>>5717585>>5717572>>5717523>>5717512>>5717428>>5717405You decide to let the sad little thing go—not necessarily out of pity, though it IS pitiable, or even to appease Eka, but simply because you already have enough enemies without the risk of angering the denizens of the fairy realms. Your patron deity may have once eaten a sun, and you may wield the sword of the (so-called) moon goddess’ own son, but you aren’t yet ready to duel deities, and slaying such an ancient creature as this semi-divine fairy could draw… Attention… At a time when you have already picked a fight with the Serpent Priesthood, the Paladin Order, and others.
But before you let this whelp go, you have questions.
“I need no favours from you,” you tell it, but I will have answers, nevertheless.”
The fairy-thing’s eyes glimmer with an unsettling iridescence.
“You wish to know where the sword is, yes? Shoggy-sword, sword of the many eyes and too-many teeth! The se-sword, the sword-lost, the sword-that-can-be-shield?”
Your eyes widen. This creature knows of the shoggoth-sword, that tamed-and mastered remnant of the horrendous and amorphous creation of the Dark God fo Wisdom which you lost beneath the weaves in Hawksong’s bay? This True Fey… It know where it can be found? Maybe…
No. You shake your head. This gift comes with a curse, for all you know—and, knowing the animosity the Children of Light hold for your kind, recalling the tales of the so-called ‘War of Elves and Dragons, you have no reason to doubt this. You will not be tempted into ruin so easily.
“Keep your hidden secrets, creature,” you snarl. “Just tell me this: why were you and those creatures fleeing? Why did you attack me?”
“The answer to the first is the answer to the last,” the True Fey speaks sadly. “Dragons attacked us, we attacked a dragon.”
“I did no such thing, until you forced my hand,” you counter.
“No you, little man-dragon, with your ginger hair and man-pink man-brown skin,” the fairy explains, “the big one, tall one, green one, ANGRY one! The red-brown, orange-brown, earth-brown ones!”
