Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24736819-20141208164428/@comment-5583506-20150103224759

Belinda readied herself. It was only a matter of time before Kashmira would reach the hiding spot, and she didn't want to go down like a coward. Instead she jumped out in front of the Khajiit with her sword raised.

"Surprise, you Khajiiti bitch!" she roared.

Kashmira looked with contempt on the young Imperial woman. "I ain't got time to play games with you, kid. Stand aside and I won't spill your guts out."

Belinda shook her heads and couldn't help that tears of stress and fear streamed from her eyes. "I... I won't! I knew all along what you were! Just another bad apple which the Masters should have tossed away before it turned all too rotten and spoiled the barrel."

She looked around on her slaughtered comrades. "And you have spoiled the barrel! The Masters would have done this world a favor if they had just thrown you down in a well as a baby!"

Kashmira shot her eyes open in pure rage and charged at the Imperial woman. "You... you little twat!" she snarled. "How dare you talk to me like that?!"

Belinda successfully parried the attack, but more out of pure instinct than skill. She collapsed to the ground on her back due to the force of the blow and moaned in pain.

"Get up", growled the Khajiit lowly.

Belinda's legs were locked in fear. "I... I can't!"

"Get up and fight me", said Kashmira. threatingly. "If you truly stand for what you said, you will get up and fight me! Or else I will run you through like the rest of your pathetic friends!"

Belinda struggled to get up, but felt that her legs wouldn't obey her. When she finally managed to stand up she quivered and her sword wavered from side to side, unable to remain steady. "I am... I am sorry!" she said. "I didn't mean it... Please... don't... I didn't mean..."

"You did", replied Kashmira and started to walk slowly towards the Imperial. "Whenever someone says 'I didn't mean it' they are lying to themselves. If they once have said it reveals what they were actually thinking."

"Don't kill me", begged Belinda. "Please, don't..."

Belinda's words for mercy ended with a dampened snivel as Kashmira's sword ran through the abdomen of the Imperial. The young woman's eyes were teared and stared blank and empty out in the open as if she was looking for someone to save her. Someone who was never there...

Kashmira slowly pulled her sword from Belinda's body as the Imperial collapsed to the ground with her robes fluttering in the air.

As Kashmira continued her march through the hallway she began to feel something sting in her eyes.

Suppressed anger, she told herself as she refused to acknowledge the fact that she was actually weeping for the dead...