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i wish you a death that is violent
and when you call to your thousand gods, they are silent.
NAPOWRIMO DAY 20!

Landays are couplets that originated in the Middle East, consisting of 9 and 13 syllables.
Reminds me of a haiku, where you have to pack a lot of punch in just a few words. 

Anyway, this is what you say to traitors.
Particularly ones who just tried to literally sell your soul to their world's devil. 
And sailed off with a ship full of gold, leaving you to be eviscerated by some crazy cult.
After spending years as your traveling companion and friend. 
And making you think that maybe, just maybe he could've been more than that, too.

Ah well, at least he heard her deliver this nice little epithet.
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kilkegard's avatar
I like the back story about this being what is said to traitors.  It sounds like very like a curse from a foreign land or a fantasy realm.  The idea that someone would have a thousand gods and those thousand  gods would remain silent when called to...  brutal.