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- Authors: Mariel Pomeroy
- Language: English
- Genre: Dark Fantasy Horror
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AHEIA
Fear was fickle because it was misunderstood.
It hid in the dark place next to the tragedy that made beauty shine, and the
worry that anchored excitement, steeping it in trepidation.
A necessary evil.
Or maybe not evil at all.
Maybe happiness wouldn’t taste as sweet without the feeling of impending
doom that crawled after it. And maybe fear, like all the other seemingly
unbidden emotions, was simply a warning; a warning that historically, caused
raised hackles and sharpened blades clenched in trembling and unsure hands.
Aheia was no different.
Because fear had always drawn out the contempt for herself. She’d viewed
the emotion as a weakness that had her balancing across frail eggshells on her
tiptoes. But for the first time since she could remember, fear didn’t matter.
“They nourish you,” a soft voice said, an echo across the impossibly large
span of nothing that surrounded her.
The dulcet tone conjured colors that weren’t there before, strips of reality
that fluttered on little wings, tethering themselves together in front of Aheia’s
eyes, and plastering across the aching darkness until the expanse of a
landscape filled her vision.
She’d been but a smattering of consciousness for longer than she could
remember, floating in nothing but black ink, but now that her eyes filled with
color, a new awareness weighed Aheia down—the feel of her body. Her back
pressed into something pillowy and her fingertips explored the new surface
below her carefully with each deliberate inhale. The air was soft, filled with
moisture, and it carried the smell of a forest with it—the pools of stagnant
water, the earthy underbrush, the flowering night plants, and the fog around
her. She let the petrichor expand her lungs as her gaze traveled over the
underside of thick, domed mushrooms with wide, brown gills that stretched
from the stalks and shot up toward the dark blue sky above. Heavy vines
were strung between the different fungi, symmetrical, green leaves as big as
her hand sprouting off of them and catching water in their bowl-like centers.
When she looked down, Aheia realized she was lying on her very own
mushroom. A huge, silky mushroom wider than the tree trunks she’d seen
within the Callay Forest of Keloseros.
Her chest was calm and peaceful, until her eyes snagged on another body
laying next to her. A female that looked a lot like Aheia; white, long hair
bunched at her neck, and navy-blue leathers underneath a long, burnt-orange
tunic wrapping around her torso. It curved along her breasts and stopped just
above her belly, where Aheia spotted dark ink that crept down the side of her
hip.
Fear was fickle, and it had evaded Aheia until now.
Until she saw the female’s face—or lack thereof.
“But you need to be careful.” The words came from the mouthless body—
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