Monthly Extra - Fey Minigame Excerpt
Added 2024-05-07 00:54:30 +0000 UTC
Quick note: the RO bonus stories will release this month, as well, on the Agent tier. This is the monthly extra, which is separate content. So don't worry, the ROs are still coming ;)
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His blood was made of strawberries. It’s the only part of him she remembers. The burst of water that swam through the sweetness, the rush of High Summer, High Courts and daylight running down her throat like bare feet through the fields the little wild fruits grow in.
It was a different time. Not one where any thought of consequence crossed her mind. But time ticked forward, the traitor, and here stands the effect of a cause.
“I hope you’re prepared to die,” a little human creature growls at her feet. The sword in their hand pushes outward with an aura of its own, nearly sentient - hedge magic. Her lip curls.
The sword makes a needle and thread without substance, and sews uneven stitches into her aura. One of fear, one of anger, too many more of disgust to count.
She hates hedge magic.
She grows a second hand from the joint of her wrist and plucks at the energetic strings, too fast for the human’s eyes to track. But she can’t touch it - it burns like a broken pact. Did she break it? She has no memory of that.
The human swings, and she drops her form. The sword passes harmlessly through the smoke of her. But it pulls her with it, the wind that races behind the blade gathering her back into solidness.
A fight it will be, then. She can smell something fresh just below the creature’s skin. A relative of his, maybe?
She smiles, and hopes their blood will taste of strawberries.
