The Burdens of the Word

The Burdens of the Word is the ninteenth chapter of Tales of Sheol'gotha:  Shadow of the Abaddon.

Synopsis
Palus returns to his desk, finding it filled with requests and requirements that are yet to be fulfilled. He wonders, at quite considerably length, how they are going to meet all their requirements, but is distracted by intruders arriving and taking piles of letters. Gadden explains that they are additional scribes he employed from the warehouses to help. He promises to help alleviate Palus' responsibilities, and goes further to admit that he is aware he may have fallen out of favour with Nazrin. He reveals he once pledged himself to the eldest De-jin child, and then to helping Che'ran.

He offers the support he'd arranged for Che'ran, or at least what little hadn't been annihilated by Fall-un'tir, and takes out a cinderscroll to write with. When Gadden draws attention to slaves making demands, Palus recognizes that he made them draw their weapons at Reitan, and may have blurred the lines of their roles. When Palus asks of the sorcerer he'd been questioning earlier, Gadden admits that he let her go free because there was no reason to keep her. Palus is immediately angered, slamming Gadden's desk, causing the vampire to strike him with a spell in defense. The general is infuriated, and it grows even more so when Gadden, threatened, in turn threatens to inform Nazrin about Calliste. Palus throws his axe but Gadden deflects it, Palus leaves before anything further happens.

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