Chapter 25
termina, another member of the hand of the dark order, she is even a citizen of the oak kingdom. she is from a village to the west, the village of ilex. a village situated around the mid realms of the kingdom, not even very far from Bur village, my home town. according to what Frankeen tells me about her, she's mostly quiet and reserved, not really engaging with the others since her brother does most of the talking on her behalf. I ask him if her brother is the other member of the order, but he tells me that her brother is with her at all times and always on her person. now I begin to wonder why he says it like he isn't even a human being but a thing, an item in her bag or something. wouldn't it be funny though if she was an actual lunatic and thought her brother was a comb or something, though it wouldn't be that funny since they're all crazy. he tells me that her brother is quite literally always on her person, since they have been fused to each other since birth. immediately start to think of body horror as soon as he says that, they are conjoined twins. Frankeen says that all he knows concerning their past was told to him by her brother because she doesn't like to talk, but they weren't always conjoined. infact while in the womb they were separated and healthy, like any other twins but the jealousy of their mothers sister in-law wouldn't see that last long. as she would go out of her way to get a dark magic practitioner, a dark witch involved. this dark witch would go on to curse their mothers womb, which affected them resulting in the apparent death of the brother, or so they thought. much later after the her birth she would experience constant stomach upsets and when sent to the village healers they would discover a series of mutations in her physiology, it was then discovered that she absorbed her brother while in their mothers womb. one such mutation was her brothers face growing on her abdomen, another one was the face having sentience and self awareness, magic negation, last was the "abundant cells". the discovery of her mutations earned her a bad upbringing, enduring near endless bullying from people and family members alike to even being cast away by her own father, who called her an abomination. her mutations would cause her upbringing to be full of negative memories and cause her quiet nature. they would even call her terminally ill and would try to heal her through alchemy, which proved to only worse her problem. after a while they would succumb to discrimination from the villagers and decided to sell her to a passing circus, where she would gain fame and recognition and be dubbed termina. her powers is a witchcraft based womb mutation, that grants her speed, agility, strength, magic negation and abundant cells based transmutation. just the thought of having a face on my stomach doesn't sit well with me aside the body horror that is.
next on the members list is Aamon, he used to be the bodyguard of a very wealthy and influential merchant in the mid realms but was framed for his murder. he was a loving father who had a wife and a few kids, a very average guy, with an average life. he was a pale knight and was drafted to be a bodyguard for a merchant, Ezekiel emmett. one of the most well know merchants in the oak kingdom, red maple kingdom and even conbliss kingdom. after being drafted to be Ezekiel's bodyguard, he would guard Ezekiel's family on a moonless night, where they would be attacked by a vampire. the vampire would proceed to kill the merchants wife and children, and kill the other guards as well with only Aamon being the survivor of the incident. when the pale knights arrived Aamon would tell them what had happened, they believed him, except for the merchant who insisted that Aamon was sent by his enemies to crumble his empire. Ezekiel would use his influence to try and punish Aamon for crimes he never committed. after a bit Aamon's family would be killed in their home while he was away, attending their burials we're some of his colleagues in the pale knights order and Ezekiel Emmett the merchant, who would while Aamon morning his loss say "what goes around comes around". this infuriated Aamon and after some investigating discovered that his family's death was the doing of the merchant, he would hunt down the merchant, chasing him across the conbliss kingdom and eventually ending his life in the oak kingdom. this act would set him on the bad side of the pale knights he was once sworn to and earn him a top spot on the kingdoms most wanted criminals list, where his punishment for the act was death. he doesn't seem that dangerous on paper, but I assure you from what Frankeen tells me he is pretty dangerous. he has weapons mastery, trained stamina, trained endurance, his speed and strength are all that but he makes up for it in battle IQ and a tactical mindset. magic wise he has some low tier form of blood magic, but regardless of that what makes him dangerous is his applications of it. I don't think that Frankeen mentioned anything about how he joined the hand of the dark order, but that's hardly important. I only just met these guys but managed to learn alot about them and they're agenda, now my only other obligation is to escape them somehow and inform the village chief, cept and the others. just as I say that to myself I notice something moving behind Frankeen, it's a roachfolk, it's codala, but how did he even find me. Frankeen hasn't noticed him yet, it's my perfect chance to escape, I can't mess this up.