She was forever bound in a world of stone.
Walls of silver cobblestone encompassed the young girl shivering on the ground, shackled by many luminous white chains, garbed in a mere tunic made out of coarse cloth and shredded in places. Her porcelain skin was marred by cobalt and violet and streaks of scarlet. Her pale curls tumbled over her tiny frame, dragging in the dirt. Quivering hard, transparent water dropped from her innocent lavender eyes.
"N...No," she whispered, seemingly to herself. "Why would they put me here? Th...they told me they would take care of me..."
Hunched up in a ball, the girl whimpered to the empty space, "You said you would take care of me...But you didn't..." A sob tore through the vapid air. "You trapped me here! You locked me up forever!"
Taking a steadying breath, the girl looked up, unnervingly calmed so instantly. As if speaking to someone right in front of her, she hissed, "You curse me to imprisonment, so I curse you for eternity. You will be locked in your own nightmares forevermore, until I am released from my prison. I curse you..."
With a sudden spasm, the girl arched her back as if in a surmountable amount of pain, as if she had been stabbed by a dagger made of ice. "I curse you forevermore!" she screamed. "The seven keys will unlock me, and the seven keys will release you! Forever!"
With one last cry, the girl collapsed to the floor.
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FantasyAdalira, the tavern wench, loves the legend of the Seven Keys. The Keys that would unlock the cursed king of Areid and the Keys that would release the witch Maeve from her imprisonment. But when those legends show themselves in a way all too real, A...
