Charm a Relic

Chapter Twenty Nine: The Tigris Who Wore White Armor

The infirmary was on the other side of the Castle it was a white room with many beds, there were nurses walking around attending to patients, many of which were the wounded soldiers and rescued Tigris that had arrived with Sam and his friends earlier that day.

One particular patient Sam noticed was the old Tigris who was still wearing the oxygen mask. Reegan and Toido came by earlier to speak with the nurses about keeping the mask on his face. Reegan had aided Toido to reiterate his explanation that the mask was healing him and not to remove it until he said it was time.

The old man turned his head to look at Sam as he approached. Sam asked the nurse if he could speak with him. The mask did not obstruct his eyes so Sam could tell he was looking at him.

"Hey I'm Sam!" He said to introduce himself.

The old Tigris eyes widened and he tried to lean forward.

"Sa. . . . . .Siam. . ." Is what Sam thought he heard the old man was saying before his eyes closed and he fell back to sleep. Tafficious was standing next to Sam looking over the old one.

"I assume he came from one of the other Tigris lands that had fallen. It was many years ago when we lost contact with them. When the Grotesques began to conquer the world beyond our borders. We believe it is the dark sorcerer Andruin who commands the Grotesques!" Tafficious explained.

"Andruin? Tafficious can you tell me about him?" Sam asked.

"It was a long time ago. . . I was out on a hunt with the King when he found two soldiers wandering lost in the mountains. They wore strange armour, one white and one red. We believed them to be in league with our enemy that lives underground," Tafficious explained as June and Rufus moved in to listen as well.

"They were cold and hungry and so they did not attack our party. I thought for sure we would take them as prisoners but our King saw a great talent in them, he took it upon himself to become their teacher. One of them his name was Andruin. He was wearing the red armour, the other his name was Aughustus, he wore a white armour,"

"Aughustus?" Sam asked.

"You fur less mountain folk truly must be from another world if you do not know of Aughustus. After many year of living here in Catlinburg under King LyrAndal's tutelage he discarded his armour. He revealed to us that he was a very powerful Tigris warrior and a brilliant engineer, we have him to thank for providing us with the amplification towers that have protected our borders along the walls," Tafficious said pointing to the gate and the towers along the wall which was all visible from the infirmaries large windows.

"And our Queen who was then at the time a princess took a liking to Aughustus and they grew close. . . . He is the father of Princess Candillice,"

"But Andruin! He never showed us his true form under the armour. . . . He too was a very powerful student but he craved power. He became obsessed with our relics, he wanted to learn how they were made so he could fashion one of his own design. . . . . ."

"After the King disappeared Andruin began to gather the relics to keep them for himself. He told the council it was for safe keeping and that was when he committed the most atrocious deeds it really is too upsetting to tell you what he had done. . . . . Afterwards he absconded taking some of our relics and we have not seen him since."

"Visiting hours are over!" A nurse interrupted and they all saw that it was getting late. Carlyle had his paw disinfected, they used a sort of glue on the cut and gave him a bandage to wrap around his paw.He had other injuries as well because apparently some of the Queens generals had roughed him up. However they said Carlyle was good to go home and sleep in his new housing arrangement that was set up by the council for the Prophetigress Protectors.