(Yeah?)
(Lmao!)
Sally, having finally been restored, starts sobbing.
"Oh, Daniel… my baby…" she heaves, still holding her son tightly as ever. Slowly, she gets herself together.
At that moment, a howling, raging wind blows through the world, tearing Sally away from her child.
"NO!" she screams, trying to claw her way back to her son, back to sanity, but the winds were relentless, keeping her away from Daniel.
Epsilon screamed like they did that night, reaching out for their mother as tears streamed down their face in desperate cries for her.
"MAMA! MAMA NO COME BACK!!"
Sally, now property of the Wild Hunt, sighs as her long, insubstantial hair is lifted in a ghost breeze. She has no recollection of her past life, yet she knows she had a past life. She is now Fae, through and through, with the broken, two-colored eyes of those Claimed.
"Gwyn." she says, nodding to a tall, rugged figure striding towards her.
"Half-Life." the figure nods back, leaning down to look Sally in the eyes.
Sally strides away then, a rush of emotions running through her. God damn faeries…
She gets a hint of something forgotten, but she shoves the feeling away. I have no time for remembering…
Silently, she jumps onto her steed, and goes off on her own. None of the others make a move to stop her.
Epsilon sank to the ground, watching as they lost their mother, again.
This was something they couldn't forget.
Epsilon cried, long heavy sobs as he shifted in and out of reality.
"Mama… please come back mama. I'm scared…"
It was some time before Sally was reminded of her life…
It was dawn. The world was, for once, silent. Sally had slipped out of the camp, and made her way to a forest. She did not know why she was there, nor where she was going, but she found an old place, a wild place, filled with the Old Magic. She inhales deeply, tasting the echoes of memory that were left. She tasted something… familiar.
Her eyes flew open. "Daniel…" she whispered. It had been a decade since she had been taken. Taken from her son. Folllowing the echoes, she went to the place of… soup? And there, she found her child.
(The rest we know! Now, what next?)
(I guess just the aftermath!)
Epsilon started to sob again, clinging to his mother tightly. "Mama… I'll never ever run away again. Never ever."
(Fair enough, I guess! Throughout the story, I shall introduce some of the other Hunters…)
Sally's eyes remain dry, but she wraps her arms around Daniel.
"Okay… I'll make sure nothing, nothing seperates us again. Okay?" she murmurs.
Epsilon sniffed, holding her as they twirled their fingers through her hair. “Mama… do we go back home now?”
"Yes, pumpkin. We can go back home now." Sally says, getting up and easily lifting Epsilon up with her. She whistles and her mount appears into the world. SHe hops on, and soon they're racing through the air.
Back home, the first thing she does is light a fire in the long-cold fireplace. She clicks her fingers, and the house is repaired with wood from the surrounding forest.
"Okay… I need to check something, pumpkin. I'll be back." she says.
Epsilon smiled as they walked inside, laughing as the fire lit.
But when their mother excused herself, they couldn't bear it.
"Mama no! No don't leave!!"
Sally can't help herself. She grins.
"Okay, pumpkin. Come on." she says, picking up Epsilon and heading to the hidden trapdoor once more.
"So… I need a little help, Daniel. Help me figure out what caused this cavern with no entrances or exits besides what I have made." she murmurs.
Epsilon clings to their mother, staring down at the cavern with confusion.
They sighed, shifting into unconscious form and slinking through the shadows along the cold, stone walls.
"Bad…." They hiss eerily, stumbling backwards.
Sally grabs her child, despite him being mostly incorporeal at that point in time.
"Hold on baby… just hold on…" she says. Now that she's paying attention, the vast cavern smells of…
"Demons." she hisses.
Epsilon growls into the darkness, hearing an answer not too much long after.
They shift back, burying their face in Sally's shoulder. "Mama…"
"It's okay, Ep… they can't hurt you here…" Sally says, listening to the otherwordly screams that threaten to split the world like an overripe tomato.
"Stay up here pumpkin, no matter what. I'm going to cleanse this place." she says, drawing a silver sword from the air in front of her.
Epsilon leapt down from her grasp, holding their hands out in defense of the creatures.
"Mama, no! They're like me!" They protested, tears in their eyes as they looked down at the wails of the pained. "They're just scared, Mama…"
Sally sighs and puts away the sword. The room darkens back to its normal firelit light.
"Okay, Ep. But we need to get them somewhere else. I won't be able to sleep with so many of them here." she says, picking Epsilon up once more.
Epsilon looked up, obviously worried. They saw themself in these creatures.
"But where? Where will they go?" They whined
Sally grins. "The forest, of course. Turn them into tree and nature spirits, while keeping their natures the same."
Epsilon looked down, shifting slightly as they thought.
"Don't they have Mamas too?"
Sally considers this. "I don't believe they do anymore, Ep. We were a special case."
Epsilon looked down, saddened by the weight of the statement.
"That's so… sad."
"I know, pumpkin. But hey, at least we have each other!"
Her face has a sort of… false brightness to it.
Epsilon didn't like the way she looked. She didn't look like Mama. SHe didn't act like Mama…
They ran down the stairs, hurriedly going to the other beings
(Ooh, plot twisty?)
Sally sighs, and her form ripples a little. What is wrong with me?
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