by Safisan on Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:03 am
The winds picked up. Trees sashayed to their new rhythm, the beat of life shook instead of sauntered, and an ominous breeze began to filter into the clearing, mixing with her own hum, distorting it a little. She rejoiced in changing pitch and using the wind, as well as her own magic to turn the voice guttural, then into that of a squealing girl, next a lion's roar slipped into her own voice; the song soon became Abigail imitating a grown man's voice, desperate, tired and on the brink of death. She began to plead in a mysterious tongue, one with marked Rs and slithering S sounds, the plead dying from a yell, to a leveled volume, then a whisper, finally it all died down...
"Ha... Hahaha... MWAHAHAHAHA! MERCY?! YOU CHOSE THE WRONG GOD!" A grotesque voice, deep, gruff, with malice simply oozing from it, cackling cynically, its echo turning the trees to a standstill as opposed to shaking them. Slurping, gnawing, biting, chewing, then a satisfied burp. Should one be brave or enough of an idiot to witness the spectacle, they'd have seen Abigail playing with the piece of meat, which had now been promptly devoured. She wiped the blood with a sleeve of her dress, the white lace on the left wrist turning burgundy on some spots.
"I welcome you with open arms, blessed your fate that I am split in parts."
Her tone a sweet and motherly, too old for a child's and too young for an old woman's. "Welcome to what I have been, welcome then, to the death of life and men." Anyone inside the ring, and even outside of it for a good five meters or so, would notice what she did. The melodic greeting had been sung out using her illusory magic, turning the green trees barren, the sunlight gray, the grass to dust, and those empty logs into ashy sticks of wood. The sound of dripping could be heard. Slowly, one diminute drop at a time-- none could be seen however. -Drip, drip, drip-