Post #956727 in The Gift, a roleplay on RPG

Miralight had been curled under the bar counter for most of the morning tinkering with a very small gem, and what looked like a bunch of sown together white stones, though upon closer inspection the stones looked more like large bones. They had lines and holes they were sown together by odd red cords that looked metallic yet no metal had that blood red quality to it without looking dull. The gem was cloudy and blue, it looked like a large but poor sapphire as she stitched it with the large bones mounting it on a plate of the same odd red metal. She had stood up to take the order slipping the odd bones and the stone inside her robes when she was suddenly grabbed and kissed on the cheek. She heard his voice but was rather stunned at the kiss and the warm embrace for several seconds.

About the time she realized who had just grabbed her and ran off the second brother did the same and she squeaked flailing as she was grabbed and kissed again. She grinned lopsidedly this time and waved after them before rolling her eyes as she was berated for not eating. They both were trouble.. complete and total, they interrupted her work constantly, then helping them out with the bar took time away from her projects as well. Though.. she enjoyed them.. they listened to her, they helped her when they could and they always made sure she ate and slept. She wondered if she would have turned herself into an undead by now to keep herself from falling dead to starvation if it wasn’t for them. Though the prospect of becoming undead seemed wrong somehow.. not that she was against it really!

”I’ll eat!.. as long as you two let me stay up late!” she grinned brightly and then slid the plate of food for herself off the counter. She extended her will to the small rope constructs that looked much like dolls near the side of the room. The dolls shivered to life and grabbed the plates that needed to be taken to the various customers sliding through the room gracefully and relatively unnoticed as they made their rounds. Mira slid to the back corner of the bar and ate, she did hate one thing about living with the brothers, she never got to pull all nighters.. they had a conspiracy to make sure she was sleeping after the first week of getting her workshop in the sub cellar of the bar when she didn’t sleep the entire week working on her creations.. well one creation.. but even they didn’t really know about it. They took turns grabbing her from her work and dragging her to bed, then once they had her they would bear hug her until she fell asleep. She tried about anything she could think of to get away.. even locked her door, but they found ways.. they always did and each night she was drug off and hugged like a teddy bear until she was asleep.

It put a huge dent on her work time.. though it was nice to curl up to a warm body at night. ”Lo!! I’m going to take my lunch down stairs! I’ll be back! The girls have it covered!” she bellowed as she spun her finger in the air, the two rope dolls waited patiently for Lo to finish the orders so they could diliver them. Miralight slid through the back rooms then down the first set of stairs. She slid through the cellar, then found the small passageway in the back and wove down the staircase into the large vault like room below. The room was covered from back to front with metal, junk, bones, and cloth, it looked like a storage room in a hap hazard mess.. yet.. to her.. it was perfect.. everything here she needed for her project.. ever piece was important.. and every piece brought her closer to making what even the Gods couldn’t have managed. She pulled out the bones and the stone, her hand sliding over the stone as it shifted and whispers came from it. The stone glowed in the dark room casting an eerie blue light about Mira’s face as she smiled brighter down at it. It was what people called a stone of souls.. the stone itself held many souls.. they were used to power the most powerful of constructs.. though getting it had been almost as hard as getting the skull.. still.. it would be worth it.. in the end.. it would all be worth it. The whispers stopped and silence slid through the dark room… at the side of the room a large dark figure draped in cloth loomed over the rest of the chaos, its form totally lost in the folds of fabric that concealed it.. though whatever it was made the room look horribly small. Mira slid her hand over the cheek bone of the black skull that had been Nhil’s constant companion.. and now was hers.

”Just a little more my friend.. it wont be long now.” She slid to the work bench and began working on the order for stirring spoons and animated brooms.. they would take her the rest of the afternoon, but the price they would fetch would be enough to buy a couple more parts she needed.

Snippet #956727

located in Gia, a part of The Gift, one of the many universes on RPG.

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