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Kalyesin's Chronicle - Insane Runes

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"He wrote. Even when I blindfolded him, he wrote. Such obedience was eerie to me, till I realized that it was actually disobedience, rebellion of some kind. I wanted him to stop then... Didn't want him to continue when I was not with him. I punished him everytime, but he still wrote. He bit his tongue, and dipped his remaining two fingers in his own blood, leaving words and sentences all over the floor of the room I kept him in, and if he somehow managed to reach the wall, he covered it in drunkenly unstable letters. I tried to read it. It made no sense at first. But then, after a while, I began to understand.

He wrote runes. Magical runes.

He had listened carefully, watched attentively, every time when he was lying across my lap or under my feet while I was studying new spells or talking to sorcerer colleagues. He had learned. The ban iron collar around his neck prevented him from casting spells, and from what I knew, he had no magical talent anyway while he was still theoretically able to work it. But he was able to do one thing that everybody, even a beastman, can do. Runes work, always, no matter who drew them.

On the walls of that room, on the floor, everywhere, were arcane symbols that cursed me, forever.

I laughed at his inventiveness. Once again, he proved himself worthy to be my favourite. Not only was he a wonderful chronicler and a better poet than me, he was also so amazingly clever that I almost thought it a pity that he couldn't be a strategist for our great Kingdom. I knew from that day that he would be my nemesis, in one way or another. This knowledge made enjoying him even more exquisite, more delicious.

I don't regret anything."

- Ryon Alaris, at his trial, two minutes before his execution.
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Wow, the story is really great!