by Mousen » 01/04/2019 7:22 PM
Hylas coughed, quietening the sound with their hand. However easy they made being dead look, their lungs didn't necessarily appreciate it. They did a quick check of themselves, everything in the right place, nothing stolen (they'd purposefully left nothing on them to steal), and three angry debt collectors wandering through the woods looking for an assailant that didn't actually exist. They'd have to quickly run to the tavern, collect what little they had and move on to find the rest of their group. Hylas had purposefully let them go on ahead so they could deal with this... little problem.
It was only as they turned to scurry back the way they came that they noticed something off, a figure not far from them with a large snake at their heels, mostly hidden behind a tree. They froze, looking between the man, and then the snake, and then the man again. He was as gobsmacked as they were, they had not been expecting company at all (and clearly they had not anticipating a resurrection).
"Uhh," Hylas said, and for all their quick thinking they couldn't come up with a good explanation for this. "I was avoiding someone. Thought-- um. Being dead was a good way to go. It's a kind of illusion? I apologise if I frightened you."
We’re all hysterical & going nowhere together.
C’mon rapture. Let’s go bedazzling.
Nothing gets futured without its own spitshine
& I’m already not not not not not not miraculous.