Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5543592-20160815191145/@comment-5543592-20160818002722

Daireg turned to swing the Shehai at her, looking surprised by Miri's attack

It was unclear what happened, perhaps his thought had been disrupted, or maybe he'd just lost focus, because his sword disappated into nothing.

Miri's blade sunk through Daireg's abdomin, halfway up the blade, the rest of it pointing out his back read with blood.

The Redguard gasped eyes going wide, blood dribbling out of the corners of his mouth. He looked ghoulish, in the red light cast by the lava below and around them.

"Impossible...  I..." He choked, the surprise at his own demise visible on his face. Daireg's features suddenly contorted in rage and a sick cross between and grin and grimace spread across his blodoy face.

"I won't." He growled, pulling Miri's sword through his stomach, up to the hilt, so they were face to face. He spat his blood into her eyes, his hand shot out, gripping the line that was still around her throat, holding her so that she couldn't retreat.

He wiped out his second dagger from behind his back and brought it around to her neck, planning to slash her throat from ear to ear. He laughed, spitting up more blood, the twitching and shaking of his eyes finally revealing how made he really was.

His arm stopped halfway to her throat and his face went slack. The dagger dropped his hands, clicked off the rocks, and fell into the lava.

"I-I can't..." He whispered, as the light faded from his eyes. Daireg's hand slipped from Miri's wrist and he slid backwards off the blade with a disgustingly wet noise, and then rolled down the steep incline of the rocks with a few dull thumps, before dropping into the lava. His body burned quickly as it was consumed by the fire, his skin blackening and as the rest of him charred to nothing.

And Miri was alone on the mountainside with her clothing tattered and scortched, skin black with ash and soot, and the heat rising around.