Socio and Shar'tok lived in furious, yet somehow balanced relationship in their own trollish way. They loved and fighted, even some blood was spilled time after time. They explored the Vale and surrounding areas together, or with the Empire. Fighted against trespassers and helped Emperor to get his slaves from nearby human-populated towns.
Suddenly Shar'tok started to be worried, wich ofcourse worried Socio too. Silence made her frustrated since Shar'tok didn't want to tell about the feelings he had inside. She tried to get Shar'tok to talk with her, but long he remained silent, just breaking his fingers while being in his toughts. Socio cried and begged, bited and hitted him with her wists.
After days, or even weeks pushing, Shar'tok finally was ready to talk with Socio. They were sitting at the small waterfall wich fell to the Great Sea. "Socio.." Shar'tok started, lowering his head. "Me been thinkin'.." he continued. Socio wanted to hit him, hit him hard. Like she wouldn't had noticed his absent mind, like she wouldn't have suffered. But she bited her tongue, and just nodded slowly. "I'm ol', Socio, me be dead soon. Me be many times yer age." Shar'tok sighed deeply. "But me no wantin' 'o die, Socio, me wantin' to be with 'ye". He took Socio's hands between of his and first time looked to her eyes in days. "Me been' thinkin'. Bu' me needin' ye help". Socio looked back to Shar'tok, not knowing what to say or think, not knowing what to wait from this conversation. Somehow she didn't feel good about it. She felt her stomach squeezing and twisting.
For a while they just stared the sea, Socio's hands in Shar'tok's. Finally Shar'tok took a deep breath and said "Me needin' ye to kill me". Great anger rised inside of Socio, she jumped up and shouted "What?! Why?! No, I won't be killin' da man me love!" Shar'tok hanged his head down again "Bu Socio.." Enraged Socio whistled to Sade and jumped to her back. "Socio 'ere no other way." Socio still didn't understand, why she'd need to kill Shar'tok. She was upset, afraid of loosing him. While she was confused and trying to figure the situation out, Shar'tok disappeared to the jungle with his raptor, disappointed and angry.
Socio paniced. Was Shar'tok going to kill himself now anyways? Socio ran around in the Vale with Sade, trying to find Shar'tok. Now she was crying, and unable to yell because the flow of tears. She doesn't know how long she had been running in moist air of Vale, when she finally saw Shar'tok from the northern river of the Vale. Border between trolls and humans.
Shar'tok was sitting on surface of the water, looking still angry. Socio took her form of ghost wolf and sneaked around the river, trying to think what she should do? How should she act? Suddenly Shar'tok yelld "I see ye' Socio, ye coward! I see ye'!!!" Socio just stood still, still not sure how she'd manage her way through the situation. "No, Shar'tok.." she cried silently. Shar'tok didn't seem to care, he just kept on yelling to Socio "ye' no good if ye can no kill me, take yer bow and shoot me, shoot me right 'ere!" Shar'tok ripped the upper part of his robe open and pointed his chest. "Shoot me!" He tried to enforce Socio. At this point Socio felt almost blind because of her tears. Breeze of wind blowing from the sea felt so cold. She didn't know if she could stand much longer, she felt so weak, and Shar'tok keept on yelling and mocking her.
After the situation went on and on without chaning Socio finally felt like giving up. She didn't want to fight anymore. She didn't want to loose Shar'tok. Tired and given in, Socio finally took her bow from her back and placed arrow carefully to its string. She didn't anymore recgonize the words Shar'tok was shouting, tho she noticed his voice started to be full of victory when he saw Socio taking her bow. With her blurry vision Socio stretched the string and aimed, her hands were shaky but she did her best to stabilize them. Socio aimed and set the arrow free. It seemed to fly forever towards Shar'tok, slowly, how can it fly without dropping to the ground? Finally Socio heard the arrow puncturing skin and flesh and saw Shar'tok falling to the water.
Instead of running to him, Socio just turned slowly around and headed to the jungle. She didn't know what was going to happen, she was too tired to think.
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