old cob Lyra lanre

Retell Skarpi 2 via old cob. Every third paragraph is fact.

Finish with Lanre donning his black armour and marching out the gates of Belen to walk the road to his doom.

God had a daughter and he called her Lyra was the queen of an ancient city. She married the captain of her guard and their love was deep and long. But Lyra had a secret that she never told, she wasn't really a human but one of the Fae in disguise. As such she had magical powers and could kill a man just by speaking their name. But she only used her powers to do good because not all faeries are evil.

Some of the bad faeries saw her as their enemy and attacked her castle with an army of monsters but her husband's silver sword kept them all at bay. Finally the end level boss stepped forward to face him and her gallant king fought but superbly could never defeat until one day he saw an opening and sacrificed himself so that his people might live. 
As his sword pierced the creatures black heart so did it's jaws bite off his head.

Lyra was distraught and knelt over her husband's corpse and commanded it to rise, which it did but of course it did not have a head and so it wasn't much use. Her pet wizard managed to sew it's mangled head back on but it was a shadow of a real man and from that day forth it hid his face from the world  his itself behing a black hooded cloak  Then she prayed loudly to god to restore her husband's life , but He was angry with her for the tormented creature she had shaped and would not sanction his aid. There are lines between the fox and the hare. Finally , since god would not bring her lover back, she prayed to the devil instead, and he said that he should not, but that he would consider if if the price was right.

He took her immortality from her and gave it to her husband, and sure enough, that did the trick the king sat up, put his head back on his shoulders and spoke his wife's name in love and everything was all right again.
In the night the price was paid
So they lived happily ever after, and now being as mortal as her subjects , Lyra began to age. For the first time ever, grey hairs started to appear and wrinkles etc Lanre, however, did not. With his cure came new found powers. A mortal with an immortal body meant he was liked a tiny god. He didn't need to eat, sleep nor drink and injuries healed overnight. But had did not age. He watched helpless as time eventually took his wife away then railed at the gods for being so unjust.

Without Lyra besides him, Lanre was a changed man. He had a dark shadow about him that always seemed to point the wrong way...
His chief advisor grew concerned and suggested the king should let him run the country whilst the king sought solace in warfare, the only thing he was really any good at, but Lanres country men loved him and encouraged him to remain their king , despite his odd shadow. After all, having come back from the dead you would expect a few scars.

Life for life, yours for his, he became immortal, she would age, wither and die along with her human subjects. 
His sacrifice should equal my own so she agreed. The devil took his name/ life/ soul and put it inside her, then he took her soul away and put it into her husband. 
 

By day he was a good king who was tirelessly helping the folk or the land he loved and everyone was happy with his rule, but at night, when all the world was asleep, except him of course, and the moon wasn't there to watch him , he undid all the good deeds of the day with terrible acts of violence. 

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