<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=29334.msg1114231#msg1114231">Quote from: EmrysMindscape on 05-02-2009, 02:51:13</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The barrister did not move. He hovered at the door ready to make a quick escape if needed. He was finding this man less appealing now that he did not have the stage to seperate himself from his devilish ways. He fumbled with the papers that he had brought and had to take a deep breath. <br/><strong><br/>"I am sorry to inform you that Captain Joss passed aw....away just the other day. As it..ends up he left you and others members of the crew...the...well the ship and all that is inside. Now..I know the ship is currently g...grounded but once the war is done you will be free to do with it .....well do with it as you will." </strong><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong>"As I predicted, so it is come. Once more may his spirit escape this cage of flesh and travel the pathways of the sky, ascending into the heavens or tumbling down to hell. Leave those papers. Once more the darkness will escape these chains and soar again."</strong><br/><br/>The light from the candle seemed to dim, almost on cue, the already dark room barely visable now, only David's pale face able to be made out. It was a dismissal, that was clear.<br/><br/>David had established himself here. It was not a "bad life" as the commoners called it. But it was suffocating. David de Sabre, Lord of the Blackest Night, reduced to a social accessory, the latest "must have" for dinner parties, the person to twitter about and say you must go to see when he next has a show. All while shackled by the rules of society, rules that barred him from showing his full skills and abilities. He had no love for Joss, but he carried little love for anyone. He had a home on the Last Laugh, but he had paid for that with the crowds he drew. Still he had experienced a sense of fraternity he rarely found amung that crew, forced together as they drifted through the sky. Here he was a man there, but far more of a man apart here. The chance to escape these chains would not be one he'd give up.