Delmechia
Prologue
He watches through the trees while they guide her up on the small altar. Two torches blaze an aura through the black of the night on either side; one of them with sapphire flames and one of them swamp green. And all the people are hooded, even she has a black cloth covering her head, and as they reach the middle of the platform, she appears to him in her ropey bonds like a being to be sacrificed to displeased gods. But whatever gods may be have nothing to do with this occurrence.
A couple of dark figures take her to a stone chair centered in the small stage and slice her bonds before sitting her down and producing more rope and tying her thin human wrists to the smooth arms.
From somewhere among them, a slender staff is produced with a sphere of clear glass on the end, the light of the pale moon reflected inside it. As they place it in front of the chair, The Boss appears; a tower among the already-large figures upon the altar. He is the Lord of the elemental Lords. His cloak is as black and undistinguished as the rest, but upon his head is a mask of polished gold with three horns curving out from either side and the face carved to resemble something like a skull with no jaw.
The Boss gathers up the staff in his immense arms and stands facing the woman like a dark tower made to drown her in shadow. The other elemental lords and their servants pass along two coils of metal tube and hook them into the base of each of the torches and then uncoil them to The Boss, whereupon they attach them on both sides of the staff and the glass ball suddenly fills with a blazing teal light. Light so pale and bright as to be blinding.
He stands in the trees and watches, almost wishing she would do something. Some kind of a struggle or fight. But she does not. She sits immobile; a gesture of utter surrender that is terrible to witness from a person of such courage. A gesture that destroys any notion of immortality he might have had.
He turns away as The Boss delivers the teal globe of light to her forehead and there's the sound of buzzing like a gathering of static electricity and then she screams for a few seconds before falling silent.
When he looks again, the lamps have gone out and in the darkness there is only the vague form of the stone chair on the altar and everything is still. After a while, it occurs to him that there is nothing left to witness and he walks back through the forest, following the path he came by; suppressing a shiver the whole way. He himself is an elemental lord of water; one of the deadliest warriors among his kind. Still, he has never been a part of anything quite like that. He has just witnessed the one person, whom he valued the most, have her memory erased.
You will assume the role of one of the characters