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Servant of Shadow	By : Giovanna Category: A through F > Forgotten Realms Views: 3741 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 13

Chapter 13.

Entreri was recovering quickly from the enchantment the merchant had thrown at him; the healing potion he had drunk sped the process along faster. Though his grasp of the drow language was rudimentary at best, the man had understood the gist of Taella''s offer to Aramys. Of course, the girl''s response needed no translation. He stood, and Aramys pulled off her mask and looked at him sharply as he grasped her by the shoulder.
He had an almost uncontrollable urge to shake her. The ghost of innocence he had glimpsed so fleetingly was gone; her eyes were as cold and empty as any he had ever seen. He couldn’t understand the anger he felt at the sight; it wasn’t the death of the drow that so disturbed him; she most likely deserved it for any number of reasons. Rather, it was a sense of total wrongness that this girl should be capable of such and act of calm and collected violence. Even though he had known their reason for being here, some unconscious part of him had wanted to protect her from the taint of spilled blood; yet he realized now that he was years too late for that. He didn’t know why it so stung him, he had seen death repeatedly in his life, had been the cause of it more times than he could count, but looking at Aramys, an overwhelming feeling of sadness filled him.
"You''re hurting me!" she exclaimed angrily, pulling herself away from his bruising grasp and raising the bloody sword up between them. "What''s the matter with you?!" Her voice sounded almost defensive.
Entreri backed away from her, nearly trod on Taella and then stepped to the side instead. He shoved his hand through the hair that had fallen over his eyes and stared at her, realizing that all of the things he wanted to say at that moment were ridiculous, considering who he was. He raised both hands in an inoffensive manner and said the first thing he could come up with, "I thought you might be hurt. "
Aramys gazed at him warily as she bent and wiped the blood from her sword on the drow''s robe. "Touched though I am by you concern, I assure you that I''m uninjured, save nearly by you." Sheathing her blade, she rubbed at the shoulder he had held her by. "You should look to yourself, human. After all, you were the one nearly passed out on the floor."
Entreri considered the situation they had just come through. He wasn’t overly pleased with his own perfomance, and it angered him to realize that he most likely would have died were it not for his companion. He disliked feeling indebted to another person, but couldn’t deny the facts. It occurred to him that he hated this place, which left him feeling so out of his element.
"You have a lot to learn about the dangers of the underdark." Aramys said, seeming to read his thoughts from his expression." But you learn very quickly, you handled the spider well enough."
Her condescension didn’t help matters; neither did her casual attitude towards him. . Even when very young, Artemis Entreri had intimidated people. He had come to depend on the ability to handle others, to keep them in their place and at a proper distance. He recalled Catti-Brie and how terrified of him she had been, and how easy it had been to control her with her fears. This one was not like that at all, had seen and done things that the innocent human girl could not even imagine. How to gain an even footing with Aramys? Leveling his black gaze on her, he asked," Why didn’t you take the drow up on her offer? I would think it would be the answer to your prayers. "
Aramys seemed stung by the question. " What do you mean?"
" I mean, " he continued slowly, " That your looks would match what you truly are inside." Entreri stepped towards her again, but the menace was in his words, not his actions. He saw plainly that he had struck a nerve. An insane surge of victory filled him as he watched the myriad emotions flit through her eyes, even though every one of them held both pain and rage towards himself. With a sound that was somewhere between a snarl and a sob, she rushed towards him, swinging her fist with all her strength. He excepted her blow, but gave in to his earlier impulse, grabbing her by the sdersders and shaking her once. Grinning evilly, he pushed the girl back at arms length from him and looked at her. She struggled in his grasp, spitting some exclamation in drow that sounded very unflattering, and he thought that at that moment she seemed no more threatening than an enraged kitten hissing at him from an alleyway. The notion was absurd considering what he knew about her. With shocking speed, she spun out of his grasp, delivering a sharp jab to his stomach as she went, and had both swords up and at the ready before he could even straighten from her attack. With one blade moving menacingly towards his face, the other poised near his chest, she hissed at him, "If you think that, perhaps it would be wise to tread more carefully around me, Rivvil!" Her purple eyes were filled with abject loathing, though a perceptive person might wonder where the emotion was truly aimed. Entreri took a half step back from the furious girl, reaching for his sword, and for a second it looked as though she would follow with her attack. After the smallest moment of hesitation, Aramys spun and rushed out of the room as though pursued by fiends.
Entreri let his hand fall away from his own sword as he watched her retreat. "What the hell did I just do?" he asked aloud. He realized that he had goaded the girl purposely, and worse, with the same weapons that Drizzt Do''urden had used against him. Why? If anyone in the room had an answer, they didn’t bother to share it with him. " Thanks for nothing." he said absently as he picked his way through the corpses of both drow and spiders and followed Aramys.
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