Difference between revisions of "Tain"

 

After Sharezan's men and Ais' trackts have a shoot-out during a raid in which six trackts are killed and five more were injured,{{book ref|ws1|6}} and Ais fights and arrests Lokmlen, they discover a suicidal and sickly [[Torkel]] alive in a hidden closet. The corpses of Torkel's family members were also found in the closet with him. He tells Ais that he and his family were imprisoned by Sharezan after he tried to back out of a secret deal, likely related to his access to Vey.{{book ref|ws1|5}} When Ais gets home she finds a letter from Sharezan waiting for her. In reaction to this letter Ais asks [[Mellis]] to take [[Melloni]] and seek refuge somewhere in the south so they can be safe from Sharezan, but Mellis doesn't listen to her.{{book ref|ws1|5}}

 

Presumably as revenge for his attempted betrayal, Sharezan personally executes Raagent in a brutal fashion. He sneaks into Raagent's sleeping chambers in the [[Tower (Taldain)|Tower]], uses Raagent's [[ShalRim]] bed sheets to tie him up, and then brings him down into the Tower's wine cellar where his cries for help won't be heard. Sharezan propped Raagent up against a wall and lit candles to provide some light in the darkness of the cellar. He then dosed him with [[kamo]], an emotional stimulant, and cut off his eyelids. Since, like all Daysiders, Raagent was afraid of the dark, the kamo, combined with the growing darkness from the candles burning out, caused Raagent's mind to conjure up all sorts of horrors. Since he couldn't close his eyes he was forced to endure these nightmares until he died from the fright.{{book ref|ws3|4}} [[Baon]] theorizes that the murder was done in order to lessen Kenton's chances of winning all of the [[Taishin]]s' votes, since Raagent was one of Kenton's supporters.{{book ref|ws3|5}}