by kubasik
J'role nodded.
Garlthik touched his hand to J'role's cheek. Then the one eyed ork ran off through the rotting, ruined streets of Parlainth.
"J'role!" Releana called, and he turned to see her and half a dozen dwarfs walking quickly toward him. The faces and armor of the dwarfs were blood-stained, but they wore smiles.
"Are you all right?" Releana asked as she rushed up to J'role and took his bleeding wrist.
His blood flowed over her hand.
Too many ideas and thoughts crowded into J'role's head. Without meaning to, and without understanding what he was doing, he opened his mouth and said, "I ..."
The voice was like a baby's cry raspy and painful. He heard his first true utterance in more than half his life and crumpled to his knees, tears swelling in his eyes and running down his cheeks. He thought of his mother and his father and wondered how they could have done such a thing to him. And he wondered how he could have done what he had done to his father. He wanted forgiveness from his father, a forgiveness that would never come. And he wanted to forgive his parents, a forgiveness he thought he could never give.
Releana was kneeling beside him, holding his bloody hand. The others had also gathered around. J'role wanted to speak to her, to show her he had done it. He had gotten his voice back.
But the tears flowed too thick, and his voice cracked with sobs, and his throat was so thick with grief that he could not speak a single word.
Document Outline
Longing Ring Chapter 1.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 2.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 3.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 4.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 5.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 6.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 7.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 8.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 9.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 10.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 11.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 12.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 13.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 14.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 15.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 16.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 17.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 18.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 19.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 20.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 21.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 22.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 23.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 24.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 25.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 26.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 27.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 28.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 29.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 30.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 31.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 32.doc
Longing Ring Chapter 33.doc