"You know, when you and your men nearly killed us on that island, I saw a woman in my dreams who insisted that you're not evil. I'm still not sure if I buy that, but I know that woman was a good person and believed it. Speak, and I will make sure your last words are heard."
Excalibur hmphs under her dying breath, "Cassandra... she is so naive. There is no good in war. So she is the one that saved your lives back then.."
Once given blessing for her word, she begins, "I- I am a woman whose name was stripped from her as a child.. a woman abandoned by her mother and father." She takes a moment to take a deep breath, gathering strength to continue, "The reason I am telling you this, is- is because you know who my mother and father are. They are.. the Queen.. and the King.. of Ruby Keep."
She thinks of how to explain, and without hesitation she begins, "I was a daught-daughter born as a princess; born with the name Lucille Chaunce. I can almost no longer remember the years of glamour and adoration given to me by servants and subjects. No.. That may as well be someone else's life.. my life- li-... life.." she begins to gag and cough for this moment, but continues, interrupting any that might try to stop her from talking, "my life only truly began when the King and Queen, my very own parents, took me in the night and made a deal with Thieves to trade me for another girl.. A girl that would strip my name from me and become the new Lucille, the girl that would become loved and live the life that should've been mine; all because the greed of the Kingdom, the hypocrisy of Heironeous worshippers.. This girl was apparently a human artifact known as the Chalice of Heironeous, an object of Heironeous' own creation. My own parents wanted power more than they wanted me.. and it worked, they were able to convince the people that girl was the real Lucille while these thieves attempted to earn a ransom off of me."
After her stream of words that had just flowed angrily, she gives herself a chance to breathe and calm down, "When they failed... They so-sold me... sold me to slavers.. Even scum did not want me. Many years.. so many years of my life where then spent being a slave with the half-orcs. To the slave drivers I was no longer a girl, no longer a princess, I no longer had a name. I was "bitch", "maggot", "dirt", whatever vile spit they could come up to identify me as. I, and the orcs around me, were worked to the point of death only to be healed by clerics at the camp. Even though I was a human, these half-orcs who had no identity of their own became my brothers and sisters. I shared their plight for so many years and understood what no other human could ever bear to understand."
"For us, The Fall was just another day. For us, the gods have already abandoned us and left us to rot. My life was the same every day, straining my body and being whipped, until one day
they came. The true heroes of this world, the half-orcs that marched in and liberated us all and freed us from our slavery. I looked up to the half-orcs that campaigned to end slavery throughout the country and even tried to fight with them.. but I had no experience at the time, so I trained diligently under my new found freedom." Her voice begins to grow fainter, "It.. it was when the drow came, exiled to the surface that I saw that they were people with no home, no place to be accepted as known enemies to the races of the surface. It was then I knew what I wanted to do... I wanted to help them just as the half-orcs helped themselves, as well as take revenge on the Kingdom in the process." She begins to heave and whimper, "I suppose it was selfish in the end what I tried to do... taking revenge under the guise of revolution, wanting to be a hero when no human can compare to the noble heart a half-orc has."
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