The Long Wait

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The Long Wait

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In the dark, he sat and he waited.

He had no name. Once, he'd been Krzysztof Rzezbiarczyk, the name of his birth, but he had cast it away; then he had been the Geneshaper, but that name had been taken from him. Possibly he was just the Prisoner. Locked away for what they called murder... treason. Naturally, he begged to differ. Was it murder for the immune system to kill an infection? Which was the treason: to fight the cancer, or to be the cancer?

But the infection, so close to destruction, had survived. The traitors had taken over. And so he'd been shoved into this cell, dishonored, isolated, and forgotten.

Well... maybe not entirely. He did get food. He got a bit of news. Outside, things were getting worse. He felt quite smug about that. He could've told them things would get worse.

He would sit and wait. He couldn't stop the corruption of his Garden anymore; he had resigned himself to that. But once it was corrupted enough - once it was weak and vulnerable - he would be ready. He'd prepared for this, even for this. The seeds of something new and wonderful lay dormant, but when he chose to water them, they would grow from the corpse of what came before.

In the dark, he smiled, and his eyelid twitched.
Shyriath Farstrider (aka Shyriath Bukolos), KD MOU OLH XBH
Viscount Farstrider of Erysisceptrum, Count Bukolos of the Condo, Harbinger of Cheese

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