Imminent: Part 1

"Aahhh! Khadula!"

A horrified scream broke through the night in the Xylond Sanctum, scaring a handful of owls in the woods as they flapped their wings, flying away like possessed owls. The janitors in the Sanctum stopped what they were doing, looking toward the sound source.

Behind the Sanctum, in the massive, just completed the holy hall, the Night Lord bounced to his feet, heart in his mouth. He looked down the hole in his bed at Khadula, who crouched inside the hole he had dug under the bed.

She was one of Khadula's avatars, aide-de-camp, Khadula 1131. Before this Khadula 1131 became one with Khadula, she was the housekeeper cum defense assistant of the royal court of some ancient kingdom. Sent by Khadula, she would be the close assistant of the Night Lord, running errands for him.

"You may keep your voice down," Khadula 1131 said.