[Mkguild] MK: Homecoming (3/3)

[Hallan Mirayas]

>This is why you need to carefully read the safety
>precautions for a Runic Weapon before touching it.
>
>    >>>>  Misha knows what the axe can do! It's
> Carcarak who failed to read the safety
> manual.  But to be fair it is written Hieroglyphics and a bit hard to read.
>     >>>>Had anything less powerful then
> Carcarak had done it they wouldn't have
> survived. It's drained the life from some pretty powerful people in the past!
>
>You're both incorrect.  Drift knew _exactly_
>what he was doing.  He was trying to kill
>himself, because he couldn't stop
>himself.  That's what 'death in his eyes' means- he expects to die doing this.

Eh, that kind of kills the suspense of the
scene.  It works better if Carcarak made a
mistake.  If he never makes mistakes then he's boring.

Besides, has he ever actually seen Whisper in
action that way?  I do not believe he has.

You miss the point of the moment.  I chose the use of names very, very deliberately in this story.  This is the only time in the whole story where _Drift_ does something.  Not "the wolf", not "the Beast", not "Carcarak".  Drift.  This is critical insight into their characters.

Given how many people have seen Whisper do amazing things, it would not surprise me in the least for Drift to know something of its capabilities.  Rumors will fly, and that wolverine still has a white handprint on his neck...

Hallan

PS- Of course Carcarak makes mistakes.  He dismissed Wolfram as a non-threat, and got kicked in the nuts for it.