>>6285691>>6285698>>6285719>3>3>5You keep. Your. Eyes. Down
This isn't a Lady of the Peak. Her presence is too sharp, too heavy, too.....something. You've seen Lady Earest before, chatting away with your teacher back and forth like friends, and this isn't anything like Lady Earest and you bet nothing like the other Ladies either. The queen lands in silence, perfectly so. There wasn't even so much as a tap on the ground.
A predator, realize. You thought it would be something like the queen bee of a hive but this is clearly some kind of spirit that either ripped its way to the top or was born there. You didn't know anything but a behemoth could scare you like this.
<span class="mu-s">"You've come again, Totemist, and brought a youngling this time."</span>
Even the queens voice alone is something like the whisper of death. With a tone almost demure it begins to walk on bony, knuckled wing joints, still silent, still making your hair stand on end.
>3>You are beginning to Fear<span class="mu-s">" How...splendid."</span>
"I'll thank you not to eye him like a prize, and remember this well, I didn't take kindly to one of your rotten flock trying to snack on him," came your teacher's curt response, "and I know you're here to put the scales back in order. You'd better not have sent it down to pull some kind of stunt with him, much less me. We're here on orders from the Ladies and not to have you shower is with gifts as some pretext for whatever it is you want."
<span class="mu-s">"Oryana. You know I'm craftier than that. I can do so much better. Gain so much more than just leveling the scales."</span> The queen circles behind you, pausing at your back, and you can feel breath on your hair.
She's too close. Too close to run too close to get away too--
>3>Your Fear growsTeacher Oryana moves to put herself between you and this walking nightmare, her hand against your back, steady and solid as her iron will how can she look at this thing your eyes are on the dirt beneath you how can you run how can you flee
>You feel a Whisper>You feel the Dark>You--"Get away from him. Now."
The Queen -run run run run run run- laughs a laugh of midnight and things that live in the darkest dark. Things that have lived for so long in those black corners hidden away until the sun was just another light that no longer had the power to contain it to the shadows.
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