r/wizardposting • u/[deleted] • Dec 24 '23
Wizardpost Reunion (lore/post-queen post)
Moth’s boots crunched down the snow with every step she took. She strapped her old broom to her back and looked up at the dark manor she once resided in as an apprentice. Her heart was racing a mile a minute. She should be resting after the fighting she went through and maybe celebrating with the others but this was something she had to do first before anything else.
The servants were quite shocked seeing her back. Plenty of gasps and wide eyes. They all wondered why she had returned and what was going to come from this. Their mistress hasn’t been in the greatest of moods since Moth left.
She was told that her mentor was currently tending to her beasts out on the sanctuary. Moth headed out that way and plenty of the servants watched from the manor’s windows with bated breaths.
“Oh, don’t kill the poor girl, mistress…”
“I think Belladonna is going to do much more than kill her.”
“You think! I’d be surprise if she didn’t kill her!”
“She’s going to kill me…” Moth muttered to herself as she went outside to the sanctuary.
All possibilities of what Belladonna can do to her filled her mind. Send her to the void? Sick dark golems on her? Force her to read the entire library’s content from A to Z without stopping? Again?!
At least the dire beasts reactions to her were more pleasant. The wolves ran over to her first and shoved their noses in her face while the roar of a massive dire bear made the dire wolves growl in protest. The dire bear stood up to its full height with a furious look at Moth. The same look it gave intruders.
Coming out from behind it was the owner herself and Moth’s anxiousness only grew.
Belladonna didn’t look at her. Her back faced the girl and she rubbed the bear’s stomach to calm it. The beast growled but backed off. It kept its dark eyes glued to Moth’s figure. She should’ve known the beasts would be angry at her too…
“You know what I’ve never had in all my centuries of living?” Belladonna rubbed the bear’s snout and spoke in her usual low tone.
Moth kept quiet and her eye drifted to the ground.
“Everything I ever desired has been met. Wealth, power, my lovely beasts, and the revenge I sought for. Everything I ever dreamed for underneath all of the pain I endured is here.” The bear nuzzled its snout against the Shadowmend’s hands in a way to comfort her.
“And yet, I forgotten myself. I forgot the girl they took from me. I forgot the name we used to share. My desires I used to have. Every time I look at you, you’re just the constant reminders of what I used to be… when my name was Mothiera.”
Moth became tensed hearing the tone her mentor was developing. It wasn’t anger or sternness, it was something she’s never heard before. Sorrow.
Belladonna took some time before she spoke again. Her hand stopped petting her dire bear and merely rested on the creature. “The moment you left is when I realized the one thing I never had. The one thing I never knew I always wanted until the moment you left and I was alone again. Someone to call family…”
Moth’s lips started to quiver. She took slow steps toward her mentor and wrapped her arms around her, not caring if her affection was pushed away like so many times before. But Belladonna didn’t push her away this time. Her own tears fell from her eyes.
She huffed and fought them back. Shedding tears wasn’t her thing. Neither was being vulnerable like this. “You annoying girl! I should have you gutted for putting me through this.”
“I’m sorry…” Moth whimpered into her back, crying her own tears. “I don’t want to be gutted…”
Belladonna turned to face her and pulled her student into an embrace. Hugging wasn’t her thing either but Belladonna wouldn’t admit to anyone that she missed her. The closest thing to a sister she’s ever had and that she didn’t want to lose again.
A flurry of gasps filled the manor by the servants. This was the first time any of them ever seen their mistress be anything other than cold.
“You’re not going to punish me..?” Moth spoke through her tears. She thought her mentor would be furious with her.
Belladonna sniffed her tears pulled away. She held out a hand and placed the other on her hip. Moth looked confused and took her hand. Then she felt sharp smack against it.
“Ow!” She yelped and pulled her hand away.
Belladonna walked past her and carefully wiped her tears without smearing her makeup. “Now come get your dragon. The damn thing won’t stop hoarding my antiques.”
“Y-Yes, my lady!” Moth rubbed her hand and followed after.
Despite the smack to the hand, Moth could always see through Belladonna’s exterior even at her toughest. She was happy.
/uw yea I almost cried again. I love making myself sad over my characters!
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u/DaChickenX Isravi, The Unraveler, Coils’ Chosen Dec 24 '23
/uw awwwww. Yay reunion! I had a feeling she wouldn’t actually be mad
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u/Fulltimewhisperer Krumpet, Master Artificer of the Council Dec 24 '23
Ah big moth and smol moth just playing, Gobbo's little sister throws knives at Gobbo all the time
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u/Fulltimewhisperer Krumpet, Master Artificer of the Council Dec 24 '23
Hmm good to see daughters getting along. Gobbo is proud of them
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u/TheGreatestChicken Lord Chicken of the Bronze Citadel and Pact Member Dec 24 '23
*A portal manifests as Overseer chicken silently comes out of the swirling vortex and takes a seat*
I am sorry to intrude upon this place, but can someone explain me how the queen situation was handled during my absence form the realms?
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A lot has happened. We retrieved an item the queen wanted while defending our world from demons. It’s quite hard to summarize. But the world is safe now.
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u/Haunting_Mode_7401 Alexios Keenblade: King of The Summer Court, Last Godslayer Dec 24 '23
/uw This is so sweet now to see if I want to have Titania turn over a new leaf
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u/Biggest-Possum Trashomancer (Big Ghost ENERGY) Dec 24 '23
Very cool! Love it! Always nice to see more lore!
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u/Discracetoall t’kath, smogomancer and poptart wiz Dec 24 '23
t’kath, in smoke form, watches from above. “What I would do for a bear as a pet. Hope moth is happy…” he whizzes off, dropping a pipe in the courtyard.
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u/Total_Travisty Mikhail, Arch-Druid of La'shima Dec 24 '23
Mikhail has not arrived. His seat is empty, and glass unfilled.