"It''s never worked before-"


    "Well be punished if we-"


    his magic.


    , thing that had reaped my soul before I could go to my ancestors. That had denied me sweet repose among the heavens.


    thing that seemed greedy enough to defy death itself.


    spy in the caves! No doubt here to thwart the uprising!" the man cackled, and a pair of facsimile dragged a small girl I, and no doubt the creature recognize kicking and bucking into view. I found it odd that it cared so much for her, but it wasn''t completely without precedent. Sometimes monsters just... took a liking to certain people. Of course, usually people were a part of that monsters reproductive process - as in the case of Arachne or Harpies - but it wasn''t completely unheard of at least.


    "- theN wE wILL." the sudden change in the voice, from a strangely unsettling womans to the blatantly unearthly rasp as it completed its sentence caused me more than just discomfort. It caused me physical pain. It was so foreign a sound that for a few moments, blood beginning to drip from my ear, I could only stand stock still trying to puzzle the words out, trying to associate that voice with language instead of simply noise.


    Sort of Thing I guess. And Thane was pale because his current body had literally never encountered sunlight. They were an eerie, ghost like, matching pair.


    flounced - towards the Angler fish head before both they, and it, disappeared in another flash of purple light.


    Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.


    I was a terrible parental figure.