In the Nerve-Wracking Duel between
King Athelstan and Swaeft
both duelists have proven themselves of equal strength as this mighty Duel ends in a Draw!
Shower your Praise (and Rep) upon both our Honoured Duelists:
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Those who were so Unfortunate as to miss the Duel may read both entries here:| King Athelstan's Submission |
It all feels so cold. Half my heart is gone, and the other has turned to ice. I knew him for less than 10 years, but he was my whole life. He was my everything, he shaped me into who I am, and who I'll become. Today, almost 9 years after it happened I still can't comprehend that he's truly, fully gone. I remember all the happy moments. We didn't have much, but he always strode the extra mile for me. The time we saw Robin Hood. My first LEGO Star Wars set. Memories I'll treasure forever. Moments I'll never experience again. They say no father should have to bury their child, but to be a child while burying his father is heartbreaking. Even now as I think of it I can feel my eyes swelling up, and my throat clamping together as if a potato was lodged in there. I dread the day I forget each little moment. His eyes. His voice. Playing the Empire tutorial on the neighbour's computer because our couldn't. The little minute he was conscious and feebly kissed my hand before he minutes later lost his year-long battle with cancer. I miss him.
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| Swaeft's Submission |
Winter’s foul breath chilled every bone in my body.
The abandoned homes we marched by provided no source of refuge, for everything had been taken or destroyed, and the holes in the walls allowed the unrelenting, freezing wind to grace us with her presence, killing those she deemed unfit to carry on.
And yet we pushed onward, shouldering our muskets and shivering in our fur coats.
The lakes had long frozen into ice, leaving 200,000 men with no supply of water. The man to my right had lips as white as snow, and the man to my left had eyes so glazed over he may as well have been dead. We passed by abandoned farms – those that hadn’t already been burnt to a crisp, that is – with fields of dead crops wilting under the already weakening rays of the Sun. In these conditions, any one of us would have killed for even a taste of ordinary potatoes.
And yet we carried on, plodding forth to meet the enemy, if he ever deigned to show up.
Our faith in our Emperor was the only thing keeping us going at this point, but even that was fast expiring…as was I.
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Thank you to all who participated, and congratulations to both Duellists.
The voting thread can be found here
Duel between King Athelstan and Swaeft - Winner's Thread
Originally Posted by Cookiegod
Thanks to all who voted and cheered, and to Turk the spymaster for running this! Much appreciated 
) but I think it came along okay. (It was actually a refreshing twist to try and fit it in, thanks for that!)
