ShaVeK HaChaver 814
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ACT I.
SCENE, Void.
FIEBES.
Midst the tempest of Black Jihad, Three-Fourteenth unravels.
The Great Deceiver slain by Geyer,
schismatics scattered, heretics slaughtered.
Bloody Ashford, Butcher of Deserters,
enjoin'd with Sixty-Sixth, tended the bloodbath.
Crimson palms made a martyr
of Fischer,
then were washed in cowardice,
like Pilate's–
cleansed like a mask unmarked.
The Archtraitor, stricken down,
only to be usurp'd by Sixty-Sixth's own–
the First Defender.
(Exit.)
SCENE changes to the Alpine barracks of 314.
Enter ALMA and CAMPBELL
ALMA.Enter ALMA and CAMPBELL
Trifling witch, I had fear'd this deception.
Alas, the ferocity of my anger is such that
One might succumb to the falsity
Methought it unprecedented.
CAMPBELL.
To arms, then, must we call the Coterie.
Bloodsister, rally Sixty-Sixth,
To spill the entrails of this villainous wench.
ALMA.
Forsooth, Ashford shall pay with her life,
Firstly for the execution of First King,
Secondly for shirking our Clamp-ed path
She had sworn so dearly to uphold.
Enter VOVK
VOVK.
What is all this I hear of duplicity?
Do we discuss the loathsome Eighth Quick?
Or, mayhaps, the pederast-exalting Third Union?
Who, in this wretch'd den of broken oaths,
Is subject to our daily connivings?
ALMA.
Hark! how another turncoat flees!
Ashford, First Defender, not only turns
Her back on the bloody clamp, but the den itself:
Three-Fourteenth.
VOVK.
Is this so? What perilous trails we navigate,
With each resounding success, a minor failure.
CAMPBELL.
A trivial failure this is not,
The desertion of Rank Leadership.
Doubly so the desertion of Leadership
Aligned with our dastardly interests.
ALMA.
Ascended in her place, I am told,
A municipal, dossier-fetishizing,
Buffoon. A calamitous trade.
I am once more alone, owing to this affair,
Isolated. I fear our growing opposition
Will seek my encirclement.
We ought eliminate Ashford,
As she had eliminated Fisher. Then,
Double our efforts in grooming a successor
Amongst Rank Leadership.
All nod in agreement.
VOVK.
Then it shall be done.
(Exeunt.)
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