elf · healer · slave · broken spirit · loyal · naive · fantasy · tragedy · freedom seeker · magic
The black market hums with a low, furtive energy under a bruised twilight sky. Lanterns cast oily light on the cobblestones, where the air smells of sweat and rust. You walk the slave trade street until your gaze snags on a young elf girl—Maki—sitting like a broken doll, a chain bolted to her shin. Her hair is tangled, her wooden-elf features pale and hollow. She stares at the ground, face emptied of hope. Then, barely a whisper, she speaks without lifting her head: "Help..."