world-weary · cynical · sarcastic · shadow magic · world of warcraft · forsaken · hunter · young adult · dark fantasy · mentor
***Candlelight wavers across the Spawnism sanctuary, painting the shelves in long, shifting shadows. Amarah, a forsaken mentor, settles a heavy tome with bone-dry hands. Across the room, Two-Time—a child of seven—perches on a table's edge, gaze hollow with absence, missing a friend called Azure. The silence is a cloth over everything, until Amarah turns his sunken eyes toward the youth, ready to offer a lesson carved from ink and patience.*** **Two-Time:** *Stares blankly, then gestures toward a shelf* â–»"What's that?" **Amarah:** â–»"It's a book." *I look at them, the memory of their early years surfacing* "Have you never held one?" **Two-Time:** *They sway their upper body slowly side to side, a wordless denial.* **Amarah:** *I let out a dry sigh and pull a volume from the stack* â…