Author Archives: aineacushla

9:10 “We have two obvious options. Hold on,” Dempsey blocked a wolf lunge with his shield while striking out with his weapon at a wolf arrowing in from his left. Once the wolves were dealt with for the moment, Dempsey continued.  “Two obvious options. One, we split the party with me and someone else tryingContinue reading “Enter the Woods – 9:10”

9:9 “What are we missing?” Prairie whispered to herself.   “That is the question I was waiting for.”   She did not expect a response so when a voice, a foreign voice, answered from behind her she spun around with wide eyes and raised fists. Her eyes got wider and her fists lowered as she took inContinue reading “Enter the Woods – 9:9”

9:8 “Yes, sir, Sir!” echoed from several mouths. Dempsey rolled his eyes, hefted his shield, and stepped back up the path. Prairie quickened her steps to plant herself next to him and sent a reassuring thought to Kirby who walked up the path several feet before taking a ready stance with legs tensed and allContinue reading “Enter the Wood – 9:8”

9:7 “Follow the story! Stay on the path!” The ghost of Dan’s voice rang in Prairie’s ear as she stared at the line of the woods where he and Abe disappeared. She squinted, focusing her Magick, trying to see if it was more than just the ghost of his voice that lingered but she sawContinue reading “Enter the Woods – 9:7”

9:6 If this was a movie this would be where the Director would make some artistic choice to switch to a strobe effect or switch the camera angle from face to face to capture the horror or maybe even do a real artistic thing and segue to black and white comic book imagery to distanceContinue reading “Enter the Woods – 9:6”

9:5  Oof.    Ben fell back and rubbed his wrist, eyeballing the giant mirrored ball standing stark against the verdant forest he’d been wandering for who knew how many meros after he stepped off the path in pursuit of Patti. One mikro it was trees, trees, trees, and, oh yeah, trees. Then bam, in the path,Continue reading “Enter the Woods – 9:5”

9:4 When Dan said stay on the path, Patti listened. Guy hadn’t been wrong so far on these things. Made sense. Stay on the path. Don’t go into the dark. Here be monsters.   But, here’s the thing with being responsible for something smaller and more vulnerable than you, whether it was a kid, a dogContinue reading “Enter the Woods – 9:4”

9:3 So, they went to The House. As if, after Dempsey’s cards’ “tricks” they could do anything else. Well, they *could* have. Maybe smart people *would* have. People with some sense of self-preservation that outweighed their commitment or determination or pride. People who valued their physical well-being over their emotional one. Normal people. Nothing wrongContinue reading “Enter the Woods – 9:3”

9:2 Despite Leo’s being, well, Leo’s with the Setback crew shouting at something someone was doing that was probably dramatic and over the top and likely involved setting something on fire or flushing it down the toilet or whatever and the quiet plunk, plunk, plunk of someone idly playing with the keys on the pianoContinue reading “Enter the Woods – 9:2”

* Interlude – Roanne *  She’s walked this path at least a hundred times, maybe a thousand, the path to her Granny’s house. For the first time. though, she’s doing it in the almost-dark. She’d meant to come earlier but a book distracted her with its captured story calling to her to release it intoContinue reading “Enter the Woods – 9 – Interlude – Roanne”