Chapter 5: Delivered by Darkness

 The night carpeted Montfort's ruins in shadows and darkness.  Looters and
thieves searched for treasures and dodged the patrols.  Another figure
prowled the night, Malikai.  He was drawn to the sound of screaming from a
half-collapsed building.  Four men and a woman were inside.  He felt their
minds as he waited.  The men were raping her.  He stood quietly, and watched
through their eyes.  He felt her flesh with their hands, and listened to her
pleading as they took their pleasures from her body.  He smiled at her pain 
as he invaded her mind.  

He waited until they had wrung everything they could from her, then he entered
He smiled as they turned to face him.  The fight was short and brutal. Malikai
took hold of their minds and turned them towards each other.  They were as
powerless against the Painlord as their victim had been against them.  The 
men attacked each other until none of them lived.  Malikai walked toward the
frightened woman.  He was an old and bent man with long arms clad in rags.
 He looked at her and spoke quietly, "Hello, Mary."  She jumped at the
mention of her name, and tried to gather the remains of her clothing to cover
herself.

"Who are you?" she asked him.

"Your destiny.  Someone to help you."

"Get away from me!" she screamed at him.

"I have need of you."

"Leave me alone!" she screamed again.

"No" and he grabbed her wrists.  She started to scream again, but was to
tired.  Then she colapsed into his arms.  Malikai carried the sleeping
woman back to the ruined building he and Alex were using.  He would
talk to her later...