Page 5 of I Ran Away to Evil 2
Secure:
6
Bureaucracy:
4
Patient:
6
Examine:
6
Perks:
Sense Threat, Redirect Blow, Claw Strike, Force Palm, Empathy, Calming Effect, Inspire Honesty, Commanding Voice, Natural Poise, Sense Lies, Personnel, Detect Poison, Detect Fake, Identify Craft.
I turned my attention to my notifications and finished processing the myriad information en masse.
The headache that accompanied it thrummed in my temples, but I maintained a calm and assured appearance. It was the work of seconds, and I did it every quarter hour. The downside of my abilities was the time it took to comprehend what the system was feeding me, and I’d long ago masked the discomfort with a serene and confident air.
There were almost two hundred guests from around the continent at Keith and Henrietta’s wedding, and between my [Examine] skill and my two perks [Sense Threat] and [Sense Lies], I was getting an untenable number of prompts.
I wanted to vomit.
And then, just as my headache was becoming unbearable and my stomach clenched … I heard it.
If I had one weakness, it was this.Her voice.
… and the battle that she fought was for
The Dark Lord’s Heart she won.
While Minstrel Bronwynn had originally been playing light instrumental music in the background, the Dark Lady had requested a song, and the dulcet tones of the bard’s singing carried over the crowd.
They said music tamed the savage beast, so call me savage, because ever since that night I slipped into a tavern in Peldeep and first heard Minstrel Bronwynn perform “The Traveler’s Tale,” I’d been under her spell.
“Do you think she could be convinced to play atmywedding?” Chloe broke me out of my musical revelry. She tapped her chin slowly. Her long, curly blonde hair was done up in intricate braids for the affair, all over withflowers, and while she stood no taller than my bicep … she was aterrifyingforce of nature.
