by Argyll » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:06 am
Argyll was still greatly flustered, his own ignorance to the situation, the fact that his woods had been desecrated, and the challenge he had heard in Olos's words still echoed in his minds.
"Olos, great king of arrogance, and man of Esragoth, there is no chance for peace between if your words stand as they are. You say your armies will hunt us down like dogs in the woods, and burn our world further into oblivion than it already is, lest I submit to peace and forget this day. You must not know me or my kin, were you to think that there is any option in that. The O Raghaillaighs would see their own flesh torn from their carcasses and their bodies turned inside out and thrown to carrion birds before ever excepting peace, given those conditions."
Argyll now turned to his fellow Fenian, "Oisin, you may think that there is some logic I may see in bowing to this man, to save my woodland home, and continue worshipping Ginneigh, but you must understand that to cower in the face of this man's challenge would be a far greater blasphemy than to die in Ginneighs name, in defense of the last of his lost realm. The O Raghaillaighs will bow to no man, lest it be Ginneigh Incarnate himself, or those who we have given our hommage on our own free will, and definately not to those who hold a sword point at our throats."
Having cleared his thoughts, Argyll was now capable of describing the events that had occurred.
"As for the events that had unfolded... I had embarked from our great hall in the woods this morning. Along with Neldar, and Follar, who left their own way to scout our lands and guard against intrusions. At high noon, I came near the forests edge where these two walked, Katherine and Freswinn. That would have been enough to bring their heads home a year ago, before I accepted the tutelage of Kinsman Finn, his Fianna. I was prepared to know their purpose, and send them home after enlightening them to the sacredness of these woods, but as the trees and the wind spoke to me, I learned that moments before my arrival at forest's edge this lady Katherine, had planted an arrow in one of the great sacred trees here. And so, above all, my duty to Ginneigh was to see her brought to my hall and give her to give her to Him, in our way, through the spilling of her blood. This man Freswynn stood in my way of taking her and so we crossed blades. He cut through my bracer her causing me little harm, but had cut about 1/2 and inch into my thigh, the most damage being bloodloss. I have bound that wound somewhat since, but it will need repair soon before real damage is done. As for him, his foot had been lascerated by a flange of Dardfahtoch, my great mace which I left back in the forest a ways. Dratha did trample him,i beleive and that's what has left him as he is now. I gave chase to Katherine, who had met Olos by the time I reached the clearing and that's when they took Dratha from beneath me. I flung my scramasax over her shoulder into the trees there, and then faced Olos, which did not come to blows, as you arrived simultaneously."