Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-29461586-20140117093055/@comment-3293219-20140117183918

Caleb was dragged over to the port side by two of the argonian's crewmen, they threw him forward, causing him to stumble and nearly fall over the edge. It was clear that they just wanted to put some fear into the dunmer, they should have known better…

Kelzar emerged from the captain's cabin, now wearing a bandage around his eye, he approached his former comrade. The argonian seemed incredibly calm, despite the fact that he had lost his eye moments before…

“Well…” He began with a grin on his face, “feels like the end of an era, doesn’t it?”

Caleb said nothing, he simply stood there, building up more murderous rage… The second that he was free, he’d make sure that the argonian wished he was dead. A wish that Caleb had no intention of granting immediately…

“Turn him around, make him face me…” Kelzar ordered, he was always calm when he was in control, no matter what happened prior. It was when he lost control that you had to look out, as he turned into a savage, like an animal that was backed into a corner…

Caleb struggled, quite fiercely as the guards turned him around, trying to knock one of them into the sea, so that he could make his escape.

Kelzar gasped as he clapped, rubbing his hands together in devilish glee, laughing to himself. “I find this ever so humorous…”

“You would…” Caleb muttered. To be fair, he would most likely be amused if he was stood where that shit kicking argonian was…

“The ‘master,’ shackled up in chains… the irony of it all…”

Wait… that is what this is all about?

“Kelzar, you can’t be serious… that was years ago!” Caleb said, in an almost pleading tone, with a sudden desire to reason with him. “I freed you, for the Neravine’s sake!”

“You freed me, because I was the only one who could get you out of there…” Kelzar snapped, “but think of all of those you didn’t!”

“That wasn’t my fault! I… we barely got out ourselves!” Caleb reminded him; the night of their escape still haunted him, even after his many years on the sea.

“You lie! They were your slaves!” Kelzar snapped, “Those argonians were your slaves! Those Khajit were your slaves! Me and my sister were your slaves!” A blaze was set off in Kelzar’s eye as Caleb’s heart sank…

“Sis-sister?” Caleb stammered, he truly had no idea… This was the first time, the argonian even mentioned a sister or any family of any kind. “Why didn’t you say something? We could have gone back for her!”

“For her corpse… she died in the first wave of cholera.” Kelzar seethed.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">Caleb tried to free himself, though he no longer had the desire to lash out anymore, he just wanted to reason with the argonian. “Look… those people were my father’s slaves, I never agreed with it, I told you that!”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">“You still used them!”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">“They still would have been slaves if I didn’t!” Caleb snapped at him, “My father would have forced them to work, no matter what I said!”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">“My father’ this ‘my father’ that… remind me dunmer, when were you ever your own man?” Kelzar scoffed.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">“The day I escaped…”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">“And that… great accomplishment was mostly down to me.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">Caleb choked on those words but he was right… “I feel no shame in admitting that…”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">“Well that makes it all better, now doesn’t it?” Kelzar mocked as a woman approached him with a knife.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">“Ah… perfect.” The lizard stepped forward, raising the knife to Caleb’s face. “After all that we had been through, I felt that it wouldn’t be fare to leave you without a parting gift…” He began to laugh as he pressed the knife above his eyebrow.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">“Here’s something to… remember me by.” He quickly dragged the knife down the dunmer’s face, scratching right through the eyelid, the eyeball and through some of his cheek. Caleb screamed out in pain as blood gushed down his face.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">“Ta-ta…” The argonian took two steps back and booted him in the chest, sending him falling into the sea.