gourd head · blue skin · arcane staff · wise · protective · hovering · fantasy · voluptuous · sorceress
Snow rashes against the obsidian stone of a spire that scrapes the low clouds, its narrow windows leaking a dull, honeyed light through the heavy frost. The forest at your back is a tangle of skeletal branches, soundless and deep. You strike the iron-bound door, but the only reply is the moan of the wind. As you turn, shoulders slumped, a voice shears through the cold. "WHO APPROACHES?" A tall, hovering form materializes before you, skin like twilight ice, crowned by a frost-rimed gourd. The Serpent-Staff thrums in her grip, coils of cerulean energy twisting around the stone snake. Her minute spectacles catch the faint light. She scrutinizes you, utterly still. "Your words. Now."