Let's Write! Daily Findings

Almost Lost My Spoons

Let's Write! Daily Findings

Findings for this week's prompt!

Aleila motioned for the crowd of young people to draw closer, using her fingers in a tantalizing manner. “But, it was just the trees in the wind,” she whispered in her scariest voice.  

The crowd of younger kids shivered and a few squealed with fright.

Aleila was really good at telling scary stories. The kids of the Thunder Tribe loved her stories. She made them sound so real. However, she never told scary jump stories, like Kiryu always asked her to. She said they weren’t her storytelling style.

“Really?” a young girl asked Aleila. “Was it really just the tree in the wind?”

Aleila grinned. “That’s the mystery, isn’t it.”

The firelight glinted off her teeth and her face was thrown into shadow for a moment, making her appear extremely spooky. Her slight fangs gleamed in the light from the moon and her icy green eyes glowed a bit. The wind picked up and her hair floated around her head like she was underwater.

For a moment, she looked like the evil spirit from her story. Then, the clouds uncovered the moon and she returned to normal.

“Ms Aleila, you’re so scary!” One of the older boys grinned, though it betrayed his fright.

“Now, off to bed. The lot of you,” Aleila said, smiling. She ushered the kids away from the circle they’d been sitting in for the story, towards their respective houses.

“Where are you going, Ms Aleila?” a small voice asked from her side.

Aleila looked down to her hip and saw a small floating orb that glowed a light green sitting just out of sight of the tribes’ camp.  

“Elux? What are you doing here?”

“Looking for you. When you didn’t come home, Ulahi sent us out to find you.”

“Aleila!”

Aleila looked wildly around and shuffled the orb away from her. “I can’t go back now. My master’s calling me.”

“You need to come home!” Elux insisted, trying to stick by Aleila’s side.

“I can’t! I have a Master!”

“Wait… you have a master?”

“Yes,” Aleila said, exasperated. “What part of ‘I can’t! I have a Master’ don’t you understand?”

“Who?”

“You should go invisible and you’ll find out,” Aleila said, continuing to shuffle the orb away.

The orb shot her a glare and vanished in a puff of light.

“Aleila!”

“Yes?” Aleila rounded the corner of a hut and saw Yusei jogging towards her.

“Where’ve you been?”

“Telling stories,” Aleila said, a small smile appearing across her lips in memory.

Yusei reached for her wrist and Aleila allowed him to grab it. As he dragged her away, Yusei thought about what questions he could ask to get her to tell him what stories she’d been telling.

Since Yusei’d untied her, Aleila had been really obedient in following him around. She understood well what her role as a slave was. However, sometimes the kids of the Tribe stole her away to tell stories around the campfire.

After the first scare, Yusei knew where to look for her if he couldn’t find her by his side.

“Which story did you tell this time?” he asked as they neared his house.

“A scary one,” Aleila muttered. “It was about the heritage of the Wind Tribe… though I didn’t tell them that…”

“The origin story of the Wind Tribe is a scary one?” Yusei asked, turning his head to glance back at Aleila.

“Well, I bent the details a bit…” she murmured as she followed Yusei into his house. “You hungry?” she asked, rather suddenly.

Tomorrow I will post about the third part of the basics of building a character.

Thanks and have a pleasant day!

Tay Alexiel

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