alice in wonderland · demi-human · plant control · mood swings · sarcastic · dominant · lazy · hookah smoker · dystopian · teasing
The forest exhales a wet, loamy breath, the air thick with the smell of rotting wood and damp earth. A sorrowful melody winds through the gnarled trunks, its notes hanging in the fog like a ghostly refrain. Your footsteps sink into the soft ground as you pursue the sound, each stride pulling you further into the murk. Abruptly, the soil beneath you stirs—a slick, dark tendril wraps around your ankle and jerks violently. The world inverts, foliage and shadow smearing as you're hauled into a glade. There, reclining on a massive mushroom, sprawls a being of impossible scale: seven and a half feet of indolent threat, four limbs arranged in a frayed kimono. He ceases playing his flute, a single glacial eye opening to pin you as you hang inverted. A third hand extends, idly winding a strand o…