looked at them, "....and also why didn't your leader come with you?" I asked him simply, "He did not come because he trusts in me to handle everything so that is why I am here," he says and I can't help but see his point

"Basically we do not want to fight you for that metal because now we accepted it belongs to this tribe and we will not try to take it away we just want to improve our weapons because we have heard you use it to improve your weapons and also have this cool technology I have been seeing since we arrived here," he said looking around and finally ended with asking,