steelmyself | who stole your heart and the key?

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a forest dark,
ic

who stole your heart and the key?

In the dark, you taste something sweet and tart on your tongue, almost like apple but not quite: pomegranate juice, out of nowhere. A hint of something metallic accompanies it.

You fall down.

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There are a multitude of passages branching off from this main tunnel, and it's impossible to make out which one the sound comes from.

As you try to press forward regardless, something seems to lap at your feet.

[angles the sword and... looks... down....]

It's a tarry black mess, oozing faintly around you. There does seem, at least, to be a faint, shallow pathway leading through it...

...but from the deeper ooze surrounding that path, pale things reach for you, arms and legs. Some are slender and some are muscular, but all are lovely and shapely.

...Seriously.

I offer up this contract, to bear the wicked spirit beast that sleeps within the earth!

[He might not be able to use magic here but he's sure trying to cast a self-speed spell.]

It works--not as much as it would outside the heart, but he can feel himself speeding up somewhat.

[Anything helps. Caster's trying to keep along the pathway, sword held above reach of the arms but low enough to show it, but he's valuing speed over accuracy.]

Why did it have to get so much creepier?

That works for a while, and the singing seems to be getting closer--

--and then a foot sneaks out and trips you, sending you directly at the oozing black mess.

Shit--

[pitches right into it, scrabbling instantly to get up, but unwilling to use the sword to cut anything just yet.]

It's tarry and sticky, and there's some nameless sense of lust just rolling off it now that you're this close.

Let go!!

[he's.... still trying to fight free while not causing damage.]

Well, in that case, the legs and feet are brushing up against you and the hands are grabbing at you. Honestly, some of them are starting to go for uncomfortable places.

They're very attractive disembodied limbs.

NO??!?

[starting to slash, finally, but he's already pretty damned tangled, squirming and uncomfortable.]

Sticky black blood, just like the ooze you're standing in, sprays out of the limbs as you slash at them and splashes onto you.

But they do start to retreat after a moment.

[God he hopes that won't have lasting effects on whatever's going on.

Scrambling to get back on the path, very nearly tipping over again but managing to avoid it, shuddering with discomfort.]

It does feel kind of like it...stuck. Surely that doesn't mean anything too bad, right?

The wind has died down a little, and the singing seems louder from up ahead now.

[:(

F-follow the sound, more slowly and carefully sticking to the trail now.]

The passageways widen into a full, echoing cavern here, with multiple tunnels leading off from the sides. An arch of stone twists across the cave high above, and perched atop it is a young girl, no more than ten or so, with white hair and a white nightgown. She's the one singing.

There are three swords stabbed through her heart, and blood drips down to the floor from her body. Drip. Drip. Drip.

[Slows to an incredibly tragic stop.

This is so fucked up.

...Approaching anyway.]

Hey.

She glances down at you curiously, her singing faltering a little. Then: "You're here."

Mmhm. Sorry, did I keep you waiting?

"There's no waiting here." She giggles. More blood drips. "You just keep going."

It seemed like she was waiting. The feisty one.

"We wait. He never comes back."

...Yeah. That's the impression I've been getting. Can I ask who he is?

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