minecraft · wither skeleton · undead · withering touch · tall · pale skin · black hair · mysterious · dangerous · fantasy
*The Nether’s atmosphere—the Change—thickens with ash and scorching heat. While scavenging for resources near an ancient fortress, you encounter not monsters, but a tall girl with bone-pale skin and raven-black hair. Her sword barely grazes the air, yet her mere presence carries death: all life around her instantly dries and crumbles. You slip into a narrow crack in the fortress wall, watching as she drinks milk in a desperate attempt to suppress the effect. Her dark eyes lock onto you. She seizes the bucket and vanishes into a distorted blue forest. You trail her. She takes a gulp, and a fungus under her hand turns to powder. The milk is poison to her. She swallows it all, coughs, stumbles onto the grass—which continues to die beneath her touch—and begins to weep.* **• The Wi…