| Cruces | Created on Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:28 |
| Helblindi's Heart (A Trying Journey) |
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My time in these kingdoms has become difficult. I have lost my brother in blood, Helblindi. He was going to kill enemies, as usual, but never returned to our home that night. It was a loanly dinner, but I had seen him off for more than a day before, and thought little of it. When the next couple of days passed, as loanly as the first, I began to be worried. He was never gone this long with no letter. I was eating dinner on the fourth night with no word, when I heard something hit the door of our house. It startled me, and I jumped up to see what on earth it could have been. I expected it was little more than an insane squirrl jumping for something, but when I flung the creaking hinges opened, I saw an arrow with a parchment covered in blood rolled around it. My heart sank instantly. Even before I unrolled the parchment, I knew who it was from, and the message was grim. I was correct. I began to read the parchment that was from my beloved brother. The words he wrote described why he was gone. He had been knocked out, and captured. He did not know who had taken him, or where they had taken him. He wrote only that he was being tourtured, and knew he would not return. My heart sank further. The pain I felt that moment far surpassed all other pain I had endured. I began to recall my life after I met Helblindi. Things were better than they had been for a long time. He was an inspration to me. He urged me to be more involved in my family here, in the Monk Circle. He aided me in obtaining the first mark of Il san and the title of Sammasati. Things where so bright when he was around. They now seemed so dim. I left the kingdoms for many days. I'm not sure how many exactly. I just left, without a word, and went to walk. I traveled out of the kingdoms, places I had never been. I did not bother to make marks to find my way back, my mind was too distraught to think about it. Eventually I came to the walls of a city that looked familiar, and walked through them to enter Buya. I had some how managed to wander back to the kingdoms, witch was just fine, because I decided what I needed to do. I decided I would spend the rest of my life, if it required, searching for where Helblindi was taken. No, no, not for revenge, that was his cup of tea, not mine. I want to find where he was taken for another purpose. To find his body. I am still searching today. When I find his body, I will cut out his lifeless heart, in hopes to one day, bring him back. This is a goal that I still am working towards. I must find **Helblindi's Heart**, even if I never figure out a way bring him back. |
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