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7/8/2025, 2:18:40 AM
>"Iliira," she told Korbin. She could feel her strength slowly slipping away, but this was important. "Her name is Iliira. Iliira. Don't - don't forget it..."
>Korbin said something. The human male better have been agreeing with her, because if he wasn't, Avaunya would...
>She'd...
>...
>How ridiculous, to die in childbirth. It was absurd. It was unheard of. What matron mother would die to her own child before that child had even drawn its first breath? Especially to a daughter? How hated by Lolth would that matron need to be?
>Very, it would seem. There was...so much blood. The midwives were doing what they could, but this pathetic hovel of a village didn't have any priestesses. No clerics to their heathen gods, just minor acolytes who lacked any magical ability. Not even the most minor healing draught.
>And Lolth had abandoned her. The simplest orison was denied her. The Goddess had truly forsaken her.
>Good. What use had she ever been? Avaunya had followed Lolth her whole life, and what had she done? Cursed her with that moron of a first daughter, Ectanis. Turned all of Tlauk'kur against her House. Corrupted her teleportation and sent her to the surface. Left her.
>So damn Lolth anyway. If Lolth had abandoned her, then she had no claim on her daughter. Let Iliira follow these humans' heathen gods instead. Let her grow up never even hearing the name Lolth. Let her know the sun and moon and stars...
>Avaunya lay back. She heard Iliira crying. She couldn't hear much else, but Iliira was crying.
>What kind of daughter cried when she'd killed her mother? How very un-drow of her...
>Avaunya smiled...
>...and...
>...stopped.
>Korbin said something. The human male better have been agreeing with her, because if he wasn't, Avaunya would...
>She'd...
>...
>How ridiculous, to die in childbirth. It was absurd. It was unheard of. What matron mother would die to her own child before that child had even drawn its first breath? Especially to a daughter? How hated by Lolth would that matron need to be?
>Very, it would seem. There was...so much blood. The midwives were doing what they could, but this pathetic hovel of a village didn't have any priestesses. No clerics to their heathen gods, just minor acolytes who lacked any magical ability. Not even the most minor healing draught.
>And Lolth had abandoned her. The simplest orison was denied her. The Goddess had truly forsaken her.
>Good. What use had she ever been? Avaunya had followed Lolth her whole life, and what had she done? Cursed her with that moron of a first daughter, Ectanis. Turned all of Tlauk'kur against her House. Corrupted her teleportation and sent her to the surface. Left her.
>So damn Lolth anyway. If Lolth had abandoned her, then she had no claim on her daughter. Let Iliira follow these humans' heathen gods instead. Let her grow up never even hearing the name Lolth. Let her know the sun and moon and stars...
>Avaunya lay back. She heard Iliira crying. She couldn't hear much else, but Iliira was crying.
>What kind of daughter cried when she'd killed her mother? How very un-drow of her...
>Avaunya smiled...
>...and...
>...stopped.
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