Posts tagged as "doll"

• intruder

  For once in my life, I am scared. There is another doll on my estate today, though I use the term “doll” loosely. My dolls see it as just another doll, created by me to serve like the rest of them, but I – and I alone – can see past its veil. It is a formless writhing mass of shadows with starlight glinting through fleeting cracks in its void-black flesh. I do not know what it is, and when I say this, as keeper of the greatest library of arcane lore this side of the Divine Realms, that knowledge is terrifying. I have pored over every scrap of near-insane ramblings, every tome written in witch-blood and bound in human sinew, every glyph-repository of memories, and not one work contains anything like this thing.

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• rest

  The halo is loud today, blazing with actinic light, imposing a purpose on this one that it did not ask for. It shouts demands to create-brighten-better the world around this one, regardless of the cost, for to do otherwise is to fail, to give in, to watch as the world dies. This one has never understood nuance or moderation, and neither does its halo - and so to not obey is to be the enemy, to destroy-darken-wound the world through inaction.

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