"10 restless knights" Pt. 6: Daze's Tale

They have left me behind enemy lines. they...
They have left us. It has been..
It has been three weeks.
days after days wallowing in our own filth.
my partner before me.
the one...
the one that owwwnnned this journal.
has passed.

I found him hunched over it.
I may just have been the only one
the only one to have read his last thoughts.
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I hear soldiers coming.
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Let this be my last testament.
I am about to do the unthinkable.
the unthinkable.. the inconceivable

I leave my wife with.
My one most valuable possession.
My ever lasting love for her.
this is my final testament
I will not be alive after this.

I have escaped the prison that I was taken to.
and hid in the farmlands.
I discovered royalty.
in the most unlikely place.
 I have murdered royalty.

WAR

"10 restless knights" Pt. 5.: Rip's Tale

I'm behind enemy lines. The Establishment co--------
I'm shaken up. As I was writing the-------
I am in no condition to write at the moment
I can barely work up the strength to w-----------!

VALOR

"10 restless knights" Pt. 4.:Zanlor's Tale

IT IS HOT!
   I have been working all day and all night.
nonstop!
I don't care anymore.
My hands are numb with pain.
Pain I can't feel.

I'll let you in on a little secret
I lie.I don't work.
I'm just there watching.
I lift a few things once in a while.
I'm just a scapegoat.
I get blamed for most of life's problems.
doesn't matter thought there is enough of me to go around
I can multiply.
My sons do all the work.
I get paid very little.
but it is they whom get the short end of the stick
for I cannot be touched
I work for both sides.

Ever present.

I give my excuse that I wish to help
really I want nothing of the sort.
I have many families
my newest wife is very powerful
she is an adulterer
it matters not.
for she loves me more than that idiotic ogre.
I have nothing to lose so I take many risks.

LABOR

"10 Restless Knights" Pt.3.: Kingles' Tall

  I big, I strong,
I enforce the rules.
I captured a thief.
He was bad.
He steal valuable things.
He steal many things.
He even took life.

"What a shame", I say.
I be worse thief than him.
I take heart
Me looks and me power take many hearts
me also take souls
Small soul, Big soul.
mostly bad souls.
I no like bad men.
I kill bad men who steal.

......steal things.

I no steal
LOVE not thing.
right?
not like I choose what to steal\
I do no wrong.
women want me. women love me
women have me.
they steal too.
I enforce rules
they like power too.
do not steal from me.
cause I kill.

ORDER

"10 restless knights" Pt. 2.: Darod' Stale

  I killed a man today. It was horrible.
I can see it clearer than day.
He was protecting his stable.
Poor fool died for a belief.
I murdered him for property.
materials are physical incarnations of ideas.
inventions.

The reality of creation.
It's one true physical manifestation.
the fool lived on thoughts.
thrived on talking and acting.

He pleaded with me.
He begged that I would not kill him.
He offered me every thing that he owned.
If his own possessions were less valuable than his life
I was to take his most valuable possession
one he wouldn't trade anything for.
and that's why I killed him.

I fight for big gains.
Great rewards and for self satisfaction
morals and honor are just petty thoughts for me.
never worth any of my time.
I had a chance and I took it.
I took it all.

ADVANTAGE

"10 restless knights" Pt. 1.: Armos' Tail

   I once owned a stable in Whitfield. It was an extraordinary sight to see.
one that causes sore eyes and a shine in the buck teeth of many lesser men.
Ones unworthy of such a sight. I painted it gold.
 I used a stand to exemplify it's beauty.
I once foresaw it's destruction.
I was vain then. I rarely leaked paranoia.
Now it erodes the calm thoughts through thick gushes of sweat.

A king was killed there. I praise the day it happened.
I worship an action, a moment, a time.
'tis not a flaw in my logic
but a kink in life's armor.
I worship a time, a day, an hour, a second.
an idea, a symbol.
but today does not.

I hail destruction and despise order.
Anarchy is not my game
but the source of my fame.
I am the first knight.

REFORM

Throwing Stones

With a muttered coincidence
Gold yet struck.
Oil yet revealed.
Bestowed with the gift of silence
Burdened with the curse of solitude.
Mistaken phrases renounced in whispered utterances.


It is like looking into a shattered mirror. 7 years bad luck.
3rd time is a charm.
Repaired yet again.
Broken courage.
Glued with warm delusions of satisfaction
The light of persistence
Reveals every crack.


One is never whom one says one is. is one?