Chapter #10 1/2 - A Not As New Dawn
Spring 234 again.
Queen Urist sat in the royal throne room, surrounded by her doting courtiers. She was totally disoriented. How did she get here?
"Your majesty?" asked Mogror.
"Huh?" mumbled the Queen.
"You were giving us orders," smiled Mogror nervously. Had she finally lost it? Even more?
"Orders?"
"Yeah you were telling us to go rebuild the roads, and lay the foundation of a great pyramid to celebrate your twenty fifth anniversary as Queen of the Ageless Matched Lashes!"
"No that cant be right...we already did all that!" laughed the Queen.
"Errr..." Mogror looked about nervously.
There was a long awkward silence. Urist was confused, so she just went along with it. "Fine fine...go rebuild the roads. Build me a pyramid! Just get out of here!"
"Yes your majesty!" shouted Mogror and the other courtiers. They rushed out of the room before the psychotic Queen could inflict her wrath upon them.
"What in the blazes is going on?" shouted the Queen into the silent room. She paced about her palace, and eventually found her way to the Dining Hall where Eberdek was sitting at a table sobbing uncontrollably. "Eh...what's wrong peasant?"
"Oh...uhhh....your majesty....I uhhh....it's just....these sugar roasts.....I SWEAR I've already eaten these! I know it! I can't take it anymore!"
"Pull it together! You're going to be eating a lot more of those before my feasting is done..." Urist paused. "Yes...feasting. Twenty-fifth anniversary....this is 234 again! I remember this!"
"I'm gonna be sick!" groaned Eberdek as he put his hand to his mouth.
A guard rushed forward from the doorway of the Dining Hall. "My Gods! He's been poisoned your majesty!"
"No...I never got poisoned in 234." Urist grabbed a sugar roast and bit into it. "God I love these roasts!"
Urist then made her way to the temple. There amidst the scent of death she communed with her God and was informed of the great tragedy that had befallen Blockedlance. The things he said felt almost like memories to her...but not quite. It was all very vague and dream like. She couldn't tell what was real, but decided she could of course trust the Blood God.
When the Elves came in the Spring, she was ready for them, for she had already known they were coming. The elf horde was slaughtered to an elf, not one drop of blue blood fell on our sweet temple. It was glorious...but Urist was still depressed to see that the Pyramid hadn't even been started yet. It was going to be a looooong couple decades before that edifice was complete.