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The New Hasstin

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Character  Maylara MaltreeCharacter  LaryleneLocation  Aiers

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General Dahl'Arak pay her debts by Shabazik

Maylara looked around nervously. The House of the Char’Isstra family –her family now, she guessed?- wasn’t the most luxurious drow home she had been in, but it showed that they had some power and some solvency.

She didn’t liked much this whole situation, Maylara thought. Simply going home would have been maybe better, but as General Dahl’Arak have pointed out, she knows where she lives, where her family and friends lives… so wasn’t a good idea simply running away. But clearly for her, this was a poisoned gift, to pose as the missing acolyte Hasstin Char’Isstra… But in this way, she guessed she could protect her families, both adopted and blood family, she guessed she still had in Animadelia?

She wondered how was the home of her parents?

“Mistress, shall I knock the door?” her slave Larylene said, propably bored of waiting in front of the door waiting for May to decide.

“I will do so” Maylara said. She would tell her again to not call her mistress, but she thought, it was largely a lost battle with Larylene. She knocked the door, which was opened by a house slave.

“The Matron was waiting for you”

Maylara Maltree was going to go with her “mother” Char’Isstra to one Temple of Negeé, where the Char’Isstra matron was to officially recognize in front of a priestess that her daughter, Hasstin Char’Isstra, disappeared in action against the forces of the Hebonnor mountain elves, had finally returned.

For that, was needed Maylara to pay her part as Hasstin, dressing as an Acolyte of Negeé, dying her hair tips purple –sign of the Char’Isstra family-. As well, was needed that the priestess that served as a witness to be handpicked: an old priestess more on the blind side, that for sure hadn't ever seen before either Hasstin or Maylara when she wandered around the city as an agent of Dahl’Arak or when she was paraded by the general. And her being sort of blind would be a plus so she overlook –or simply barely see- the clear differences between “mother and daughter”.

The House Slave lead Maylara and Larylene to the room of the disappeared Hasstin, where the matron  Char’Isstra awaited.

She saw with reprobation in her eyes to May and her commoner clothes and commoner appearance. But she wasn’t doing this for fun. She was the matron of a family in disgrace due the lack of luck and actions of her predecessor, and she needed Maylara to be Hasstin, to save her family’s name.

“Get a bath, and dye your hair” she said to Maylara. “The clothes are over the bed” she added before leaving.

Maylara nodded, and proceeded to the bathroom. If something she had noticed in Negeémiliel, was that drows loved their bathrooms and baths, being rooms fit often with luxury and quite comfortable. Helped by Larylene, she will undress and take a bath in warm water… one of these wonders to be found in the house of the rich of Negeémiliel, thanks to the pipes of water that run in the city, either from some thermal fountains or some other way she ignored. She read part of it on a stolen book she once picked around, but she never really finished it, as was a rather dull lecture for her. It was easier to think of it as result of magic, than to think in the engineering behind the sewers and pipes that run in the city.  It was of course more comfortable that hailing the water all the way from the wells and then laboriously heating them as she did in her home village of the Gigfran Nyth, in the high mountains of Nohalion.

As she finished with her bath, she had to dye the tips of her hair purple, family signature of the House Char’Isstra:

Fresh and with her dyed hair, it was time to put on her acolytal uniform…

“Uh oh” Maylara thought, as she tried to slip in the uniform… with less than satisfactory results in her opinion!

She asked Larylene to try to find around something… a bit more of her size, but the Matron was becoming impatient, and called Maylara to her presence with a slave… with a sigh, Maylara went to meet her…

“Took you long enough” Char’Isstra said coldly, looking down to Maylara Maltree, drow soon to be recognized as Hasstin Char’Isstra.

"Mom? Don't you have... well... larger clothes?" May asked.

"I'm the matron of your house, not your mother. You may pose as my daughter, but that doesn't make it true"

"Yes matron... so... are there some larger clothes?"

"These where Hasstin clothes."

"Well... I'm not as small as your daughter."

"My daughter wasn't small! She had a traditional drow beauty!

And enough with this! We have something to do, so we better do it quick!”






Done the 22 July as a birthday present for :iconanimal-delos:, and as well, for the Maylara Maltree, rogue and spellthief, story
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CREATIVECONCEPT12's avatar
Really Nice Work Man :).