portal fantasy – Jordyn Saelor

wreck yours instead

I activated the rune ring with a tap of my heel but it did nothing. So I had to smear the whole thing over and start

air fed

I tore at my sleeve with my teeth and got some gray thread to unravel and ripped it off the garment, then I got the whole string wet and stuck it on the wall

fled

I waited a good two breaths in the corridor for Mfrlfip to emerge after me just to see if it would try to stop me, but it didn’t appear so I

What God Said

Percy was God. Whoever Percy was. The salamanders and trees were his forces who braved the Dust Seas to either kill

bed

I came to in a bed of rough feathers under an orange sky–dark orange, basically brown, streaked with red, because dust clouded the air.

Percy

Passionate Percy, have mercy on this mortal, for terror and evil have they known.

arm of mercy

I don’t know what they called the building in the middle of nowhere so I’ll just describe it. In the falling twilight, the walls looked like storm clouds squished into huge blocks and stacked

stronghold

In the story books I read at home, the captured maiden was always blindfolded or asleep and never knew where her captors took her until

embrace

They wrapped me in branches, bark as rough as stale bread, and carried me kicking and screaming, still invisible

stew

The first salamander I accidentally stepped on squelched and blood dribbled out and I hurried on. The second I stepped on