Another Choice
When the last of them comes to the fourth path the mare has nothing else to say. She only watches them with her heavy eyes made of moon-stone and moonlight. At her side those mighty wings of nightshade bloom and flutter. Each beat of her wings comes faster than the last, until this entire part of the maze feels like a storm.
Petals streak like bullets around them and the air is thick with perfume, pollen and poison. At her back a small tornado blooms, a funnel of flower and ivy and stems. It even groans like a storm should and each moan makes the hedges rattle like old, dying bones. Closer and closer the tornado of flowers comes and the entire path leans towards the center of it.
Just as the first wave of flowers touches the strange mare she explodes into petals and light. She's a planet of silver and wild flowers. The winds settle and where she once stood there are two holes in the maze where there was nothing but solid leaf before.
The first hole glimmers strangely. It looks almost like glass, but surely the light dancing across the pathway like a rainbow suggests diamonds instead of plain glass. At first it looks like that pathway leads to the right. Another look makes it seems that straight is the only way to go. The third glance makes it seems like that path leads to the left. Maybe it's a path of mirrors and illusion, maybe it's nothing more than a trick of the light to hide another end.
The only way to find out is to try it---
The second crevice in the wall smells sweet, too sweet. Teeth could ache for the sweetness of his path. Pink and finely spun sugar floats from the opening. It drifts in what's left of the breeze like a million
dandelions seas. The bits of candy-floss seem almost alive. A closer look finds them dancing against the breeze and it's easy to wonder if they bits of cotton candy or if they are small insects who might bite.
Further down the second path the pink floss gross thicker and each breath tastes sweet but bitter with fear. Will there be any air left at all or only sugar?
@Shrike @Caine @Toulouse
RULES
This part of the maze will break off into two choices. The first is a hall of mirrors. The second path is full of cotton candy. Please pick one and post it at the end of your reply. Replies are due by 12/28
For this path I've send each participant 20 signos since it's still continuing.
Petals streak like bullets around them and the air is thick with perfume, pollen and poison. At her back a small tornado blooms, a funnel of flower and ivy and stems. It even groans like a storm should and each moan makes the hedges rattle like old, dying bones. Closer and closer the tornado of flowers comes and the entire path leans towards the center of it.
Just as the first wave of flowers touches the strange mare she explodes into petals and light. She's a planet of silver and wild flowers. The winds settle and where she once stood there are two holes in the maze where there was nothing but solid leaf before.
The first hole glimmers strangely. It looks almost like glass, but surely the light dancing across the pathway like a rainbow suggests diamonds instead of plain glass. At first it looks like that pathway leads to the right. Another look makes it seems that straight is the only way to go. The third glance makes it seems like that path leads to the left. Maybe it's a path of mirrors and illusion, maybe it's nothing more than a trick of the light to hide another end.
The only way to find out is to try it---
The second crevice in the wall smells sweet, too sweet. Teeth could ache for the sweetness of his path. Pink and finely spun sugar floats from the opening. It drifts in what's left of the breeze like a million
dandelions seas. The bits of candy-floss seem almost alive. A closer look finds them dancing against the breeze and it's easy to wonder if they bits of cotton candy or if they are small insects who might bite.
Further down the second path the pink floss gross thicker and each breath tastes sweet but bitter with fear. Will there be any air left at all or only sugar?
@Shrike @Caine @Toulouse
This part of the maze will break off into two choices. The first is a hall of mirrors. The second path is full of cotton candy. Please pick one and post it at the end of your reply. Replies are due by 12/28
For this path I've send each participant 20 signos since it's still continuing.
