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Luca scoffed.\n\nThis was a common game they played. The three young teens were Paladins of the Flame, members of a team they called The Crook. The Crook was only given the barest of information before being sent off into a quest. For example, rumours of an unknown monster in a place the locals referred to as, “The Trail of Eyes.”\n\n“Wendigos aren’t real Mimid,” The blue furred Luca retorted grumpily, “They are just warning stories about hunger, and embodied fear of cannibals,” he wasn’t playing the game right. He didn’t want to play at all.\n\n“I think it’s a Witch,” The eldest member of the Crook, Lark said, ignoring Luca, “Someone who lures children like us to her cabin, before plucking our eyes out for dark rituals, and setting us in the pot to boil.” She told it like a ghost story. Mimid looked at Lark with slight concern, Luca just kept trekking down the wooded path faster. “Maybe the Witch will try to split us up and take us one by one, after all we already have a sourpuss rushing ahead,”\n\n“Luca, you’re not going to leave us behind, right?” Mimid asked, a tinge of fear in her voice. Luca was surprised. He couldn’t believe Mimid was actually getting scared. Luca looked back towards Mimid, having gained significant ground on the two. Mimid was always the most aggressive and brutal in the group. It was easy to forget she was also the youngest. But seeing her now spooked and asking to be comforted. She almost looked like a normal 12-year-old Lysca girl.\n\n“You have nothing to worry about Mimid, I mean even if a Witch got us in a pot, the water would boil away before any lasting harm came to us,” Luca said, continuing to lead the way, “And, ‘Witch’ is just a name given to anyone who practices forbidden magic. The fairy tale monster Lark is trying to scare you with-” Luca’s thought is cut off by his own terrified yelp as he turns a corner. He falls backwards onto his butt in shock and the girls rush up to his side.\n\n“What’s wrong, Luca,” Mimid says as she rushes to his side, putting hands on him. \n\nLark rushes up to the corner as well, taking a good look at what scared Luca, before simply saying, “Oh, creepy...”\n\nOf course that’s all she would say, Luca figured he would get lectured about how he should be braver when they got home as well. Luca gets up and inspects the thing that frightened him. Around the wooded corner some long sticks had been put into the ground, impaled through the sticks were countless eyes. In different states of decay, all roughly the same size, and the same striking yellow colour.\n\n“Oh, no… this is definitely the Witch,” Mimid speaks dejected.\n“No Mimid, I don’t think this is a Witch,” Luca says as he steels himself and continues walking down the Trail of Eyes.\n\n“Luca, you can’t just say no to everything, tell us what you think it is,” Mimid asks angrily.\n\n\nLuca passes by more pikes filled with eyes as he walks slowly, “The most specific behaviors don’t come from monsters, they come from people trapped in bad circumstances.” Lark passes Luca, turning up her nose at him.\n\n“You sure you’re not just saying that because you’re scared, Luca?” She jested, “You know, as the only boy in the group, you really should be braver.” Luca sighed, it seemed she wasn’t going to wait for them to get home this time. She was right though, he did squeal like a little girl, and it was very stupid. There was nothing a monster could do to him, even if he was caught off guard he would simply regenerate any wound given to him. And yet fear was something that seemed like it would never leave him.\n\nLuca decided to let Lark lead, following close behind her, with Mimid behind him. The three passed by more eye pikes. All with that distinct Yellow colour. Until they arrive at a log cabin with a rank stench coming through the front door.\nMimid opened her mouth to speak but was hushed by Lark, who had the group pile up near the door. She gave a countdown with her hands before reaching out to open the door quietly. Luca knew that nothing scared Lark. She was calm and collected. Luca wandered if he ought to be more like her.\n\nThe door was pushed open with the disgusting squishing of countless decaying eyes being pushed aside. The floor was absolutely littered with them. 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Single eye following him as he edges across the room, the sound of blood dripping from his eye socket punctuating every moment.\n\n“You’re not going to tell me this is just a normal boy, right Luca? This thing is unnatural, it’s a monster!” Mimid says, hiding behind Lark.\n\n“Well, you’re right about one thing, he isn’t a normal boy?” Luca says with a sigh.\n\n“Don’t come any closer!” The boy threatens with a shrill voice.\n\nLuca kneels down next to the boy so he can be on his level, “It’s alright, we can help you figure this out-” Luca’s sentence was interrupted with the sharp pain of being stabbed by a rusty knife. Lark and Mimid wince at the sight, Luca tries to be still through the pain in order not to frighten the boy. He takes the boy’s knife hand, gently guiding the knife out of him. Bewildered, the boy obliges, and it only takes a moment before Luca begins regenerating the wound. The cut ignites, divine fire pouring from the wound and onto his skin, bright and blazing for just a moment. When the fires die down, it is as if Luca was never cut to begin with.\n\nLuca lets out a long sigh, “This boy isn’t a monster, unfortunately it’s much worse…” Luca squeezes the boy’s hand, and as if on queue a bright light forms in the boy’s empty eye socket. Yellow sparks crackle and arc until finally the light dies down, and the boy’s other eye has fully regenerated. A bright piercing yellow colour.\n\n“He’s a Paladin...”\n\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "CW: Body horror, blood, gore, implication of self harm

“I think it’s a Wendigo,” The dark furred Mimid said to the group, “It drags its victims down the trail, plucking their eyes out before devouring them,” She said to her two rat-like Verling companions with a dramatic flourish of the hands. Luca scoffed.

This was a common game they played. The three young teens were Paladins of the Flame, members of a team they called The Crook. The Crook was only given the barest of information before being sent off into a quest. For example, rumours of an unknown monster in a place the locals referred to as, “The Trail of Eyes.”

“Wendigos aren’t real Mimid,” The blue furred Luca retorted grumpily, “They are just warning stories about hunger, and embodied fear of cannibals,” he wasn’t playing the game right. He didn’t want to play at all.

“I think it’s a Witch,” The eldest member of the Crook, Lark said, ignoring Luca, “Someone who lures children like us to her cabin, before plucking our eyes out for dark rituals, and setting us in the pot to boil.” She told it like a ghost story. Mimid looked at Lark with slight concern, Luca just kept trekking down the wooded path faster. “Maybe the Witch will try to split us up and take us one by one, after all we already have a sourpuss rushing ahead,”

“Luca, you’re not going to leave us behind, right?” Mimid asked, a tinge of fear in her voice. Luca was surprised. He couldn’t believe Mimid was actually getting scared. Luca looked back towards Mimid, having gained significant ground on the two. Mimid was always the most aggressive and brutal in the group. It was easy to forget she was also the youngest. But seeing her now spooked and asking to be comforted. She almost looked like a normal 12-year-old Lysca girl.

“You have nothing to worry about Mimid, I mean even if a Witch got us in a pot, the water would boil away before any lasting harm came to us,” Luca said, continuing to lead the way, “And, ‘Witch’ is just a name given to anyone who practices forbidden magic. The fairy tale monster Lark is trying to scare you with-” Luca’s thought is cut off by his own terrified yelp as he turns a corner. He falls backwards onto his butt in shock and the girls rush up to his side.

“What’s wrong, Luca,” Mimid says as she rushes to his side, putting hands on him.

Lark rushes up to the corner as well, taking a good look at what scared Luca, before simply saying, “Oh, creepy...”

Of course that’s all she would say, Luca figured he would get lectured about how he should be braver when they got home as well. Luca gets up and inspects the thing that frightened him. Around the wooded corner some long sticks had been put into the ground, impaled through the sticks were countless eyes. In different states of decay, all roughly the same size, and the same striking yellow colour.

“Oh, no… this is definitely the Witch,” Mimid speaks dejected.
“No Mimid, I don’t think this is a Witch,” Luca says as he steels himself and continues walking down the Trail of Eyes.

“Luca, you can’t just say no to everything, tell us what you think it is,” Mimid asks angrily.


Luca passes by more pikes filled with eyes as he walks slowly, “The most specific behaviors don’t come from monsters, they come from people trapped in bad circumstances.” Lark passes Luca, turning up her nose at him.

“You sure you’re not just saying that because you’re scared, Luca?” She jested, “You know, as the only boy in the group, you really should be braver.” Luca sighed, it seemed she wasn’t going to wait for them to get home this time. She was right though, he did squeal like a little girl, and it was very stupid. There was nothing a monster could do to him, even if he was caught off guard he would simply regenerate any wound given to him. And yet fear was something that seemed like it would never leave him.

Luca decided to let Lark lead, following close behind her, with Mimid behind him. The three passed by more eye pikes. All with that distinct Yellow colour. Until they arrive at a log cabin with a rank stench coming through the front door.
Mimid opened her mouth to speak but was hushed by Lark, who had the group pile up near the door. She gave a countdown with her hands before reaching out to open the door quietly. Luca knew that nothing scared Lark. She was calm and collected. Luca wandered if he ought to be more like her.

The door was pushed open with the disgusting squishing of countless decaying eyes being pushed aside. The floor was absolutely littered with them. A carpet of eyes, most stained with stagnant cold blood, that got fresher the closer you got to the centre of the room. And in the middle of it all, a small Verling boy with his back facing the three Paladins. The boy turned slowly towards them. The first thing they saw was his big green left eye, looking them over, filled with tears. The boy couldn’t be older than Eight. Then they saw the rusty knife he carried as he brandished it, turning to face them completely. Finally they saw the other side of his face, with an empty gaping eye socket, fresh blood still dripping from it.

“Oh Lord, what kind of monster is that?” Mimid says between gasps. Even Lark seems to take a step back, on guard. Luca takes a step forward.

“Careful Luca, we don’t know what it can do-” Lark speaks, but Luca interrupts her.

“I can’t believe you haven’t figured out what he is,” Luca edges closer to the boy, the boy’s knife is raised to him. Single eye following him as he edges across the room, the sound of blood dripping from his eye socket punctuating every moment.

“You’re not going to tell me this is just a normal boy, right Luca? This thing is unnatural, it’s a monster!” Mimid says, hiding behind Lark.

“Well, you’re right about one thing, he isn’t a normal boy?” Luca says with a sigh.

“Don’t come any closer!” The boy threatens with a shrill voice.

Luca kneels down next to the boy so he can be on his level, “It’s alright, we can help you figure this out-” Luca’s sentence was interrupted with the sharp pain of being stabbed by a rusty knife. Lark and Mimid wince at the sight, Luca tries to be still through the pain in order not to frighten the boy. He takes the boy’s knife hand, gently guiding the knife out of him. Bewildered, the boy obliges, and it only takes a moment before Luca begins regenerating the wound. The cut ignites, divine fire pouring from the wound and onto his skin, bright and blazing for just a moment. When the fires die down, it is as if Luca was never cut to begin with.

Luca lets out a long sigh, “This boy isn’t a monster, unfortunately it’s much worse…” Luca squeezes the boy’s hand, and as if on queue a bright light forms in the boy’s empty eye socket. Yellow sparks crackle and arc until finally the light dies down, and the boy’s other eye has fully regenerated. A bright piercing yellow colour.

“He’s a Paladin...”

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