jamie
03-25-2024, 09:51 PM
jamie
She is displeased.
The reaper grins.
It is all he needs, this request. All he needs to turn from the necromancer, to peer through the shadows to find the creature he’d cobbled together in the depths of hell and breathed life (or the approximation of life) into. He finds the thing wandering in the Chamber and calls to it, reaching through the shadows for it. There is a moment of intense concentration wherein the reaper sways, wheezes with the effort, grits his impossibly black teeth.
And then the thing is there, blinked into existence in the space beside the necromancer.
The thing blinks, breathes its death rattle, bleeds the kind of blood that has some unknown source. The skin sags, sorely lacking in that ethereal glow the Fates had been born with. The thing is wretched with its swollen ribcage, its bleeding knees, its hair falling out in great clumps.
The reaper nods to the thing and then to Maurtia.
“Miseria,” he tells the thing, “this is your sister, Maurtia.”
And the thing turns and reaches, reaches and groans, “sister.”
The reaper grins.
It is all he needs, this request. All he needs to turn from the necromancer, to peer through the shadows to find the creature he’d cobbled together in the depths of hell and breathed life (or the approximation of life) into. He finds the thing wandering in the Chamber and calls to it, reaching through the shadows for it. There is a moment of intense concentration wherein the reaper sways, wheezes with the effort, grits his impossibly black teeth.
And then the thing is there, blinked into existence in the space beside the necromancer.
The thing blinks, breathes its death rattle, bleeds the kind of blood that has some unknown source. The skin sags, sorely lacking in that ethereal glow the Fates had been born with. The thing is wretched with its swollen ribcage, its bleeding knees, its hair falling out in great clumps.
The reaper nods to the thing and then to Maurtia.
“Miseria,” he tells the thing, “this is your sister, Maurtia.”
And the thing turns and reaches, reaches and groans, “sister.”
so darkness i became
