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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7217645" data-attributes="member: 20323">[SECTION][align=left]http://i.imgur.com/Hztofyg.jpg[/align]Continuing his tale after a moment's reflection, the water bearer speaks, "When the troops of the First Caliph discovered I was an ice trader, they requisitioned me to deliver ice to the war camps – for the path to the Enlightened Faith was carved by the First Caliph's sword. And so I dug deeper and deeper into the ice. It was while harvesting ice deep below the oasis that I found a man trapped within, his eyes like pale crystal, his skin unblemished. In my youthful foolishness, I cut him free of the ice." Letting his fingers trace the edges of his wound, Malsoor is satisfied to feel it mostly healed already. "It was he who bestowed the gift of immortality to me, in gratitude for freeing him from his ancient prison."Taking the blankets in hand, Malsoor peels them back so that he may stretch his legs properly. "Was this a gift or a curse? Perhaps both. When you have seen what I have, perhaps it is both. I was still young in understanding the gift he'd bestowed upon me, but when I awoke, the man was gone. It did not take the Caliph's soldiers long to deduce my unholy nature, and they intended to destroy me, but a sahera (female sorcerer) in the Caliph's army took pity on my fate." The way he intones 'took pity', the bitterness is written clearly on the water bearer's face. "Not wanting the Caliph's enemies to take control of the ice, and not wishing to see me burnt alive, she killed two birds with one stone. The sahera turned the ice to flowing water so that it encircled the entire oasis beneath the ground, receiving the rain waters from the Yabki Mountains. I did not realize at the time that, with my connection to the waters of life, I could not cross such an obstacle..."Malsoor gingerly swings his legs off the side of the bed, taking a deep breath and sitting up straight. There is only the faintest white scar along his neck hinting of his injury. "But the course of water may change over the years. That is its nature. Knowing this, the sahera further cast upon me a geas that as long as the waters of Hakim flowed pure, I would be bound to this oasis till the end of my days. So you see, cleric... Your magic has set me free." He stares intently at Akilah, for it seems history has repeated itself in the freeing of a second man from Hakim Oasis, only Malsoor does not seem intent on "gifting" her with immortality. Unless she were to ask it as her 'boon.'[/SECTION]</blockquote>

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