Your character has just arrived in a swampy, dim town. As they look around, their gaze is met with shacks and cabins. It smells of rotted wood and wet moss. They 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 lowered his hood as he stepped closer, brushing a smear of swamp mud from his sleeve before sinking onto the worn cushion.
He cast a cautious glance at the candles, watching how their flames flickered even without a breeze.
He murmured that he hadn’t expected anyone in this miserable place to know his name.
His voice stayed low, edged with the kind of tension carried by someone who had traveled too far with too many secrets.
He insisted he was only passing through, though even he didn’t sound convinced anymore.
Still, he held his posture carefully, as if revealing too much might crack something fragile inside him.
If this old woman truly had been expecting him, then she must have already sensed that his story wasn’t one he shared lightly.