บท 550: Ear Leech

No need to bore you with everything I tried; in the morning I was exhausted. My guards were exhausted; the Forge …priest?... who arrived even looked exhausted.

His guards looked broad and muscular, upright in their heavy armor.

"Is this..." he asked, "I mean, I was expecting someone … larger."

"This is him." Alexis said. "Turns out that every time he changes shape he loses bits of himself."

Well, this wasn't the time for that truth. Let them believe what they wanted.

"I will need confirmation from your leader." he said. "Please. He should be up by now. Summon him, if you would. Marag, if you would please cut the ropes from his snout. I would have words with the apostate."

Marag was confident in his skills, or didn't care if he cut me. Probably both. The rope split beneath two strikes of his blade, and fell away.

I managed to catch a segment with my tongue, and swallowed it before any of them thought to stop me.

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Mike_Kochis

I wondered about how to build up tension around the ear leech, and then realized that was the WRONG way to go about it. Rhishi EATS parasites, and steals their evolutions. Rating six pain, you say? Sure, he'll feel that, but it's not actually costing him fatigue or sanity.

And... it just feels like finally getting the decisiveness of Principled as an Inherent was overkill, even if the rest had failed.

I'm reminded of the number of people who tried to kill him by drowning.

But as always, thank you for your continued readership. It keeps me writing, more than any ear leech could.

Thank you for not putting that to a test, by the way.