XXI
Torundel was remembered forever after.
As no one doubted Torundel's honour, there was no guards in the luxurious suite he had been allowed to share with Uranumsia the last night before the execution. Rumours of them breaking the taboo, eating a last meal together and reading ancient poetry to each other, had spread through the city like wildfire.
Guests had been allowed, and the archivist of the B family was there crying like an infant. ‘I will eat supper together with my wife tonight, and I will teach her how to read!’ he said, ‘We will let no one break the sacred Sang laws. Your wife and her lover will live in peace and wealth in your house by the sea. The Dykeia of our age!’
The crowd was quiet when Torundel entered the ancient stone scaffold on the Square of Morteka, the Sang King. While they crushed his bones with wooden clubs he only groaned, and just before Torundel's head was cut off, he saw, through one remaining eye, the crowd kneeling in silent respect.
And Sang Lokko's words reverberated in Torundel's mind: I will have my revenge! My wrath will ravage the world! And goodness will grow from it. Like a sapling in shit.
Torundel was remembered forever after...
as Sang Torundel.
This is the last episode of Torundel the Shitposter! A serial fiction that has followed these rules:
211 words - Starting with the word Torundel - First and last sentence are identical.
This last episode has broken the rules adding three words to the end, as (to quote the B family's old archivist) ‘breaking rules, milord, is considered manly – daring – They just has to be broken in the right place at the right time.’
I have considered making an illustration for each episode making the whole thing a little book, but I can already now declare this piece Creative commons... and the bazaar open.
As I am not a native English speaker please inform me if something is misspelled, wrong or just horrendous English, and I will see if I can fix it.
Earlier episodes:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Part VII
Part VIII
Part IX
Part X
Part XI
Part XII
Part XIII
Part XIV
Part XV
Part XVI
Part XVII
Part XVIII
Part XIX
Part XX
