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Aisha's Guide

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It's hard to know exactly who to trust after you've gone through a suddenly-appearing hole in the slight rise of a hill next to you. The fellow that was perched on a boulder nearby, however, struck me as quite untrustworthy, if not downright dangerous. I glanced over my shoulder, already guessing - correctly, I now saw - that like every other magic portal in the fantasy books I read, it would now be gone.

No door. No hole. No hill. Just one HELL of a large, ugly beetle with a face that looked a bit too human skittering toward me at a pace that would have me in its jaws - beetles have jaws here? - in a moment more. Spinning back to look at the stranger, I felt a brush of wind, saw the faintest of blurs, and behind me the beetle-thing made a high-pitched shriek.

I turned again to see him sitting calmly on the shell. The head had rolled a considerable distance away and was still twitching slightly, antennae waving unsteadily.

"Let me guess, you're looking for the other... girl... who came through there, right?

That got my attention off the beetle-head and on the stranger instead. My voice nearly cracked when I answered, stress and relief somehow both warring for control.

"Yes... yes, have you seen her? Where is she?"

He snickered, revealing teeth just a tad more pointed than they should be.

"Follow me. I'll take you to Aisha."



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AsInCrazy's avatar
very beautiful. wonderful and brillant story. absolutely love the pose.