Gardens and the Graves

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

*After a few moments of gasping cries, words that actually make sense start to come up the well.*

"I... I was sent here. Cursed. I don't know my name, or where I came from... I just know that I'm here, and I'm cursed, and I can't get out, and I have to do what they told me to..." he whispers breathily, as if afraid of being overheard.

 

[Lady Shatterstone]

* Startled by actual word coming from the bottom of the well, Oribella settles back down on the rim and trys talking with the demon again.*

" Tell me...Who cursed you? Who is ordering you and to do what?" she asks in an insistant, but gentle voice.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

"Don't, don't know... I see words on the walls, I follow them, and if I don't... if I don't..." he says, and then gives a whimper of pain.

 

[Steve Gorak]

Does Tuk sence that the devil is lying? (OCC: Sense motive : + 18 )

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

*Tuk believes the devil is telling the truth.*

 

[Lady Shatterstone]

" What do the words on the wall say? Can you read them to me?" Oribella tries again to get some answers and to keep the demon talking instead of crying.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

"They say... they say... 'grant them the wishes, of life and death, curses and luck, power and blight,'" the devil says, its voice growing stronger and more resonant as he recites the words. "And then it says, 'wishes flow from the power of blood within you,' which is how I knew how to... how to... give the wishes. But I felt kinda faint after..."

 

[Lady Shatterstone]

" Is that why you have been crying? How often have you done this... wish granting? Do you have any other magic abilties? Again, she tries to keep him talking hoping his answer will help Grouse, or Gus, or Tuk figure out how long the demon has been in the well and for what purpose he was put there.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

"For... for a while... I really don't know. Some times the sky above is blue, sometimes there's trees, sometimes there's mountains... I don't think I'm very magical... the iron hurts me," he whimpers, pointing to the iron grate that keeps him confined.

 

[Lady Shatterstone]

"So this is not the only place you have been confined to? What else can you tell me about the wishes you have granted? Have you granted any others for the little one that was here a little bit ago?" She looks to the other to make sure she is on the right track with her interogation. Oribella keeps her voice soft and comforting as it seems to be helping the tortured creature.