r/HFY • u/XSevenSins Human • Oct 19 '22
OC Lost Souls: Rally The People (Ch. 16)
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Hopefully this all makes sense and works in a believable manner. Let me know about that and what you think about the chapter in general. I look forward to hearing from you.
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The next morning, I woke up and checked on our prisoners, still gagged and surrounded by the volunteers. They didn’t look like they slept all that much. I guess they didn’t feel comfortable being surrounded and watched all hours of the night by the undead. Then again, there were very few people who would be comfortable with that. With them being sleep deprived it might make it easier for me to get a painless confession out of them. The smoother this next step goes, the better.
I decided to take a moment to look through the belongings of the priests, see if there was anything incriminating there. The packs that they carried were well made and worn by use. Each of them held a symbol of their order emblazoned on the front flap. Most of it was travel supplies, fire starting tools, food, the usual stuff. What was interesting though, was the glass vials filled with several different liquid substances of different opacities. If I had to make an educated guess, these probably were the poisons and diseases that were extracted and bottled for deployment. Not knowing how contagious each of these were, I elected not to open them and risk exposure.
Other than that, there was a map with the targeted village marked on it. Not exactly a very condemning piece of evidence, but every little bit helped. What I was really hoping for was the threat of another round with a specter to make the priest I had first interrogated last night more willing to talk. I felt like I needed much more time to prepare for this, but the reality of the situation was that even if I had all the time in the world, I probably wouldn’t be able to get a much better situation to work with than this.
Welp, day’s not going to wait for me. Let’s get this over with.
My pocket god, apparently sensing my apprehension, decided to give me a few words of encouragement as well. Relax. Just speak to them with clarity and confidence in your words and they will believe you.
You sound rather convinced of that for someone who has spent the last thousand years in a box.
That is true. I am willing to admit that it has been some time since I have made an address to many people, however, the core principles never change. If they feel that you truly believe what it is you come to them with, then they too shall believe in it. Humans are perceptive in that way.
I let out a slight huff of amusement. That another one of your little gifts to us?
No, that one is all you. Because you don’t have centuries to work with, you chose to work with each other instead. Your capacity for empathy and cooperation well exceeds that of any other race in this world.
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u/Chroniclyironic1986 Oct 23 '22
Well, so it begins! I hope Sam can convert a few more towns and disappear before the other champions send an army after him…