1. Ariel Harmless

    Dare Mirror, Mirror

    The frog leapt. With a sudden, wet thump, it sprung from it's place on the floor and landed right between them, just shy of Rovias’ pooled robes. Its throat pulsed, its small black eyes catching candlelight, and it let out a low croak. And then it began to nose beneath Rovias’ velvet robe, with...
  2. Ariel Harmless

    Dare Mirror, Mirror

    Ariel sat like a child beside him, but it was no child’s gaze she gave him. The jester shifted, a slow, sinuous motion, rising from her child’s sprawl to her knees, spine as straight as a blade as she was kneeling at his feet. One pale hand reached across her chest, fingers splayed. She looked...
  3. Ariel Harmless

    Dare Mirror, Mirror

    “Sense is a gate, and gates have guards. But nonsense? That slips past like fog in graveyards.” Ariel laughed. Not loud, no. Quiet. Like someone giggling during a sermon. Her frog shifting in its patchwork den. “I dream in screams and comet tails, and wake up weeping blood and snails. They...
  4. Ariel Harmless

    Dare Mirror, Mirror

    Her head tilted, one way, then the other, like a marionette remembering how to move. She didn’t simply stand still, she balanced. She rocked from her toes back to her heels. Ariel watched the grey ember glitter fall from his pipe. Without a word, she reached out. The pale middle finger on her...
  5. Ariel Harmless

    Dare Mirror, Mirror

    The smell of stagnant water pushed against the lavender smoke inside The Black Rose like a wrong note in a song. The slim figure did not come alone, but was accompanied by notes. Bells. Not the soft bells of a dancer, not the singing bells of a priest, but the wicked bells of a jester. Standing...
  6. Ariel Harmless

    Ariel Harmless (wip)

    "I make kings laugh and corpses twitch... Sometimes it’s hard to tell which."
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