DnD Wife Stories

Drexla rose up into the air, scanning the local area for danger or anything strange. She looked down one of the alleys that Bogbean had gone down earlier she spotted the window of one of the building slowly slide open. She watched, expecting someone or something to come through the window. Nothing happened for a few moments. Then the window slid closed as slowly as it had opened. Then nothing, not even the breeze stirred through the alley.

She flew down to Bogbean and asked her,

“Follow me, quickly!”

Bogbean followed, with the others close behind. She came to a stop at the base of the window Drexla had seen closed. A little ways away from the window she saw the creature. It was covered in blood and was licking its claws clean of the red liquid when they came to the window. Drexla saw nothing but felt a dreadful sense of fear wash over her. She saw Bogbean begin to back up as well. In desperation she quickly used the scroll she had and sent the burning spell hurtling towards where she saw Bogbean staring. The spell went flying then flared up as it hit something.

For a brief moment the creature lit up and was visible to the entire group. Where it wasn’t on fire, it had dirty matted fur, long claws and fangs covered in fresh blood. The face was the worst. A child’s face with a horrible rictus grin of razor sharp teeth and wide, innocent looking eyes that belied its dangerous nature. The combination was sickening. It screamed in agony, a horrible piercing sound that echoed in the alley. The fire burned out and it became invisible again, but Bogbean could still see it. It cackled despite the damage it had just taken and even the others could hear it. It disappeared and even Bogbean couldn’t see it anymore.

Moments passed in silence as the group waited with baited breath for it to make a move around them again. Nothing happened. V was the first to speak, trying to break the tension,

“Well, that was weird.”

“So what just happened?” Tobias asked.

Bricky bent down and gave Bogbean a hug. She was still very shaken from the encounter. Tobias felt a pull at his chest. It was his necklace. It pulsed with energy and as he got closer to where the creature had disappeared it hummed with increasing power. The area radiated energy like the dreamscape. He felt that same energy in his dreams when he was with the lady of stars and shadow. Th creature had escaped into the dreamscape somehow. They would have to go there to confront it, if they wanted.

Drexla shared what she had seen at the window with everyone else. How it had opened and closed without her seeing who had done so. It was most likely the Mr. Peepers.

“It was clearly in there doing something.”

“Vould you go up zhere to see what it did since you can fly?”

It was a tight squeeze, but she managed to get through a small opening in the window. The smell had not been as bad outside but now, inside the closed room, it was unmistakable. A musty copper smell hung in the still air. Drexla knew what that smell meant, what that amount entailed.

“Uh, someone or something is dead in here.”

Drexla wanted to try and get a look if she could. She covered her mouth with an old rag and flew to the ceiling to try and get a better view in the dark room. The only thing she could see was dark red covering vast swaths of the room. In utter disgust at the wonton bloodshed, she let herself drift down onto the bed. She felt the soft squish of the bed underneath her feet, but it shouldn’t squish. She looked down and realized she was standing inside the open chest cavity of a Mir’Sha woman. She hadn’t noticed the body and immediately jumped out as she retched at the thought of where she had been. The others looked in as they saw Drexla straggling away from the body.

“I’m out of here.”

They only heard the words before Drexla was already out the window into the fresh air. She took a big breath, eager to forget the density of what she had just escaped.

“I don’t think we want to go in there.” Tobias opined. “I don’t think we can go to the guards with this considering Bricky already attacked the children.”

Bricky noticed something about the dead Mir’Sha. The fur was of a similar coloration as one of the cubs that had been playing with Ella the other night. The striped grey fur was the same.

Luna surmised, “The child or mother must have been mean to her at some point.”

“Well, on the bright side, we can hurt it with magic,” Drexla informed the group, “The bad news is that I don’t have any magic, that was one of the last things I have that do magic damage.”

“Vell, if ve von’t tell anyone about it, do ve vant to drag the body out here for them to find?”

“I am not going in there!” Luna exclaimed.

“You want to drag it out into the alley?” Tobias asked, incredulous.

As they closed the window, a small sheen of red began to form as the closed room steeped in the spilled blood

Drexla began to fly, “I am not sticking around. I’m getting out of here before we get into trouble.”

“Well,” Tobias interceded, “we might want to tell someone since it is so fresh and we are the last strangers to come through here. We don’t want them to think we had something to do with it.”

“You’re right, we should find whoever is in charge and let them know.” Luna agreed.

“Alright then, let’s look for a person of authority.” Tobias began to move towards the center of the camp to find the elder from before.