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Writing Share Tag! #1

Thanks for the tag, @wyked-ao3 (here)!

Let's go with a creepy lil snippet from Grim City Chronicles.

"Knock, knock, little dove, where are you," Came the haunting, sing-song voice somewhere behind the wall, stalking the corridor beyond it, mocking him.

Anatole kept himself pressed against the door, holding a hand over his own mouth to muffle any sounds that could come out unbidden. In his other, free, hand he held Renèe's amulet.

He'd never been more sure that he was going to die. Still, a part of him held onto the magic pulsing within the amulet, and that part of him forced him to not give up just yet. It's just that the figure hunting him wasn't about to give up either.

A door swung open somewhere further down the hall, and Anatole could hear the creature ruffling through that other room, looking for him. "Your friend" Cousin! Anatole corrected, in the back of his mind My cousin!, before the creature continued "He can't help you now. But maybe you could help him. I'll take you back to him. And you'll be together. Forever."

Anatole didn't like how that last word sounded - especially not since it came out of a ghoul summoned by a dark magician. Given its undertones, something about it told him that the 'forever' meant 'stuck-together-between-life-and-death'. And that was not one bit appealing.

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