Dreamed Into Life

[GamesMaster]

"Go to hell," he spits, eyes narrow. 

[Illianna]

"Now now there's no need to be rude. You'll be going home soon but first I need something" I smile  "I need you to bring a message to my father for me. Can you do that?"

[GamesMaster]

"Home? You're sending me home?" he says, voice cracking. "What requirement?"

[Illianna]

"My father has instigated a war with my wife. I simply need you to relay the demands he needs to meet to stop it. Can you do that?"

[GamesMaster]

"I... what demands?"

[Illianna]

"First he must recognize our marriage and give to her my full dowlary. Second he must recognize her as the heir apparent given that she is the dominate wife. And third to apologize for his transgressions he must provide a third of his lands and those who live there to her rain and three prosperous iron mines."

[GamesMaster]

He goggles at her. "You're insane!" 

[Illianna]

"Probably. But that's not the point. Will you send it or not?"

[GamesMaster]

"No way!"

[Illianna]

I smile gently "She wormed me you wouldn't be willing but that's fine She don't need you alive to send a message. Your corpse will do just as well. Do you have a family I can send condolences to?" I say  calmly

[GamesMaster]

"What the fuck!" 

[Illianna]

"Her orders were to send a message with you dead or alive. Still if you have a family I would like to provide for them. They are my people after all and they shouldn't suffer for you foolishness."

[GamesMaster]

"N-no, I don't -- my mother's dead, I never knew my father, adn I have no wife." It occurs to himm, for the first time in his career, that possibly he got this position precisely because nobody would miss him if he died. "Please, I -- I want to live!" 

[Illianna]

"You do?"

[GamesMaster]

"Of course I do!"