"I'm not done," I replied calmly, my own gaze fixed on the point where her knee met my thigh. "You need to hear the rest." It only got worse from there.
"The one I was sold to was the leader of a very small country called Drujan. I never learned his real name; I suspect he himself did not remember it. We only knew him as the Mahrkagir. He and his followers had turned that place into one of darkness and evil, where death was sown in the place of life. They had cast off the ways of their god Ahura Mazda and followed instead Angra Mainyu. Ill thoughts, ill words, ill deeds. It was a living hell. I lived as a slave in the zenana for close to a year, before they came."
I paused then, thinking of how I'd spat in her face the first time I saw her. "Phedre and Joscelin. They went willingly into that hell and by the grace of Elua, we made it out. Phedre killed the Mahrkagir herself, with a hair pin." I had watched Joscelin kill Jagun; I helped him do it. "And it was then, after leaving that place, that I discovered who I truly am - a Prince of the Blood, third in line for the throne, and the son of Terre d'Ange's deadliest traitor, Melisande Shahrizai."
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Date: 2012-05-09 07:10 am (UTC)"The one I was sold to was the leader of a very small country called Drujan. I never learned his real name; I suspect he himself did not remember it. We only knew him as the Mahrkagir. He and his followers had turned that place into one of darkness and evil, where death was sown in the place of life. They had cast off the ways of their god Ahura Mazda and followed instead Angra Mainyu. Ill thoughts, ill words, ill deeds. It was a living hell. I lived as a slave in the zenana for close to a year, before they came."
I paused then, thinking of how I'd spat in her face the first time I saw her. "Phedre and Joscelin. They went willingly into that hell and by the grace of Elua, we made it out. Phedre killed the Mahrkagir herself, with a hair pin." I had watched Joscelin kill Jagun; I helped him do it. "And it was then, after leaving that place, that I discovered who I truly am - a Prince of the Blood, third in line for the throne, and the son of Terre d'Ange's deadliest traitor, Melisande Shahrizai."