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?))
"A question that would not let me sleep." Liana said, a sigh escaping from her lips as she approached the woman, lowering herself onto the cushion with deliberate grace. She then folded her hands in her lap, and for a long moment, she didn't elaborate any further. She just let the moment hang.
Liana certainly was a woman of few words, most of the time.
"I.. was born with.. access. Doors that are open to me, that many can't even find the handles of. Voices.. intentions.. current events, events that could be, events that already have been.. I learned early that my sight would only confuse me, and so I let it go. I find that in darkness, the truth speaks much louder."
She turns her face, not in the hag's direction, but past her. Towards something beyond her, both physically and metaphysically.
"I have left everything that I had known, and had held dear. I have walked through ash fields and along salted coasts, following something down a path that unwinds further and further the more I chase it. Each time I reach for it, it.. bleeds. Changes. Shifts into something else." She said, a small exhale following. "Here.. the threads are untangling. Old magic.. old hunger. Something buried here is speaking my name, and I intend to unearth it."
At last, her lips curve, almost amused by the whole thing.
"I have been expecting you too." Her fingers tightened and interlocked with one another, before tenting upwards.
"So, now.. wise one." Liana said, gently. "Tell me, was I meant to find salvation in this town? Am I following the right path?"
