Journal of Stark Tenebris #30
I have told Daneris and Urchin that they are now as family. They shall be a part of my child’s life, and if anything were to happen to Debilis and myself, they would raise him as their own. Debilis is happy that I have made them part of our family. We welcome them with open hearts, and open arms.
Journal of Debilis Renident #22
Stark has told me that he wants to make Urchin and Daneris honorary members of our family. They shall act as the aunt and uncle to our child. I am so very happy to have them in our lives!
Journal of Stark Tenebris #31
[Eight months later]
An uninvited guest came to see me and my lovely wife today. This person wore a hooded cloak, and covered her face when she first came. She said that she had a gift to give to the child. A gift that would stay with it for as long as it lived, but she said that the gift would not start to work upon the child until it was the age of ten. She asked if she could lay a hand upon my wife’s stomach. Debilis hesitated at first, and then the woman said that the gift could not go to the child unless she was touching Debilis. Debilis finally allowed the woman to touch her. The child within moved, and she told us that the child was healthy. She started to speak in Elvish, stopped, removed her hand, turned around, and started to walk out.
I asked her what she had done. She turned back to face me. She smiled, and told me that she had given the child a gift that would make it evil every full and new moon after it was ten years of age. I drew my sword, and advanced upon her. She just stood there, smiling as I held the edge of the diamond blade to her throat. I asked her who had sent her. She laughed, and told me something that shook me to the core; that she was sent to deliver a message to me from the one that was truly responsible for the attack that took the lives of my parents, and that the ‘gift’ was her own idea!
I had the woman lower her hood. She was the witch, Duvainethgwendes, whose real identity was Braigdes! She laughed, and told me that the one that was responsible is on the Elven Council. Debilis stood up, and yelled at Braigdes that she would see to it that she died a very slow, agonizing death. The guards came in, seized Braigdes, and took her to the lower dungeons upon my order. The dungeons that I had them take her to lie beneath the castle that is under the dungeons of my family’s castle. The ‘gift’ that she gave to my heir was no gift, but a curse!
Journal of Debilis Renident #23
[Eight months later]
Stark and I had something quite unexpected happen today. A witch known as Duvainethgwendes made a visit. She is wanted, and she had decided to lay a curse upon my unborn child. We had no idea who she was until after the curse was laid! The curse will make the child become evil with every single new and full moon that passes after it’s tenth year of life. I hate the witch, really known as Braigdes, with burning passion. I am going to find a way to make her suffer for what she has done, and I won’t be merciful by having her executed!
For now, I am content knowing that she is locked away, alone and cold, in the sub-dungeons. Stark seems troubled by the news that she had brought us, and I cannot blame him. I too am surprised that the one responsible for killing our loved ones and people was not Spartain, but someone on the Elven Council!
