Fears and Joys

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Italicize all that your muse fears

Bold any your muse dislikes

Do both to anything your muse is afraid, yet enjoys

Romantic feelings | Close relationships | Death | The Dark | Spiders | Dogs | Cats | The Unknown | The Future | Water | Deep Water | Heights | Intimate actions | Cuddling | Sickness  | Friendship | Loss of control | Pain | Allies | Betrayal | Emotions | Themselves  | Isolation  | Being abandoned | Cramped places | Their body | Getting close to others | Fire | Alcohol | Standstill | Their past | Fighting | Peace | War |  Murder | Invasive thoughts | Family | Blood | Numbness | Social interaction | Magic | Meat | Sex | Having a own Family | Poverty | Being touched | Unrequited love | Forgetting | Being Forgotten

Dawn

((Written for Teng, Orc warlock, on the Shadow Council Server about a billion years ago as a part of a secret santa exchange. Reposting for nostalgia ))

When shadows steep in silted skies,

And morn to endless night is lost,

There demons with eyes eager wait

To grant him means, but at what cost?

The price cannot be writ in words

But in his coughing breath it’s spelled-

The weary lines, the ragged scars,

All tell of something dark upheld.

Who asks to walk in endless shroud,

From flesh and soul extract that fee?

One sworn to free a broken world

Whose argent dawn he’ll never see.

Q&A for Rethelia

What is your full name? “Rethelia Fallowtide” What do your friends call you? “Rethelia. Some like to shorten it to ‘Reth’. That nickname always sounds like a sigh to me.” What is your favorite animal? “I like resourceful creatures. Rats... cats. And stubborn creatures. Those that live when the world tries to deny them life.” Where were you born? “On the road- somewhere between Elwynn Forest and Westfall.” Do you have children? "No.” Is there a person/people you love? “Yes.” What is your favorite color? “I do not consider this often. If you judged by my clothing, you would think I like smokey grays. Browns. Dark greens. Muted lavenders.” What is your full occupation? “Warlock. Rogue scholar. Inscriptionist.” Are you good at physical fighting? She laughs quietly, her thin shoulders shaking. Which form are you best at? “Negotiation. I work to avoid physical confrontation.” What about magic? "I work to avoid magical confrontation as well. I do not like to cause needless harm.” Which type are you best at? “My training has always been focused on the nature of the living soul, but my first spell was a shadow ward. They do not teach the apprentices that spell any longer, I am told. Pity.” Craftsmanship? “I am fair with a needle and thread and more than fair with a pen. I combine the two when I can, to add inscription through embroidery to the lining of my travel clothes. I prefer subtle work that is not easily detected.” Any other skills? “I know how to go unseen, but not in the way a rogue or hunter moves. I know how to be unremarkable. Similarly, I have been known to pull stories from the strangers that I meet without inciting their own curiosity. I have served as a confessor more than once.” Are you an only child? “I am my parents’ only living child. I had two older brothers. They died in infancy, before I was born.” Where do you see yourself in five years? "Alive, and that is a small miracle. The rest will reveal itself in time.” Have you ever almost died? “Yes.” Do you have a secret, not just a secret, but like a really big secret hardly anyone knows? “Few people know me, and fewer still know my profession. I keep that, and a number of other smaller secrets.” Salty or sweet?

"I rarely eat food for the taste of it.” Do you like yourself? "I do not dislike myself. I’ll do.” Do you believe in the Old Gods? “I do not doubt their existence, but I do not worship them or any other power.” Are you religious? "Decidedly not. But I do admire the stars.” Do you carry prejudice with you? “Some beliefs are hard to shake.” What do you consider entertainment? "Listening to stories. Reading. People watching. Researching. Fishing.” Favorite drink? "Water. Dwarven stout.” Do you have any family traditions? “Yes. Small traditions- warm moments and practices that would not be interesting to anyone else, I suspect.” Are you a good person? She smiles, perhaps a bit wryly. "I try to be.”

Tagged by: Aelberyn, a billion years ago @ourcollectivefantasy

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