Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Jewels

It was a hot day in the Vale. Socio and Shar'tok had climbed up to a small hill to observe possible trespassers. There was no breeze of wind, birds weren't singing. It seemed to be too hot even for humans and gnomes, wich was a shame since Socio needed more heads to Sade.
It was too hot to even have a discussion about anything. Socio wiggled her toes bored and Shar'tok seemed to be more concentrated to his scarred hands than anything else.
Suddenly Shar'tok removed a ring from his hand and rolled it between his fingers. Socio had noticed the ring before. It seemed to be very dear to Shar'tok. It was made from some sort of white metal, and a figure of snake was carved to its surface. When Shar'tok was on his toughts he was running tip of his fingers on it, Socio had never seen him taking it off.
Now Shar'tok grinned and looked to Socio. "Socio, me wantin' to give ye' this" he said and took Socio's hand into his. "Me love ye' Socio, me not know how me showin' it, please take this" Shar'tok continued and slipped the ring to her finger. Socio smiled warmly and nodded. Silently she took off one of her necklaces and locked it around Shar'tok's neck. Shar'tok observed the tiny talisman closely, was it a some sort of ring too? "Me gettin' dat when me born, dat only thing me havin' left from Zul'Farrak" Socio explained. Shar'tok seemed to smile even wider before kissing Socio to her both cheeks while squeezing the talisman protectively inside his hand.
They didn't need any more words.

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