Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5824038-20150203191459/@comment-5583506-20150219164057

(The truth unveiled!)

"Tell me all about what happened to you", said Valkyrie. She had given the rebel the helmet as it was clear to her that the person lying in her bed couldn't feel safe without it.

People come to identify themselves with the masks they wear, she speculated. This is Wraith, yet again it's not...

"Where should I start?" mumbled the wounded noble. "I suppose... that my new identity must have taken form when my step-mother sold me to the Council of Nobles."

The noble coughed some incoherent word which sounded like 'bitch'.

"The Council of Nobles sought for children back then... Children they could test their new sickening experiments on... And preferably children born from... well, lower qualities than themselves..."

Valkyrie looked out from the windows upon the still-smoking city. The sun was breaking through the dark grey clouds to reveal the destructions.

"I see", she mumbled, seemingly disturbed by the fact.

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">"They experimented on me Valkyrie, they drugged me and used all manner of unspeakable methods on me, ultimately rendering a result which they had so long worked on to achieve, yet had not anticipated."

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">The noble rubbed the helmet, where the eyes were. "A blue and a green eye... sounds familiar?"

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">Valkyrie lowered her head in shame. "I... didn't know what they were back then. I didn't know what they intended to do. They told me they wanted to make the world a better place by letting people share my 'intellect'. Foolish as I was I let them have a sample of my blood... I am sorry... Had I known how they were going to use it, I would have..."

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">The rebel didn't respond. "They granted me your intellectual gift and mixed it with some devilry of their own. They wanted to create an ultimate weapon that would win the heart of the masses and then destroy them."

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">Wraith sighed. "In the end, they just created a freak. A normal human being shouldn't possess this curse. The curse to make people do things against their given nature."

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">"I am sorry", repeated Valkyrie. "You are who you are because of... me..."

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">Suddenly the rebel gave out a short laugh. "Aye. That I am. Haven't you forgotten something?" <span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;line-height:16.5pt;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:16.5pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">Valkyrie turned to the bed. <span style="line-height:16.5pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:16.5pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">"It was you who set me free, Valkyrie. I did not know back then that it was your blood which had been the cause of my increased intellect, nor that it was your blood mutated with whatever witchcraft they made me endure, that had given me the gift of hypnosis. But I know that you were the one who released me. As soon as a new case came up on your desk; a case involving several missing children, you broke into the laboratory and killed our captors. You released us: the children from our cages; and then you burned the hell to the ground. It was from that moment I knew whom I wanted to become. I could only see you..." <span style="line-height:16.5pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">The rebel reached the hand out for Valkyrie by the window. <span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;line-height:16.5pt;">

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">Valkyrie felt a tear run down her cheek. <span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;line-height:16.5pt;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">"You were my ideal woman", said Wraith. "Not only were you a noble, but a noble who cared for us commoners. I was born as a half-breed. My father was noble, my mother was not. In the eyes of society I was therefore always considered a commoner. But there you were. A noblewoman... coming to liberate us from the clutches of evil nobles. The Ghost-Wolf..."

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">Wraith shrugged and looked at the helmet. Tears were dripping onto its scratched surface. "Is everything clear now, my dear Valkyrie? You created me. As a half-breed I was nothing but an animal whom the nobles could torture as they pleased, but when I was freed by the noble wolf, I had a plan set in motion. I would become just as you. A noble, fighting for the common cause. I even had the helmet made in your honor and my name... my name..."

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">Valkyrie wanted to ask the rebel to stop. It was too painful to hear. This... lost child wasn't more to blame for the crimes committed than she was. She was responsible for the suffering and deaths of countless of commonborn children. Yet one of the experiments born from her blood had yielded result and it was lying there in her bed, preaching about how she was considered to be an "ideal woman" in the eyes of the rebel.

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