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Fat droplets collapses on the foggy marsh, densifying the already hard to see horizon to an absolute white. It slams on both ashen and murky water with no respect for the frowning giantess’s session of reflection admiration. A wooden nameplate hangs around her neck with the cursive ‘Amerie’ etched on it. So Isaac, Mira and Haures call her Amerie with Haures finding familiarity and asking her why but Amerie either ignores or shrugs him a cold shoulder.
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Her torn rags finding raising no shelter for her bare body. Brash lines stitch her sides, abdomen, back, and neck. Her shoulder hunched and head downcast, making Haures suspicious if she has done something wrong but Isaac simply tells him off that it is normal for her to act this way. “She looks like a slave…and she has been eating rats…what do you expect from someone like that?”
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“At least a bit resilient.”
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“Mira cannot believe, Mira felt that coming from her. That giantess is a strange one.”
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They ask Amerie to take the front in finding the other siblings again, with no plans on how to try and stop them. Still, despite their honesty of a surefire defeat, Amerie decides to walk front and sniff the air. She walks, steps sometimes dipping into the pools but all the wraiths have already decided to leave and the pools are left empty.
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“Does she know?” Haures ask, looking at Isaac who asked Mira and him to bring outside. Which they convinced her but then, Isaac does not know and shakes his head. “mmkay”
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After five minutes of walking, Amerie suddenly started running. And the three followed suit, asking Amerie to slow down and stop but she is on full speed charge at whatever she is seeing in front of this pure white wall of fog. The rain and sky flashing by the occasional thunder claps. With the mud devouring and slowing their feet efforts.
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“This will not do.” Haures says before uttering silent words and the ground around him in a five-meter radius turns to ash. “Ride on me”
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“W-what!? It is okay, I am okay”
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“I said, ride”
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The ashy ground acts like quicksand for anyone who is not Haures’s feet so Isaac has no choice but to climb on the bulky boy’s warm back. Mira quickly hangs herself around the vine belt as well before they get asked to hold on. The veins around his eyes glow red and Haures charges full speed. Every step extends the sinking ashes. Before they all see Amerie’s shadow still running forwards before jumping over something. Which Haures does not recall anything about a wall of crosses. He extends an open palm and tries to flatten out a section but nothing happens. “Strange!” He yells before grunting and leaping like a beast. Isaac and Mira screaming out as if this is a thrilling ride.
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Amerie stops, panting in front the shadows of houses. The trio soon catches up to her walking around and they find themselves bewildered by the fact that there is a village in this marsh. Dug graves line by the dozens as far as the fog allows them to see. There are people as well, people by the flesh that Haures and Isaac never thought of seeing more of them! But strange, they all are avoiding them. Hiding behind the houses, windows, and grave stones.
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“Ugh, Mira got the creeps in this place.”
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“A graveyard” Isaac says, “A graveyard village that people used to build to house those who fell in wars, these places are usually made because of kingdom being unable to hold anymore corpses in their catacombs!”
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“You know a lot” Haures commends, which he does not even know why he gave him one.
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“Hehe thanks”
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“I did not know about this” Haures says, “Nor is it written on anyone’s entries.”
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“Ah look!” Mira who has gotten off again, tries to stand on one of the gravestones but simply passes through it.”Are these ghost stones!?”
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Isaac asks Mira to stay close but her finding sparks their curiousity to try and touch something in this village. Their hands go through houses, Haures’s ash does not change the ground, and Mira tried to catch a resident but they disappear in thin air. Strange, all too strange that Amerie even led them here. They all run up to the giantess who seems to be looking for something. Her tall stature of 8 feet finally craning against her hunch and she starts running again.
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“Where is she going this time? Mira keeps getting chills from her everytime!”
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Isaac did not decide to ride Haures this time, who was sadly expecting someone heavy pressing down on him. Either way, they all run up a hill. Again, a place that not even Haures recognizes.
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“I thought the marsh is the only foggy part” cussing at his shaking legs.
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“Me too” Haures replies, before noticing Isaac’s legs, “Want another ride?”
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“No thanks”
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A withered birch tree stands on top of the hill, purple flowers blooming along its branches. Along its bark are holes and Isaac says that there is nothing here with Amerie simply staring up at the tree. Until Mira calls the gang about something inside the bark.
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“Interesting” Haures says, “Like Zephyr likes”
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“True, there is a cauldron. Some hanged ingredients and four beds with one round table. Then some cabinets. This interior look awfully like the hut”
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Mira gasps, “Mira think so too!”
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“Now that you mention it…” Haures takes a closer look and there on the table, are four what seems like notebooks. “Bunny, take those.”
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“Even if Mira is small. Mira is proud to say to be big breashts and big everything that many will find me likey.”
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“Your hand fits” Haures picks up Mira from Isaac’s belt, “Get in there”
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“Gah! Hands off me dumb brute!” her hand forced to plop into the tiny hole and reach out for the notebooks. “Got it”
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Haures pulls and plops Mira back out. He takes the book and says the obvious. “It is way too small”
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“Duhh! Dumb Brute forced Mira to get something.”
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Isaac walks up to Amerie and ask the giantess if there is a reason why she brought them here but she is simply staring at the purple flowers that were once blooming but now have wilted. Something is on her face as well. It is not the rain sliding down her cheeks and chin, sorrowful with darkened eyes that he barely notices it. “Are you crying?”
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Thunder streaks across the sky and strikes the birch tree. Fatter rain falls on everyone who have blacked out on the mud. Haures is the first one to snap out of the dizzying and tinnitus, slowly standing and regaining his balance. Mira follows after then Isaac. But then, Amerie remains on the ground.
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“Hey, hey, this giantess. Mira thinks she is not breathing.”
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Isaac quickly runs up to her and check on the chest and the base of her wrist…But there really is no pulse. “Amerie, miss Amerie?”
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“Dead like that?” Haures says, “I expected more,”
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“The lord magister always visits her, hey…miss Amerie? Wake up.” Uttering silent words with the familiar pool of fear in his chest, Isaac’s eyes blacken.
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Haures whistles as he watches with Mira’s tail once again wagging wildly. The two beasts watch as this unfamiliar power welling out from the boy changes his rounded ears to pointed, hair spiked and marks that only Mira can recognize start appearing on his face. “Why oh why” Mira says but Isaac cannot hear her, “I have been always right about you, boy.”
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“What do you know bunny?” Haures asks, curious too.
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“Heh, Mira will not tell, until Mira frees him from that wrinkled old bones.“
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Isaac continues to transform into someone different, the mist around them slowly dispersing…no, slowly disappearing. Uttering more silent words, even with bending that the boy himself has never been familiar to, dark energies flowing from him breathe onto Amerie’s skin. But still there is nothing. And his growing fear sparks to spike in the dark energies around him, completely disappearing the mist from the hill. Haures keeps his observations for himself while also glancing at Mira whose form alters slowly back to her child like figure. ‘Null?’ He thinks, ‘No, anti-Mahna? Feels too different. Reversion? Similar but something is different. Like cycling through waking and slumbering. What is this…’
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Then the ground shakes and Isaac breaks out of his form, fainted back to unconscious.
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“Gaaah! He’s such a maintainance.” Mira picks him up before bidding adieu to Haures. “Follow us and you’ll face me beast” This time, Mira’s smile cuts through her entire face. Two tails growing out at the end of her spine before claws grow out of her nails and fur replace her skin. A true presence of a beast—a ‘showoff’ Haures thinks as Mira leaps and disappears into the mist.
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Leaving the boy in the growing quake before giant pointed vines parts the mist behind him. Uttering silent words and everything within a kilometer shade in black and white. Bending one arm as if he is scooping the air and crushing it. Everything within a kilometer became ash with an unseen force sweeping the ash and mist apart. There, he can see now through the rain with the fog slowly creeping back in.
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He wastes no chances in sprinting for her floral sister, with eyes eager and a mind still filled with questions. “No time for sleeping beauty Zephyr.” Silent words after silent words, his eyes glow scarlet red and the entire 100ft high tumor of vines explode in a rain of ash. “Ah…She is really troublesome…” Three more vine tumors remain seen and probably more.
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