This choice: I Can't Go Through With This! • Go Back... That irritating do-gooder was back on my right shoulder again, he always returned, no matter how many petulant swats and swipes are sent his way! My conscience, I mean.
Y'know, the little guy in white flowing robes and that natty little glowing ring above his head, arms akimbo and an accusing glare in his eyes. I prefer the advice of the other little guy, the one in all red, two fetching horns that peep out from the black curls on his head and such an endearing gleam of mischief in his eyes! He does have a nasty habit of poking me with his trident to make a point but Virt (short for Virtue), the other guy I mentioned before - he makes the pain go away with a wave of his hand.
But, Vic (short for Vice, yeah, I know it's not very long in the first place, but that's what he prefers to be called, Vic.) plays hooky a lot, he's not always around to help me deal with Virt, and Virt can get so blah-repetitive sometimes, I need all the help I can get. When they're facing off, at least they're not lecturing me!
So, Virt, virtually unchecked, since Vic is still AWOL, starts off, "You know it, I don't need to tell you but ..."
Yeah, you don't need to, but you will give me at least 2000 words of opinion anyway.
He droned on about how I was conniving and colluding with someone who wanted to commit one of the seven (or was it ten)? I wasn't paying close attention) original sins, How I was being seduced by all sorts of sins myself, like Sloth and Greed, not to mention Power and Pelf. Funnily enough these last two were minor sins!
"Whose idea was this whole imrpesonation? Why are you doing this?"
But the guy was starting to make sense, it wasn't my aims that I was furthering, it was someone else's. Those were neither noble or something for the 'good of the people', it had been pure wicked lust that had driven the King to his action.
"And exactly what else does this ex-King desire from you, he surely did not intend you to loll around all say eating rich food and quaffing his precious mad?"
That scornful glare again, it was giving me a headache!
I was to be roped in for murder at the very least, of a man I had nothing against except that he did not much favour the area in which I lived. Who was to say that his successor would be any better?
"And of course, you have this Kingdom to rule for ever and ever, you and you heirs after you?" A sweeping glance at the room, my inability to go anywhere without a horde of minions watching my every move, brought home the truth of my miserable existence.
Nor was this Kingdom of mine to remain with me for long, the rightful owner would depose me on his return. Would I still have a head attached to my shoulders when he did that, with all the knowledge of his treachery in that head?
I turned to Virt with despair in my heart and pleading on my tongue, beseeching, perhaps for the first time, "Help me, Virt. I can't go through with this!"
"Very well. But you have to promise to ignore Vic when he does deign to appear, after he has slept off his revels, see what happens when one carouses ..."
He would have go on about Vic for ages, he tends to fly into a rage on this one point, but I reminded him, "Let's get back to how we get out of this sticky situation, hmmm?"
"Oh, that's simple, a disguise and henchman, you provide the latter and I shall give you the former."
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