"Are you picking a fight
with me, wolf?"
the figure in the full hood,
Exterminator, grumbled, voice stoic.
He clutched his shoulder,
wincing from
the phantom pain
in the ripped, red and glaring gash.It wasn't real,
he had to remind himself,
it'll disappear when I wake up.
"I'm rather in a foul mood,"
the wolf,
Dream-Eater, growled.
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Exterminator seethed,
angered, "you're the only
madman willing to fight,"he muttered spitefully,
"are you not scared
of the pain?"
"Pain?"
Dream-Eater could've laughed,
but he merely scoffed,
"you do not understand.
I don't do this for pleasure--
I do this out of hunger!"The wolfman was riled,
but it could not make
another attack before
his opponent did.Exterminator held off
his attack,
not a man of battles
to begin with.
But why-- hunger?
"Hunger?"
"I'm starved,"
Dream-Eater sounded
almost sorrowful,
"because of this
accursed Flavour Text,
human food no longer fills me.
I can only hunger, in pain,
until I eat!"
Exterminator's fists
gripped almost instinctively,
as if the situation hit home...
and it hurt.
"Dream-Eater,"
he was sympathetic,
"I suppose you
represent your name."
"Exterminator,"
the wolf growled,
"if I defeat you--
I may be released
from this agony."
Now, Exterminator stopped.
"Why do you say so?"
Why was Dream-Eater
pulled forward by another desire--
to defeat another player?
Was it not just to fill his hunger?
"So you have not heard?"
Dream-Eater grinned,"no wonder you
aren't fueled to battle
against this injustice."
Exterminator didn't like
this situation.Dream-Eater was a smug,
taunting character,
and the sly wolf look wasn't helping.What hadn't he heard?
"If I become the winner
of this game, I'll be free!"
Dream-Eater declared,
loud and proud,"from this starvation,
from this endless hunting!I'll be liberated!"
Free.
Free?
Exterminator froze in place,
taken aback.
Freedom,
that was the reward for victory?
Such a simple thing?
No-- they were pulled into this,
and now the only way out
was to play with it?
Like hell he was going to play
right into the culprit's hands!
"Who told you that?"
Exterminator scowled, unbelieving,
"you believed them?Are you an idiot?"
Dream-Eater gritted
an annoyed grind of teeth,standing upright
in an unfazed facade."You may believe
whatever you wish,"
he frowned,
"these were the words
of a player I met in
the wilderness."In the wilderness.
Somewhere,
in an unknown location.
"The Game Master."
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