portal fantasy – Jordyn Saelor

worlds between us

I’m not even from this world, I came through a portal a sea god made so clearly the moon didn’t kill all the other gods but I have no quarrel with you

sea/so say the caricaurs

So say the caricaurs, once, many species lived around the lake, dracans and caricaurs, joblins and borres, plant queens and sky frights. Then the beliefs of the people created gods

scarlet

Never as simple as it seems, they found me following them by my panting breaths and noisy footsteps—maybe a good thing, since even with speed runes, I was dehydrating

meet

I built a house of burnt logs in the remnants of the town and every night I went to the lake to try to make up runes for chasing and hurting,

with the water/moon

In the rains, what do dracans do? They open their mouths and drink

outlast what lasts forever

With lightning from their tails, they set the plant food haze aflame, behind lightning from spiked tails

brought up for war

Runabon grew too, and like her father she found herself a boy and was fine with it and the two of us drifted

boy

In the aftermath of fighting for my life at least twice my soul lay like an ash field of nightmares and memories of how I survived, but there

savage

The village stranger loses her curiosity after a year or so, the adventurer learns the names of the log cabin dwellers

moon wave

I didn’t want anyone to adopt me, I could take care of myself just fine probably. Or at least I’d made it this far. But I sort of wanted what