persephone_kore

Title: Whispers of the Three
Fandom: Neopets (Battle for Meridell)
Characters: The Three, Lord Darigan, Lord Kass
Prompt: 55. Spirit
Word Count: 188
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: Poetry again, previously published under the username Schefflera. The Three are spirits, possibly personifications, known as Ambition, Greed, and Revenge. They seem to like coaxing people into pursuing their namesakes, offering power, and then doing very nasty things as soon as their victim either loses a battle or wants to stop.

You know what we offer:
An orb and a sword
And all that you need for the making
Of power and profit.
Foes fall at your word
And vengeance is yours for the taking.

You know what we've given:
As Darigan's lord,
Before you were enemies quaking.
By sorcery riven,
The thieves' land was torn...
The orb sought, and found, and retaken.

You know what you owe us
For power forsworn,
For art and for knowledge forsaken
By those who won't show us
The little we ask for.
Demand and receive -- or just take it.

You know how you failed us.
Too weak to reward,
Lacking greed and a high aspiration,
You thought it enough just
To retake the orb
And conquer a single small nation.

We find you now useless,
Destroy the orb,
And leave you with confidence shaken.
Now drink deep of madness,
And of power shorn,
Begone! May you never awaken.

You know what we offer.
Lord Kass, say the word.
Receive all you need for the taking
Of power and profit.
Now gird on your sword.
You're ours, and it's war you'll be making.