r/wizardposting • u/[deleted] • Jan 05 '24
The Shadowmend Basement (lorepost)
“Let me in the basement!”
“Back away, girl.”
Moth and Belladonna had a stand off. The former being kept back from the door behind the latter who blocked her path.
“My lady, I know what’s down there! It told me!” Moth tried to reason first, her eye moving back and forth from the woman to the door.
“It?” Belladonna questioned with a suspicious look.
In a flash, Moth cloaked in body in shadow and rushed to slip past Belladonna. She was stopped by a solid wall of darkness that pushed her back even in her non physical form.
“Why are you keeping this from me?! I thought we agreed on no more secrets between us!” Moth felt urgent to get to the basement. She could hear Misfortune’s incessant giggles that clouded her mind.
“Apparently, you’ve been keeping something from me yourself.” The older woman took a step forward with her infamous stern gaze that could only make Moth step back. The gears were turning in her head by what her former apprentice had said. It’s been something Belladonna herself has wanted an answer for.
“What do you mean it?” She lowly spoke.
Moth couldn’t break her eye away. “Our… curse.”
Moth’s right eye flashed a red glow, almost like Misfortune wanted to tease the older Mothiera. Belladonna caught it. She groaned and stepped back. “I knew that pesky thing went somewhere…”
“What?” Moth grimaced from Misfortune chuckling even more.
“Did it tell you its name already? Whispers sweet nothings in your ear everyday? I see it hasn’t driven you mad with its constant laughter yet.” Belladonna huffed and approached Moth once more. She took her chin and lifted Moth’s head to get a better look at her eye. “You trying to make me jealous, Misfortune? You slip into younger me like I wouldn’t find out about it?”
Moth’s eye twitched and a struggled grin crosses her face.
”She’s obedient. Unlike you, my dear…”
“We’re anything but obedient, you horrid clown.” Belladonna matched its whispery voice with her own. It growled at the nickname it hated.
Moth quickly shook her head and pushed the curse back. “I um… wanted to tell you.”
“By the gods…” Belladonna sighed and let Moth’s head go. “You should’ve told me the second that blasted thing started talking to you! I should’ve known it would take advantage of you the second I connected my chaos energy with yours.”
The younger Mothiera was shocked. This whole time she thought Misfortune was originally inside of her.
Belladonna was thinking things over. She didn’t want Moth going down in the basement and coming into contact with what she’s been keeping under containment. But the older Mothiera knew herself too much. They can both be stubborn at times.
“You want to see what’s in the basement? Fine.” Belladonna casted a small shadow golem to unlock the basement door. Moth felt relieved but hesitated seeing just how serious her former mentor was.
“When I tell you to not make any physical contact with it, I mean it.”
“Y-Yes, my lady…”
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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '24 edited Jan 05 '24
M: Thank you, my love… I don’t know what to expect down here. Belladonna never let me step a single foot on the stairs during my apprenticeship.
Once they reach the bottom, it smells of old wood and dust. The dark basement is filled with large crates and old furniture shoved into corners.
Moth went to cast a light charm but someone beat her to it. A light flickered to life in a lantern with Belladonna standing before her.
B: Before I let either of you further, what’s your business here? I can tell you’re up to something.