Tag: Hale things x 3

Hale could charm the pants off the devil if there were ever such a thing. It was easy meeting new people and easier to impress at a first meet but keeping them interested or keeping them friendly was the hard part.

“You made them uneasy.” the voice whispered into her ear and without looking, Hale could feel the shadowy presence of her familiar, even being upon the Dreadful Howl in the middle of the sea didn’t seem to change their connection. It was stronger than she remembered it.

“Have I now?” the Priest answered back in a low whisper while casting glances and nods to the deckhands here and there in passing.

She really hadn’t been on a ship for an extended period of time but there was a first for everything. With...

Doubt crept into her head but this was always going to be where she seen herself in the future and not how she got there. She couldn’t be within her own head, at least not now. Roiling pain filled every fiber of her being and blackened her veins. Hale could barely feel the small, cold vial that has stopped moving between her finger tips.

For a long time she was the one that created goods for those around her that brought others to their knees and meeting makers but she had never thought she would try the toxins for herself.

Slowly she blinked and the chilled moisture clung to the far corners of her eyes while her murky void laden eyes stared at the ceiling above her. Her stomach lurched again but it was not from the Skyflare toxin...

“You seen it didn’t you?”
“See what?”
“Them. How they were?”
“Of course I did, how could I not?”
“Are you angry?”

“No….she seems happy though she is different for it, I am glad she is in her own corner of the world where she can be herself and no one but herself.”

“There is no space for you there now. There is no space for you anywhere. Was that not evident enough with your little doggie friends?”

“What friends?”

Hale slowly blinked as she stared out over the water. She could feel the hissing voice at her ear and the looming coldness of the ever-present shadow that lingered. She traded a lot for the sake of tasting clairvoyance and power. A sliver of her sanity was coupled into the deal. Her headaches...