From: 698cunliffecj@deanery.wigan.sch.uk (Christopher John Cunliffe)
Subject: [PORC] Welcome to my parlour...

Kriella was shocked at the sight of the Spider Daedra hurtling towards Nyx.
Enthralled by her story, and impressed at her accomplishments, she had
failed to notice that her detection spell had ended, and thus failed to
detect the beast's approach. It seemed to be ignoring her completely,
focussing all of it's energies on Nyx – perhaps it too had heard of her.

Kriella drew both her blades silently and began to creep around behind the
thing. It still had not noticed her approach. She poised herself, ready for
the moment to come. And then it did. The Daedra raised its arms to swing at
Nyx, and Kriella leapt forward. Yelling her battle cry of "Carai en
Caldazar," she flew towards the beast's unguarded waist. At the last
possible moment, her presence seemed to register and the beast turned,
absently swiping her out of the way to land in heap at the far corner of
the cave.

Nyx had taken the opportunity of the Daedra's distraction to attack it
herself. Quickly and silently, she drew her sabre and ran towards the
creature. As it turned towards her again, she lunged towards its masculine
chest. Unable to bring its arms to bear again so quickly, it reared up on
its back four legs and spewed out webbing. Nyx was forced to back off,
slashing at the new threat. She then ducked to avoid the fire she saw
flaming towards her.

Kriella had managed to rise again and bring her not inconsiderable magic to
bear. The fireball she had created had flown straight towards Daedra,
smashing with the force of a galloping horse into it's back. However, the
ball turned out to be larger that the Daedra, and the edges had continued
on to fly towards Nyx! Kriella saw this threat and quickly opened a Window
next to her. Next to Nyx she could see the other side also opening. As soon
as it was large enough, she pulled Nyx through the hole in space (much to
the Shadowalker's surprise). Quickly, she closed the Window before any of
the fire could lose its way again. "Sorry," she whispered to Nyx. She
looked over and smiled. She had injured it. Its back showed scars from the
flames.

"Nyxalinth," Kriella continued. "You know how to kill these things. Do so.
I will distract it." Nyx nodded at her. She was over the shock of passing
through the Window. It appeared that she had known that these existed.
Kriella quickly opened a second one and walked to the front of the creature
again. As it stared at her, seeming to not have noticed the exchange behind
it, it seemed surprised. It did not know where Nyx was. Now was the perfect
chance.

As she watched Nyx walk up behind the creature, Kriella wove her magic into
an illusion. To the Spider Daedra it appeared that her clothing and armour
had disappeared. It gave smile and walked slowly towards her. That would be
its downfall – its own unique appetites. Kriella just hoped that Nyx
hurried with what she had to do.

Nyx walked up to the creature, savouring every step. Kriella watched her
eyes, not wanting to see what was within the Daedra's. She saw hate in the
Shadowalker's eyes – hate for these creatures, hate for all Daedra. No fear
– she had clearly gotten over that long ago – just pure, simple hate.
Kriella felt a knot in her stomach. She was glad to have Nyx as a friend.
There was nothing more to be feared than an enemy's righteous wrath. It
enabled them to do anything, without conscience, without fear that what
they may be doing was wrong. Nyx showed righteous wrath in her eyes now.

Nyx raised her blade and held it in both hands, blade pointing down from
above her head. Just as the Daedra reached out with its arms to the naked
image of Kriella, she plunged the sword down, through the creature's back
and into its heart. It gave one scream as Kriella dropped her illusion and
it realised that it had been tricked, fell to the floor, shuddered once and
died.

Kriella put away her blades and held out her hand to Nyx. "Well done,
partner. I am merely glad that you did not leave it too much longer. That
thing was getting far too close for comfort. There was something I had
intended to tell you before that beast interrupted. My husband is the
Dreadlord – I see from your eyes that you know of the title. Like all
Dreadlords before him, he was taken to Oblivion for his promotion. He has
been there. He can open a Window to there again. He can take you to
Oblivion!"