[Arthas is tearing up his cot in Zero. Calmly. Methodically. Shredding the sheets, picking all the stuffing out of the flat mattress ( Read more... )

Famine rides.

[Private to the Admiral - voice.]

[The video is on, but so black that nothing is discernible. The voice is barely recognizable as Arthas; it's thin and exhausted.]

Stop it. Stop. I want to go home. What do you want? I'll give you anything you want - I need to be out- They think this is me and I can't stop. And I'm going to have to go out and do ( Read more... )

Let me tell you about my riot.

[He paces. The lighting is that of Zero - harsh and fluorescent. There is a heavy burn visible on his shoulder, and when his arms swing the bundles of damaged muscle move in time. He doesn't seem to notice.]My riot is not high and mighty. It is not polished ideals in hollow shells, it has no higher purpose. It will ( Read more... )

Light fucking damn it all.

Well, I didn't do it. The least someone could do it let me out.

[Here there is cursing in Dwarvish, double-stricken out but very vulgar. He doesn't really know much Dwarvish apart from the cursing, because that's the first or only thing any bored teenager learns of a new language. Much later, in a more controlled hand ( Read more... )

Some of you are unconvinced. Do not underestimate me.

Is there anyone here from my world that would care to tell the boat the approximate casualties of the Third War and what percentage was attributable to me?

Ingrates.

[Private to Rex :|]

What is a calculator?

I don't need an editorial, please, just an answer. If you're capable of that.

Hello, boat.

Do you know what a life is? It is an irreplaceable, like a work of art, delicate like something of blown glass and so utterly easy to break. Have any of you ever had a death in the family? I suppose it is ironic that there should be so much of it in this, the afterlife, but consider: if this exists, where is your fairy-tale of a ( Read more... )

Warden. Drake, is it? I was rather tied up. Do you want to meet still?

HOW DARE-This is a place of powerful magic. Very powerful. I suppose we should come to expect no less - this is the place from which is derived legends of hell. Lacking in fire and brimstone, but not to be underestimated. I see that now. But it will not stop me from striving for my goals ( Read more... )