[HQ Ignorance] Scene 117: The Cycle of Lei Tabor

[Lev Lafayette]

On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 13:20 +1100, Lev Lafayette wrote:
> General Ho Ki gradually gains an increased interest in the game and
> starts describing the pieces in terms of the capabilities of those
> forces around him. Aalmon picks up the cue and starts playing as if he
> represented the forces of Tabor, numerically far superior but enclosed
> within their walled city.
> 
> "But they also want to leave", Ho Ki says to Aalmon. "This I know, the
> rulers of Lei Tabor feel that they are strangers and outcasts in this
> land, and they wish to return to their home in Kralorela. But they are
> forbidden to do so, because their forebears acted against the Emperor
> and were cast into this desert."
> 
> He flicks a stone absent-mindedly. "As were mine..."

There is a long silence, punctuated only by crickets chirping in the
night. Uncle Pyotr, the Yao Fune follower shuffles over to look at the
game between Aalmon and General Ho Ki. He looks over the game and gives
a beatific smile.

"I hear to capture a King that is in his castle, you ought to sacrifice
a Bishop"