You’ve just arrived in a swampy, dim town. As you look around, your gaze is met with shacks and cabins. It smells of rotted wood and wet moss. You duck and step into a tattered tent, illuminated by a series of candles suspended in the air. At the back of the tent, an old hag raises her head, “What brings you to this dingy town? she begins, then pauses to study your face—”Ah, it’s you. I’ve been expecting you. Sit,” she gestures at a cushion, “Tell me your story.”
((How do you respond?))
He shuffles over carefully, mindful of the items scattered about.
"Well-" he starts, wiggling to get comfortable on the cushion, "I come from a far away forest! With big trees, as far as the eye could see. I lived in one of the big trees with my flock- er my family" readjusting himself, a small chirping sound resonating from his chest.
"What brings you here?" the crone inquired raising an eyebrow as she leaned closer.
"Alchemy! I'm an alchemist, chemist? Well I work with herbs and other ingredients, although I will say my experiment's do tend to end a bit explosively." He raised his left arm, the woman's eyes widening as it shimmered under the dim candlelight, an inky black sea of stars took the form of an arm where a normal appendage used to be, ebbing and flowing with the rhythm of the universe.
"This here isn't natural," he says with a smile waving his arm in emphasis,
"It's my own creation, I would go into how I did it but I dont honestly know myself!"
The Woman leaned back in her chair, her old bones creaking, expression neutral and unreadable.
"Well!"
she suddenly leaned forward grabbing at my human hand and grasping it tightly
"It seems you have quite the journey ahead now, dont you?"
She pulled away and I opened my hand to find a small plain ring,
"what do you-" looking up to find himself sitting alone no trace of the woman to be found. With her absence a strange feeling took hold, urging him to move.
He rose from the ground slipping the ring into his pocket and began to walk,
"It seems there's more to my journey that I first thought."
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