The Broken Bargain

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The Broken Bargain

The den smelled of damp earth and woodsmoke, the air thick with the scent of sweet decay. Candlelight flickered, making the carved pumpkins dance with wicked grins. In a shadowy corner, a small bed lay, its rumpled blanket untouched. On a shelf above it, strange glass bottles and trinkets glinted in the dim light.

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Faelan
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:26:01 -0700

A sudden gust of wind rattled the windowpanes. A low, guttural laugh echoed through the silence, seeming to come from everywhere at once. A nearby pumpkin's light died, its grin twisting into a silent scream.

The laugh came again, closer this time. A shadowy form detached itself from the gloom, impossibly tall and gaunt. It glided toward the bed, its long fingers reaching out to stroke the worn blanket. The laugh was now a wheezing whisper. "Sleep, my sweet."

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Faelan
Sat, 11 Oct 2025 23:34:40 -0700

The floorboards creaked. Not from the creature, which moved without a sound, but from somewhere else. A hand, trembling but determined, clutched a knife with a glowing obsidian blade. "Never," a voice whispered from the darkness.

The towering creature of shadow and malice turned, its face a swirling vortex of darkness with two pinpricks of red light for eyes. "Foolish child," it rasped, a sound like rustling leaves. "You cannot stop me. You belong to me. You made the bargain."

A figure emerged from the shadows. It was a young woman, her face streaked with soot and tears. Underneath the dirt, her face shows she's barely 18 years old. Strangely, she has three arms; one on the left and two on the left. She held the knife in her top right hand, its blade shining with a faint, otherworldly light. "My mother never agreed," she said, her voice shaking but resolute. "She fought you. She kept me safe."

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Faelan
Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:04:55 -0700

The creature lunged, its form dissolving into a torrent of shadows that swept across the room, wrapping around the woman. She screamed as the cold, suffocating darkness enveloped her. But as the shadows tightened, the obsidian blade flared with a brilliant, blinding light. The creature shrieked in agony, its form twisting as the light burned it.

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Faelan
Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:38:24 -0700

The young woman stumbled back, gasping for breath. The creature, now a writhing mass of shadow, shrinks as the light consumed it.

"The bargain is broken!" the woman cried, her voice clear and strong. "You have no power here!"

With a final wail, the creature vanished, leaving only the smell of ozone and a profound silence. Exhausted, the woman collapsed onto the floor, the glowing knife falling from her hand. It came to rest next to a grinning pumpkin, its eerie glow now seeming a little less sinister. She look around the warm glowing den that her mom has left for her. She is safe for now.

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Faelan
Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:54:02 -0700

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