A tale of two kingdoms_part 15 - Lakan
Lakan twisted and turned, his body burning from the inside. His mind felt split open and as if someone were pouring burning oil into the wound. He had been through this a lot of late. His dreams induced more dread than peace and with each passing day he felt himself grow more numb from the pain. Where he would wake up screaming for hours he now only sat still. Shaking and clutching his sinewy arms. What had once been the body of a young man in his prime was reduced to a sick frame with deeply sunken eyes. The pendant on his chest had lost all its shine and now seemed to radiate darkness. Ones eyes were drawn to it as if it held the soul of one in a deathly grip.
During the crowning ceremony Lakan had not smiled or uttered a word of pride or thankfulness. He had said; "It is done. You may all leave." As the crown of ancient kings had descended unto his head the pendant had given a single spark but quickly descended to a darkness like that of the depths of the sea.
"SEND THE RIDERS!" the voice seemed to emit from his innermost self, it burned in him, each word falling on him like iron shackles unto a slave. "Send them north, above the mountains, let them find the librarian. I know of his whereabouts." A voice not his own later commanded The Riders to seek out the man known as Jerome and to inquire him about a scripture not of this world.
And again Lakan descended into darkness.
- FR