365 Days of Drabbles: Day Sixty-Nine

[jeriendhal]

For colliemommie "If I had only known then..."

Another POV from the story Stride

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The Base Elements had once been his to command. He had gazed into the vast yet incalculable small universes that composed matter and known their secrets. He had bent and merged the Spiral Ladders of Creation to build the perfect servant. He'd had control over everything.

Now he fought to move lip and tongue together to protest his servant's betrayal, as the Death Priest she had suborned took hold of his hand, moving it to sign the false will that would gift her his fortune.

Had I known you to be so clever, I would not have let you live.

Comments

[rix_scaedu]

And who else was he planning to leave it to?

I went back and read the original story - it doesn't appear that she denied him treatment, care or comfort, or that she did anything to hasten his death.

What she has taken from him is control, and I'll bet that's what really stings the old monster.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Well, he did have a sister, but that's another story. :) And yes, losing control over his servant and his body drove him near mad at the end, not that anyone else would cry over it.