Empath's being hunted?

by Bedwin Lloegyr

"Baresh," he starts, "we have entered a different age in Elanthia since I have been a young pup and grown up. These days people aren't as friendly as they used to be, but I thought I was ok with it until something happened to me this afternoon. I was standing in front of the bank, as people often do, to find out what people were selling off. All of the sudden, I hear a voice chanting from the shadows "Die you Empath panzy!" whatever that means... I turned around to find a person I have never seen before shooting arrows at me? Now I, being the young pup I am, do what I can to get out of the way but to no avail, it hits me square and stuns me. I fall to the ground, with more arrows being fired at and hitting me.

All of the sudden, as I'm staring up at the sky, it begins to move. I look around to see a man named Mercual, whom I have also never met before, dragging me out of harms reach! Now I'm thinking, laying there being dragged away, "What in the world just happened?" I try to stand but my leg was wounded in the surprise attack. Then, I see the same person, running after us and pelting me with arrows again! I keep trying to stand up and Mercual keeps dragging me away, but I look down to see an arrow lodged deeply in my leg, cry out from the pain and collapse into a heap on that very spot!

Now Baresh, my new friend Mercual drags my lifeless corpse to the Clerics guild, where there is thankfully one cleric sitting. Not long after, my assassin moseys right on in! Suffice to say that I was a little puzzled, as was everyone else.

"Why have you done this?" I asked him. He said something about making fun of his race and that we would all die... I'm not too sure what his motive was, Baresh, but I know the Government Men got him eventually and I hope he gets his own."

"Quite the story, Bedwin." He says, polishing off the counter. "I do wonder about people like that, for if it weren't for you and your guild, he would have walked the starry road long ago."

"Exactly!" Bedwin exclaimed. "I told him that same thing. I can only hope that him and those like him realize that everyone has thier place in Elanthia." Bedwin's ears perk up as he hears a loud, anguishing scream from outside. "Well, duty calls old friend." He says as he throws some coins on the counter and shuffles out the door. He step outside, but turns back before leaving and says, "And if you see Mercual, give him my thanks again."

With that, he gives a quick smile and leaves, almost shutting his tail in the door. Baresh hears a joyful howl of a Rakash outside his tavern, and smiles to himself. "Glad he's back to his old self." he thinks to himself, and goes back to waiting on other customers.