A Most Disturbing Trend
" I bet you that smells really, really bad." Moria said. She stopped and looked out at the scene of burning bodies.
Her face became long an sullen as memories of her mother being burned alive at the stake by the town's folk came rushing to her mind. She remembered a mob that had taken her mother from their secluded cottage in the woods, bound her in chains and marched her into town. Being a young girl of only 13 winters old, there was nothing Moria could do but follow helplessly and watch.
When they lit the fires, all Moria could do was run, sob and cry. All she could remember was her mother's crys in protest and screams for help. Sobbing, scared and confused, Moria had tried to go back and save her, but what could she do against the town's folk. She was powerless. She continued to run after she heard her dying screams. She remembered hearing her shout out words that were dripping with hate and malice, something she had never heard from her mother before.
Moria ran and she ran as far as she could. She didn't even notice that she had run into a thick bank of fog.
When it had dissipated she was completely lost, alone and afraid. She wandered for days, her young mind wounded and wandering from the horrific ordeal she had winessed. She had watched the whole town murder her mother by fire. Why Moria wasn't sure. She was the town healer and herbalist, and they burned her. She wish she could learn a spell that would burn them all to a crisp and she would save her mother. But it was too late. She vowed to one day learn a spell that would do just that and maybe even a spell where she could speak with her mother again. Or maybe she should just end it all....
Thats when Moria started to be visited in her dreams by a massive onyx skinned being who whispered ancient and forbidden secrets to her that both scared her and exhilarated her. The being promoted hate, death, and revenge, claiming that in order to get her mother back she must kill every person in that town, and he would show her how.
Confused and torn, Moria struggled with her nightmare and when she decided the only way to stop them was to do what he said. So she traveled back to town to either carry out her act of vengeance or die trying. But to both her relief and dismay the town was no where to be found and she was completely lost. She had made acquaintances with the local apothecary, who's name she never did learn, and she tried to delve from him where it was exactly and how should could get back to the Morningwood, the town. But he claimed to have nevre heard of such a place which caused Moria to become disgruntled and she stormed off.
She had returned a few days later, but to find this. A murder scene. Being as he was his only friend in this strange place, Moria felt an obligation to find out what happened to him at least.
The young girl stopped and stared out at the pile of burning bodies, unmoving and deep in thought.
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