Act 1: To the Red Unicorn
The spirit looks at you sadly and it almost seems to you as if it would become smaller: "It was in the festival year. People were celebrating all over the kingdom, but I didn't feel like celebrating. A deal had turned out to my disadvantage and, to make matters worse, I was accused of theft. A theft that I had not committed!"
For a moment the voice of the woman becomes louder, almost thunderous, before it becomes abruptly quiet again: "So I had to leave the place of my birth, my beloved Gareth and fled over the Griffin Pass. But luck was not with me here either, and it was not long before I was poor and maltreated. I had never been rich and was satisfied with little, but so poor... I prayed to the gods, begged, pleaded...nothing! I had almost given up hope when one day I ran into the blessed one of Efferd. I asked him for a few coins, I even hoped I could accompany him to Havena, try my luck on the sea... but he... this arrogance... his look... this man...'he had no time, it was urgent, I was unimportant...'
When he had turned away from me I just hit him – over and over again. I dragged his bloody corpse into the forest and took his coins. Even his amulet, his robe and the scrolls he had with him I took. If the people already called me a thief and the gods didn't care about me, why should I care about them and not be what I was anyway in the eyes of the people?
I burned the robe and the writings at the next opportunity, but.... but... it didn't work." The woman's voice begins to tremble, she almost seems to panic:
"The flames took it all, but the one book, just didn't burn... it was all damp...as if fingers could sink into it. So I threw it away and ran as fast as my legs could go. It took me a whole day to realize it was back in my bag, just like that...like I never threw it away. That feeling on my hands, like my fingers were sinking into the mud...deeper and deeper...I can hear the sea...they are full of blood...everything is full of blood..." Eyes unnaturally wide, the woman stares at her hands and her entire appearance trembles....
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