The Haunted Traveler May 2017 Edition

throughout my spirit.
“From Earth thou hath been born, by eyes of earth
thou shall see, and on earth thou will tread. I bade thee
to evacuate from me. Thou are not my child, but the
offspring of a wondrous, supremely talented sorcerer.
It is he who hath given thee life, through the ingrained
portals of magical transference that connect the netherworld
and this place. I was merely an incubator, a
vessel through which thou were transported from a
bog of discarded, worthless souls without memories. I
am mother to none, certainly no invalid specter.”
The conclusion of the derisive speech, brought upon
the blackened atmosphere a tinge of purplish aura that
swirled about the corpse-mother and harbored child.
A Tyrian tumult spun in atmospheric concord with the
ebon haze, creating a wild, massive tornado of diabolical
composition. My body began to rise from the wet
soil, and hover amidst the stygian mist like a blown
petal upon a stirring sea. Rain, wholly abated by the
dire fog, hung suspended above us.
A crystalline cover that alone would have been mesmerizing,
had the terrible display before me not been
sufficiently vexing. By this point, the demon-for there
could be no other nature of this creature—was entirely
obscured by the abhorrent miasma. Dangling without
support as if floating on some nimbus of hell, I heard
a rapturous exhalation from the center of the ever-increasing
storm. It was a boisterous laugh of such inherent
depravity, that the trees encircling the perimeter
seemed to recoil by some natural aversion to the stark
morbidity of that sound.
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