fight fight fight fiiiight... awwwwwwww captured!

After Valkryn whined to the queen about how dishonoring it was for me to back out of fighting Zodiac. So I reissued to the challenge and today was the day it was finally going to occur. I walked about calmly in the woods and met Tanith. We talked a bit and horsed around, we're still kind of in the middle of deciding who's tougher. I think sine she's a drow she dosnt like the idea of a boy being able to beat her in a poking contest or something.

We talked about Marquie and she teased me about how I was probably in love with her and wanted her for myself. That got her an extra pouncing. I headed off to a clearing where I felt Mar near. It was good to see her around because Zodiac had dared to try to lock her up before the fight yesterday. I forced him to release her then and so it was good to see he'd had the goood sense not to do it again.

The fight was incredibly long. I delivered enough punishment to kill a couple of men but Zodiac just wouldn't fall down. I caved in his ribs and punched him in the temple and delivered a good chop to his breastbone, but he just kept getting up. By that time my jaw was a little sore and I'd been punched in the stomach once, but I didnt want to have to kill the guy just to end the fight so I called a draw.

Marquie was mad and I went over to her while Zodiac wondered off to either take care of his wounds or collapse and die. Mar and I talked and eventually she brightened up when she realized that everything was done and things would be ok. We went to find Zodiac and the three of them went and got a bath while I stayed on shore, though I eventually ended up getting lured in by Mar.

We went and changed clothes after that and those three went to bed while I went back to Dragonshire to inspect a strange person I'd seen during the fight. Lucky me, she turned out to be a shadowmancer and captured me in short order. She was trying to force me to tell her about Star, Zodiac's little sister, but when I told her to fuck off she shoved a bar of soap in my mouth and then put me to sleep. I was chained up and I wanted to stick around and figure out what she was up to, so after a while I drifted off.