<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=82056.msg4013657#msg4013657">Quote from: MadPanda on 14-12-2010, 18:31:32</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Although Adjia's face is hidden behind her mask, Salaris can hear her smile.<br/><br/>"Flensing sounds almost appropriate.  With or without salt water to cleanse the blood away?  Perhaps an inch at a time...no, he surely would not last so long as a real man..."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Salaris almost drops his cargo laughing.<br/>"Hear that, brother? You need a wife like that to teach you to be hard with the likes of this one!"<br/>He turns to Adjia as much as carrying a man allows.<br/>"My big brother dislikes such forms of punishment. To him, a fast death is just as good for any enemy. I tell him it's a sign of being a softie..."<br/>"He'd be just as dead if we only strangle him", the big Yermy opens his mouth for the first time. He turns out to possess a deep, booming voice. "A dead enemy is one that's no longer after you. A tortured one is a guy that you lost extra time with. I have better uses for my time".<br/>He then grows silent again.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=82056.msg4011002#msg4011002">Quote from: Leorobin on 14-12-2010, 01:48:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Kalaj imited himself to bow his head again and followed the sarista, keeping an eye on the Aamanian and a claw at ready. His other claw had the Aamanians book held from a corner while the waterskin and the orb found a place amongst the pockets of his cloak. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>The book is heavy. More than one claw might be necessary, since it looks like it's bound with iron, and the pages are likely parchment or another heavy material.<br/>Neither the waterskin nor the orb look significant in any way.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=82056.msg4013004#msg4013004">Quote from: Petrosity on 14-12-2010, 14:07:10</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Aevala especially agreed with the Sarista Elders when they carried the same feelings as most of the rest of their kin--giving rather harsh punishments to those that wronged one of their blue-skinned brothers. Especially given the gruesome murder on such an eventful occansion, Aevala imagined that Elders would not be very merciful, if at all towards the Aamanian. <br/><br/>She watched as the brothers undid the murderer's shackles and carried him away like an unwanted object. A small smirk lined her lips in approval before allowing her eyes to fall along the brothers' forms, astounded by their strength and ease at halling the prisoner. Her smile only grew as she enjoyed the view from behind as she followed the brothers with the Jaka.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>The guys are not strongmen, at least not like the ones that bend iron bars on a market day. Salaris is wiry, but fit and strong. Yermy looks more like a man of slow power, but a relentless one, the kind of guy that can fall after a day of travel that was too much for him, but will fall forward.<br/>Overall, they are a match for each other.<br/><br/>While Salaris is chatting up Adjia, and showing a great knowledge on the various ways to cause pain, they go for the same clearing. It is obvious the discussion is not even concerning the fate of the captive. Most of the clan is in a circle around the three elders in the centre.<br/>"I tell you he might as well die tomorrow!", a middle-aged Sarista claims. "But my daughter's wedding day was chosen to be today with the help of an astromancer, and much did I pay for this advice! Keep him closed, and settle his fate tomorrow, after the wedding!"<br/>His words are met with approval from a group of Sarista in especially bright, especially luxurious clothes.<br/>"Bah!", an older woman answers. "A good omen that will be, having a bound man waiting for his death after your daughter's marriage! Delaying justice in order to perform the rite! No, I say, get him here, let's spill his blood to appease the spirits of the slain... it's not our fault that you'd have to pay another astromancer! It's the madman you have to blame for it, as we blame him for the death of our kin and family!"<br/>Another group, obviously blood relatives of the victims, applaud this. The man looks grieved.<br/>"Are you implying I'm not in grief for the loss of my niece, and my nephew? But that's what Fate had in store for them. We have to honour her choice with resuming our way of life, and not allowing a madman to change it! Sarista always honour Fate with dancing, singing and revelry, even if many more madmen are lurking in the shadows..."<br/>And on the grass, there are three bodies, including the girl you found earlier. Another you haven't seen, but she could be her sister... and given that's a Sarista clan, she's probably a relative anyway. And then there is a boy, who might have been sixteen or so, but will never have another birthday. All of them are killed with big, deep cuts through the torso, it seems.<br/>The quarrel between the two keeps going in a theatrical fashion, each side showing apparent emotions and just as apparent oratory talent. The elder who sent Salaris and Yermy is trying in vain to calm them down.