Hermitcraft Nonsense

Vexations

Something fun and silly to lighten the mood because there's way too many sad things going on XD

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It felt awakened as the evoker called upon his magic and his creatures of servitude. It blinked as the world formed around it. There was the enemy- a pearly white creature make of hard lines (no flesh to bite into) and armed with a bow. It shivered- arrows were scary to dodge.

The evoker grunted a command, and fury coursed through its blue-blooded veins. It, along with the few other vexes that were summoned, screeched, their blood vessels turning red as magicked anger caused them to draw their swords and attack the enemy.

The enemy drew an arrow back and shot. It zoomed forward and swung its mighty sword-

And then the anger went away. It halted in its flight, confused. Normally the anger didn't go away until all enemies were eliminated, but this one was still here. Two of the other vexes were still red and dancing around the white enemy- it couldn't shoot its arrows because they were too fast and too close. They took it out with their swords.

It slowly spun in the air, looking for the evoker for an explanation. Where it last remembered him standing was a puff of smoke.

It let off a sad whistle. Another vex replied, also sounding confused. It had also dropped out of aggression like it had, but it had seen what had happened- the arrow had hit their evoker and he fell on his side and disappeared.

The two aggressive vexes hovered, still red. Then they disappeared like they had been unsummoned.

Why hadn't it and this other vex been unsummoned as well? Why had they changed when their evoker disappeared?

The other vex hummed thoughtfully. It sounded smart, clever. It said their evoker had disappeared like how enemies do when the vexes kill them.

That scared it. Our evoker is dead? What do we do then? Where did the other vexes go?

The other vex said it didn't know. They were on their own, no evoker, no other vexes. It was just... them. This other vex it didn't know but seemed smart.

Two against the world.

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The two vexes had wandered the roofed forest around their mansion for a couple days now. The illagers had asked where the evoker was; the vexes eventually conveyed they didn't know. Then they were left alone- vexes were servants to the evoker, worthless on their own.

So basically, it was like a vacation for them! No commands, no anger, no chance of death! It was great!

"Hey! Come look at this!" The other vex called him. He darted to the sound of the other vex'z voice.

"Where are you?"

"Here! By the bright area."

"I thought we said we weren't going to go near there?" He asked as he weaved through the treetops, looking for his companion. The bright area was scary- they couldn't see past it because it was so bright and there were rumors that they would catch fire because of the light if they went into it.

The other vex hissed again and he finally saw him waved him over. He joined him at one of the branches closest to the light area, but still in the cool shadows.

"What are you doing?"

"Look at the bright area."

"It's blinding!"

"Not if you look at it long enough. The light goes away and doesn't hurt to look at. I can see past it. It's... I can't explain it."

He hesitated. The other vex was indeed looking right past the leaves into the bright area. But did he trust this other vex that he had only really known for a few days to brave this?