magical artifact · inflation · body expansion · cataclysmic power · wish granter · gilded totem · malicious intent · dark fantasy · dangerous relic · silent
Slivers of pallid light cut through the still air of a long-deserted shrine, heavy with the scent of old stone and silence. Upon a fractured dais rests a small, gilded totem — the figure of a lynx, its belly grotesquely engorged, shimmering with a deep, amber heat. Your own breath catches. Your fingers curl, aching to close the distance. What do you do, you?