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[PRIVATE] Leather for Lace

Sheba Posts: 114
Outcast atk: 7 | def: 10 | dam: 3
Mare :: Unicorn :: 15 hh :: 13 :: Frostfall HP: 61 | Buff: NOVICE
Minou :: Ocelot :: Sing Shady
#1
08-11-2014, 04:29 AM
All she ever wanted was the world.


As the sun sets over the tops of the trees, you drag your weary bones into the sanctuary of the cave. The damp makes you shudder, but the dimness is like an embrace. It cloaks this ancient, ugly bag of skin that stretches and sags in all of the wrong places over jutting hips and hollow ribs. Here in the shadows, a chill hangs in the evening air, but you will bear it until you begin to shiver. Then, you will crawl into the light and heat of the lava wall to rest, and after that, you will retreat into the darkness once more. Cold, warm, repeat: it’s a cycle you have sadly perfected since finding yourself in this sorry state.

A more sensible creature perhaps, would remain in the protection of the volcanic wall all night. It would certainly do you good, and spare you at least half the pain in the morning that the nighttime chill leaves in your achy joints, but you dislike the light. Under its steady glow, you feel naked and vulnerable, with your horrific age displayed for the world to see (which you are convinced they will, despite the fact that few venture down into these caves). But it is not mere vanity that sends you limping away from the light as soon as you are warm enough to escape: the orange flicker cast on your curved ribs is too reminiscent of the flaming stranger for your liking, too aggravating and terrifying a reminder of the one who did this to you in the first place. He, the cursed magician, had taken lace and left leather instead, turning your delicate, beautiful hide into a bag of bones before vanishing on you.

Thinking of him, a low hiss escapes your mouth, a hiss that turns into a wheezing cough that sends echoes off the tunnel walls. Eyes narrowed, you shuffle into the shadows again, half irritated that you have signaled your presence to any wanderers, and half terrified that they will find you. You don’t want anyone seeing you like this.

@[Finn]
OOC: Crafting thread for the two bracelets we discussed! I was thinking that they could knock some crystal off of the walls in the labyrinth to weave into the leather? As a side note, due to a quest, Sheba appears very old and wizened.

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