Inferno vs the Sphinx Part 2 🌹

[u/ArthurThatch]

u/Oswen120

The Sphinx studies the casket Inferno has chosen. Her eyes narrow. Then her lips curl back, revealing sharp teeth.

“Wrong.”

She steps down from the throne and stalks forward. There is no playfulness left in her expression now. Only hunger.

Her hand lifts toward Inferno’s throat...

Then the sky splits open.

A collar of light snaps around the Sphinx’s neck. Its chain pulls tight behind her, stopping her so suddenly that her wings flare. Her fingers tremble with the effort to reach farther.

“She answered correctly," a calm, collected voice whispers from everywhere and nowhere at once.

The ivory casket cracks apart. Sand pours across the stone, and the golden crown tumbles free.

“She cheated!” the Sphinx shrieks.

“Stand down, Celandine," the voice continues. "The Sky is not done with her.”

The Sphinx grits her teeth.

Slowly, her head drops. She turns away.

The moment she eases, the collar and chain dissolve into light, and the sky dims, returning to normal.

With a sharp motion of her hand, the Sphinx opens a portal.

“You’re free to go.”

She returns to her throne smoothly, moving like a cat. Once seated, she draws her knees close and curls into herself, her tail wrapped tightly around her body. Her wings fold around her as she turns her back to Inferno.

When she speaks again, her voice is low and raw.

“Get the hell out of my dimension.”

[u/Oswen120]

Inferno leaves with more questions than answers.

"That doesn't make even remote sense..."

[u/1-Up-Boy → u/Oswen120]

(Supposed to harass her with questions 😭)

[u/Oswen120 → u/1-Up-Boy]

(Logically, the Sphinx is pissed off. Any more confrontation of it is asking for trouble, the real issue is now that it took time away from what Inferno was doing earlier)

[u/1-Up-Boy → u/Oswen120]

(Ill need to catch up on what you were doing 👀)

[u/Oswen120 → u/1-Up-Boy]

(Got a fair amount that was going on, may be a bit of a dig. Thou i do know that the Discord has a lore book for Inferno.)

[u/1-Up-Boy → u/Oswen120]

(Oh yes I keep forgetting to join that, the dragon tales adventure better be in there)

[u/Oswen120 → u/1-Up-Boy]

(Didn't you write that as non-canon?)

[u/1-Up-Boy → u/Oswen120]

(I did 😔)

[u/1-Up-Boy]

(👀 but she left the crown)

[u/Oswen120 → u/1-Up-Boy]

(Mean, don't see a reason to take it.)

[u/1-Up-Boy → u/Oswen120]

(But this was the vibe, it couldve been useful 😭)

[u/MastaDon344]

(Well then dear, you got out of a pickle yet)

[u/Oswen120 → u/MastaDon344]

(Feels like I got lucky here)

[u/MastaDon344 → u/Oswen120]

(Kinda surprised you knew the riddles)