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2024-10-29 19:42:56Sounds of plates and wooden utensils rattled against each other, along with curses and slurred words ringing throughout the room as drunken men bragged on about their exploits to other lands, while prostitutes and servers alike hang on to every word like one does with a gossip.
The bartender-a scraggy old man of mid 80’s shook his head at the chaos in his tavern and continued on cleaning the drinking keg in his hand, muttering at the sheer absurdity that some of the tales he was hearing.
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Parisa walked quietly through the forest, her mind flashing back to the village from earlier. It made no sense that a village would just disappear without affecting the other areas although it was the same with what happened to the Nordic settlement in Vinland thousands of years ago.But why? And how? Why would a group of people suddenly leave? It's not like they have run scarce the source of food that they lived off and decided to go someplace.And the fact that it wasn't just the physical bodies that were missing but the souls as well. It doesn't make any sense at all."Who could've done this..." she mused, as she walked through the forest, her feet barely making any noise.Akram followed suit, cutting down any branches or bushes to make a clear path for her, that for some reason is entirely in her own world, not noticing anything at all."Maybe someone with a grudge?" he supplied with a small grunt as he lifted the
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"Here, take this." Akram held out a brown faded cloak towards Parisa before placing his bag over his shoulder. "What is this for?" she asked as she looked at the cloak with curiousity, lifting the fabric gently as if it were made of glass. "It's for you," he told her. "Use that to cover yourself as not to attract unwarranted attention." he said, gesturing to the other's otherworldly looks. "The place where we are going is heavily supertitious when it comes to seeing something different." he explained. She raised an eyebrow at that, and with a teasing smile responded. "Am I that different?" He looked at her for a minute before shaking his head with a small chuckle. "Your looks...are not common," he told her. "Very few people have the same looks as you are, and when I say few, say about 0.01 percent of the entire world." She nodded, slinging the cloak over her shoulder. "And you say that us different are considered evil, is it not
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"Hey, are you alright?" A voice spoke from somewhere penetrating deep into his subsconcious, a voice of a stranger who was clearly worried at his state, he assumed in his mind as he slowly rummaged around in the darkness to regain his body like his was soul just took a trip and went back. But, his head hurt like it was hit by a club - a huge one, and so is his back. He could feel scratches-deep ones and wondered how the happened...was he in a trip through the forest again? Slowly opening his eyes, his brows furrowing at the onslaught of light in his vision that made him recoil at any blurred movement coming towards him, still trying to make sense with what happened. He slowly regained his eyesight and found standing in front of him was not a tall girl with gold and silvery eyes but two girls who looked like they were sisters except of course with the strange colour of their hair. The older one looking at him clearly with hostility while
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Null could sense the hostility in the other's voice and he knew for a fact the reason why it was directed at him-he wasn't an idiot per se, but sometimes he tend to play with other people's buttons so much that some tend to think that he was one. But at this instance, he would have to play it by ear, even if the person before him was exiled, rendering her almost human, it doesn't mean that she had lost her power. More so, she had gained more of it than when she was immortal. "Aww, is that you how you greet an old friend?" he asked, sarcasm dripping from his voice. Holding out his arms on both sides, he continued. "How's life treating you, Parisa?" "As good as someone like me is being treated," she replied coldly. "What do you want?" He chuckled at that, "I came here to visit and you are asking me what I want? My, my what brought you to that idea?" "As always, that's what you came here for, isn't it?" she asked. "for a favor." He raised both hands in the air in an appeasing gestu
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