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isions of a horrific future. <a href="https://readmedium.com/a-question-of-loyalty-8df435b88a96">Cruelty</a>, <a href="https://readmedium.com/bound-by-blood-cb4c5f4101a4">torture</a>, <a href="https://readmedium.com/menial-labour-for-the-blood-mage-c931e05f9fff">servitude</a></p><p id="dfff">Dara is frowning deeply. “Maybe I could try with those Apocynaceae flowers,” she mutters.</p><p id="cbb2">“Don’t risk it,” sneers Lorenzo.</p><p id="a5c1">“I gotta save my family,” you croak. “I can’t serve you for a month.”</p><p id="f667">“Well, that’s the price.”</p><p id="340d">You glance once more at the distant cabin. Its lights are homely and welcoming, but you know that without healing, you won’t last long…</p><h2 id="65fd">What do you do?</h2><ol><li><a href="https://readmedium.com/blood-magic-at-work-d297219a7329">Let Lorenzo help you (click here)</a>.</li><li><a href="https://readmedium.com/improvised-potion-making-e79ec4c9dda">Plead for Dara to try instead (click here)</a>.</li><li><a href="https://readmedium.com/crawling-to-the-cabin-acdcd518b62b">Crawl to the cabin (click here)</a>.</li></ol><blockquote id="fb4c"><p>This is a collabora

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tive story. Please feel free to join in and add a chapter, furthering the story in any way you wish.</p></blockquote><blockquote id="a640"><p>I was really slow to connect ‘<a href="https://readmedium.com/sorcerous-companions-e9db5eff88">Sorcerous Companions</a>’ with the chapters by <a href="undefined">Mojave Green</a>, but got there in the end!</p></blockquote><blockquote id="56e2"><p>Dara’s response reminds me of this:</p></blockquote> <figure id="e65b"> <div> <div> <img class="ratio" src="http://placehold.it/16x9"> <iframe class="" src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fgiphy.com%2Fembed%2F3ofSBfxkp3fPTgANB6%2Ftwitter%2Fiframe&amp;display_name=Giphy&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2F3ofSBfxkp3fPTgANB6%2Fgiphy.gif&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2F3ofSBfxkp3fPTgANB6%2Fgiphy.gif&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=giphy" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="186" width="435"> </div> </div> </figure></iframe></div></div></figure></article></body>

Drabble STORY ARC #2: Seek and Avenge

Fear, Doubt and Illusion

A chapter of a ‘choose your own’ story — drabble edition.

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This is a ‘choose your own’ fiction story, “drabble edition”. The whole thing begins with ‘The Burned Village’. If you want to head back to the previous chapter, visit ‘Sorcerous Companions’ by JF Danskin. And find out how to contribute to the ongoing story here.

“I’ll heal this one,” says Lorenzo, then cackles. “Delighted. Just a small price to pay: one month in my service.”

“What?!” cries Dara.

As the blood mage laughs again, you see visions of a horrific future. Cruelty, torture, servitude

Dara is frowning deeply. “Maybe I could try with those Apocynaceae flowers,” she mutters.

“Don’t risk it,” sneers Lorenzo.

“I gotta save my family,” you croak. “I can’t serve you for a month.”

“Well, that’s the price.”

You glance once more at the distant cabin. Its lights are homely and welcoming, but you know that without healing, you won’t last long…

What do you do?

  1. Let Lorenzo help you (click here).
  2. Plead for Dara to try instead (click here).
  3. Crawl to the cabin (click here).

This is a collaborative story. Please feel free to join in and add a chapter, furthering the story in any way you wish.

I was really slow to connect ‘Sorcerous Companions’ with the chapters by Mojave Green, but got there in the end!

Dara’s response reminds me of this:

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