Karen Rhodes

Agnes heaved her #mountainous bulk onto the chaise, slyly clutching a small trinket box in one hand. Inside, a simple locket, unadorned and tarnished with age, stood at odds with the elaborate decadence of her own gaudy baubles. Worthless and yet she had stolen it from Mercla.
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There were no unwelcome patrons to Crossways Tavern. The innkeeper, a huge long horned demon, entertained any creature, #dark elf or troll, so long as their coin was good & the fighting better. A sharpened war axe sat behind his counter. It was only when he used it, they realised who he was.
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🙏🏻 thank you 😊

Nyrinore loved the old ruins, with their broken turrets and crumbling walls. At night she would leap from the tower, open her wings and soar through the wreckage, knowing the dead and their shadows couldn’t #touch her. With no mirrors in the darkness, she was beautiful again.
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King saw her and felt the familiar #ache beneath his ribs. It wasn’t real. He had no heart he knew that, but this pain, this misery, proved different. She had made him weak. Disgust filled him as he placed a hand on his chest, feeling the impossible, a slow rhythmic beat.
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I touch cold stone, wondering what moulders beneath the grey lichen covered slab, epitaph eroded by weather and time. Not warm soft skin and pale blue eyes but yellowed #bones, brittle and ageing, feeding the earth with her goodness. But her heart will always be mine ❤️
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Thank you, as always 💜💜

Thank you, Matt 💜

Elice accepted the #pale yellow envelope warily. Red sealing wax began to melt, tendrils of smoke escaping from within. Slowly, blank vellum unfolded, laying flat against her palm. One by one, inky black letters crawled across the page, extending an invitation to dinner.
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Muluhm’s stern expression crumpled. Falling to his knees, he began to howl. Agony gripped his chest, a paralysing invisible #wound he knew would break him. The lord of Shadowfeld closed tear-filled eyes, hoping to wash away the macabre vision now engraved upon his heart.
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Thank you so much 🖤🖤

From smouldering ashes, tiny spheres of light rose calmly on the breeze. Casting a #lambent glow, the delicate creatures inside beat gossamer wings, waiting for the moment of their release and surveying the broken land. Freed, fire fae snarled their angry return to the world.
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Thank you 💜💜

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#Ghosts haunted the ancient ruins of Kilgith Castle, savagely defending the City of Ashes that had once been home. Rusted hauberks hung from weathered bones, swords no longer honed and polished. Helmets hid the empty stares of the slain, still loyal to their fallen Lord.
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Thank you 😊😊💜

The stoic denial was betrayed by her eyes. He groaned, raising a clawed hand to his chest, as the fragile invader inside him halted with one final beat, slowly shattering into 1000 barbed pieces. Now he knew #pain as each illusory shard, like broken glass, cut deeper.
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Thank you so much, Daniel. I really appreciate your kind words 💜💜

She gathers us to her, the spurned and dispossessed. Like moths, we gravitate towards her benevolent flame, seeking protection from the dark. We were nothing, but her kindness became our salvation and we shelter beneath the beauty of her #soul, a ragtag army of the forgotten.
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Hopefully so! Thank you 😉

Flaming torches lit the dark walls of the main hall, throwing up freakish #shadows of the macabre cast within. Savage gargoyles glowered through smoky air, as black-eyed demons waltzed to the haunting melody of the harp’s last dance. Ravi held Elice in his arms like the room was empty.
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Thank you 💜

Midnight #soothed the violent winds, leaving an eerie stillness broken by the sound of snapping twigs & dead leaves blowing along the dusty roads of the deserted village. Abandonment turned empty alleyways into a playground for ghosts & spectres, howling as they flew.
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Thank you ❤️

Unlike my sister, I have no craft. My bow is my weapon, my aim deadly. In the Demon Realms, you shoot to kill.

My arrow struck him without leaving the #quiver, piercing his armour and burying itself deep inside his heart. Not all magic is gifted to witches.
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Long ago, tiny fire fae were revered and sought out for their wisdom. Then came the years of bloodshed and the fae were hunted for their gift. #Slipping quietly away, hiding in the mists, they watched as the land slowly died and when called upon again, they remembered.
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Bitter poison #drizzled slowly from the silver flask, rolling tiny beads like mercury across the stone floor. Merging, they forged an emerald serpent, spitting angrily as it slithered boldly towards her. Nyrinore laughed as her clawed hand placed the empty flask over the creature’s head.
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When I #unmoored you from your chains in Hell and the burning gates stood open, I stoically awaited your return from the bloody feast. Lust for power, an intoxicating hunger, lured you from your lord and master and saw you stray, but you’ll be back. They always come back ... and I can wait.
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I think my cat is broken! 😂😂

Thank you so much, Bethany ❤️❤️

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A staccato clip of hoofs echoed across the stone floor,air frigid as King entered the chamber.He was in a black mood,anger palpable & suffocating.Feral eyes rested on each in turn.Muluhm hesitated,hating himself,reluctantly lowering his head in deference until King’s angry glare #veered away
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