The Festival of the Two Hundred Thousand Eyes

"So... what are we supposedly celebrating?" asked the Drow acolyte of Negeé, mercenary hired by the Dark Lord of the Tower of Billiboncea to train his personal guard, not only in combat but as well arts.

"We-uh..." mumbled the ozcuras that gathered around her. "We are making official you entry under the service of our Lord!!"

"He already made that" pointed the drow.

"Yeah, but I mean to the ozcuras!! That's why we are giving you your own Billiboncean ozcura war paint! as a sign of acceptation!" quickly said one, while the others nodded.

"Why now?" asked again the drow, while one ozcura painted her back and one arm. Some ozcuras snickered.

"Ehhhhhh" said one ozcura

"Ehhhhh" the others ozcuras choired, thinking. More ozcuras snickered.

"A Festival!" one suddendly said.

"A Festival?"

"We paint you now, as a sign of acceptance by the ozcuras, as part of the celebrations of this festival!"

"What Festival?" asked the drow. Other ozcura snickered, and was elbowed by one of her comrades, who was trying to not laugh in her own.

"Uh... an important one!!"

"But how is called the festival? I hadn't heard anything that we were going to celebrate a festival before.

"That's why you are, like, very-very bussy!" an ozcura rushed to say. "EVERYBODY was talking of this festival! This... this important festival!"

"But how is called this important festival?" inquired the drow.

The ozcuras looked at each other. One ventured...

"The festival of the two..." she stopped to think.

"Two hundred thousands!" quickly said other. Recently, she learnt the words while working on the storeroom of the fortress, but where empty words to her. But she liked how they sounded!!"

"Festival of the Two Hundred Thousands?" asked the drow woman, rising an eyebrow.

"... Festival of the Two Hundred Thousands... Views!"

"No! Eyes!" other said. All the ozcuras nodded then, satisfied with the name they just made up. Sounded important!!.

The drow smiled to herself.

"Paint finished!" declared the ozcura who was painting her back. More ozcuras tried not to laugh and whispered among themselves.

"Now what should I do?" asked the drow.

"You need to walk  across this path to that shrine in that small island!" the Ozcuras said, pointing the swamp, where no path was visible "And then, you have to walk around the villages and the forts!" added other with a grin.

"Why?" asked the Drow

"So all the ozcuras see your paint and know you are now accepted by all the ozcuras of Billiboncea!!"

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While the ozcuras still where making up the festival name, one ozcura who arrived late due guard duty, whispered to one of her friends.

"Oi" she whispered at her comrade looking at the drow who accepted to be part of their ritual. "what are they painting on the drow-bitch back? I don't know the markings."

"Jus wait and see" the other said, trying not to laugh. "They are writting all over her: whore!!"

The late ozcura frowned at the ozcura painting the drow... "She knows how to write?"

"Not at all: but we all know the symbol she painted means that!!"

"I didn't know it."

"You know now!"

The belated Ozcura thought a bit a moment, looked at the previously unknown marks, and tried then not to laugh. Of course! It said all over her filthy drow bitch whore! It was so clear now!

-specially after they painted in her lower back as well some crude paintings of some masculine and femenine genitals!-

"shhh! Don't laugh!" her friend warned. "Now are we going to make her walk deep into the swamp to get stuck! And once we had enough fun and help her go after an humilliating-fun time, we are going to make her walk all over the fortress marked with that paint!!

It will be awesome!"

"Yeah!" the late ozcura said. May of the Billiboncean ozcuras wouldn't said it to their master, but resented the contract of the drow advisors... specially as they made them work hard!!

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All the ozcuras looked with grins at the drow, in expectation of the prank they wanted to do.

"What an interesting tradition" she said then... but the horror of the ozcuras, rather than speaking in the low polforian dialect widely used in Polforia that they all were using before, she was speaking the local billiboncean-ozcura dialect!!

"I mean" the drow continued: "very interesting tradition to mark with obscene, made-up symbols your officers and hope to misguide them into a swamp." her eyes were bright with anger, but as well, it was visible she was satisfied with herself.

All the ozcuras were completely silent and frozen on their place. How did she know?!!!

The drow seemed to guess what they where thinking. "I'm good with languages... and as well, don't forget elves have better audition than ozcuras!!!"

One ozcura smacked the other in the head, who had whispered all their prank. Aside of that, they continued to be completely still.

"NOW!" the drow said. "Let's do to you, what you girls hoped to do to me"

Mimicking the ozcura who had spoken before the orders for the Festival, she said: "You need to walk  across this path to that shrine in that small island!" the drow said, pointing the swamp, where no path was visible "And then, you have to walk around the villages and the forts!" the drow added with a grin.

The ozcuras sighed, but they where to follow orders of their officer, or they feared a severe punishment...

Later that evening, returned to the Dark Tower of Billiboncea a recently bathed and cleaned drow, radiant with a smile. While she went to her personal chambers, she warned the guards to send somebody to get out of the swamp a bunch of fool ozcuras who stucked themselves in the swamp around the island with a shrine.

The two ozcuras guards looked at each other, as the drow left.

"Is there an island-shrine anywhere near?" they asked each other, perplexed.

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WIP, will finish and re-scan

Still need to quite finish this one -more details, greyscales and so-, and do some important fixes here and there... but I'm already a week to late, and if I keep waiting who knows what more Billie-Bonce will upload and shame me for being so low in the congratulations D:>

Congratulations for the 200.000 pageviews!