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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3208014" data-attributes="member: 3448">“Is he dangerous to young Lord Brightspan?” asked Dame Brionna, clearly hoping for an answer that would allow her to smite the devil where it stood.“No.  Indeed, he’s so young, that he’s not particularly evil.  In the natural order of things, he would enter the service of a more powerful devil that would inculcate in him the beliefs of the Hells.”“I don’t want him to be sent back to the Hells.  He’s my friend!” said the young lord.“No one’s going to take your friend away,” said Alistair.  “I have a friend of my own like that.”  He thought, <<Stythus, please come here.>>  As the djinni squire flew in, Alistair gestured.  “See?”Lord Brightspan relaxed a little at that.“And do you want to stay here?” Kit asked the devil.“Oh, yes.  I quite like it here.  And he’s my friend, and he needs me.”“Do you serve any of the more powerful devils?  Or worship any gods?” asked Alistair, worried that the devil would lead Lord Brightspan to Paranswarm instead of Glor’diadel.“Oh, no.  None of the other devils have whipped me into obedience, or beaten me until I agreed to follow one of their gods.”  The devil thought for a bit.  “But I have liked some of the things that the priest of Glor’diadel has said in the services I’ve been to with ___.”Lady Constance raised an eyebrow.  “With that, he might even revert…”“Revert?” asked Alistair.“To his natural form.  After all, devils are originally fallen angels.”“If you would both like, we could have a priest of Glor’diadel talk with you all the time,” said Alistair.  “He won’t whip you ever, but if you want, he could help lead you towards the Light.”Lord Brightspan nodded, still nervous.“I’ll make a note, your grace,” said Dame Brionna.  “I should think we’ll want a theologian, and a particularly open-minded one at that.”Mahler looked at the devil thoughtfully.  “Were you given any orders besides to be a friend and confidant of Lord Brightspan?”The devil looked at his friend and then nodded.  “Dame Bernadette also said that I was to keep him safe.”“Safe from whom?”“From the terrible woman.  She looks like a hag, only human, only not all human.  She’s turning into something.”“Turning into something?” asked Dame Brionna.  “Like a devil?”“No, not like me, and not like him,” the devil gestured at Stythus, “or like him.  Well, a little like him,” the devil gestured again towards the Eldar, “but different.  She has her fingers everywhere.”</blockquote>

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