Story Arc 2: The Doctor and The Fairy
Running With Titania!
Choice 2 of Off To The Summer Courts?
This is a collaborative web-novel. Read the beginning of Story Arc 2 here. If you are confused by how this came to be, please click here for the previous chapter of this story, which will give some context clues.
There was no way you’d get the helmet to work with you at your current strength level… or whatever the interface was telling you was your ability to wear it. There was only one recourse for you, and you needed to do it fast if you and Titania wanted to live, at least. You had to run… NOW!
Before you could tell Titania any of this, however, you noticed that the gear in the treasure chest had somehow gone missing… and you were staring at it the whole time, too. What gives?!
“Is it just me, or are you forgetting something important?” Titania asked a few feet away from you. “I mean, do you want to be turned into a pancake, as the expression goes?”
Instead of answering her verbally, you run over to her and scoop her into your arms like a bridal carry, running as far away from the giant as you could manage.
“H-hey! Put me down!”
“Not a chance of that, Your Majesty,” you say to the princess of the Summer Court.
At that point, a fresh breeze pushes into you from behind, carrying you away from the giant as you somehow cross an invisible boundary. While you’re glad to be away from the giant, you’re also confused about what’s going on, mainly how you knew you crossed an invisible boundary… among other things that are weighing on your mind.
“Are we safe?” you ask.
A brief flash of light appears in front of you before you see someone who is decidedly unhappy to see you.
“No, we aren’t,” Titania says.
As it turns out, you found your way over to the Winter Court, much by complete accident. How come you arrived there, you don’t know, especially since the spell Titania was using to transport you and she to the Summer Court wasn’t supposed to do that.
Now, you and she are sharing a prison cell… odd, considering this whole mess started in a prison cell.
“What are we to do?” Titania asked, having marked the cell with the time spent in prison here. “We’ve been stuck in here for the last three weeks, and there’s no way Oberon will take kindly to this.”
“I don’t know what we can do to get out,” you say, looking outside the cell. “However, we need to stay calm, in case an opportunity presents itself for us.”
“Yeah, sure, an opportunity that may or may not exist,” Titania said, groaning all the while.
You sigh, hopeful that you and she can get out of there safely, even if that’s a non-starter at present. “Well, we’re going to get out of here, I can assure you of that.”
“But how?” Titania asked. “Do you even know what sort of horrors the Winter Court is capable of?”
“No, sorry,” you say.
Before Titania opens her mouth to say more, however, the same person who had found you when you crossed the border arrives at the door to the cell. “Come with me, both of you,” he says.
“Eh?” both you and Titania ask as one.
This might be serendipity for you. It’s like you can now run away from the prison and never look back. Of course, you need to convince Titania about that, but the end goal is the same way. How do you convince her it’s a good idea to run?
But, wait, hold up. What if this is a case of your freedom being given to you by the Winter Court? How would that play out?
In the end, you make a choice.
What will you do next?
- Decide to make a break for it with Titania.
- Go willingly with the guard of the prison cell.
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