Shruti went into the snow and this story is about that: a story about some fear (and Shruti and the snow and everything I just wrote)

written 'in character' by mallegra for online roleplaying game castle marrach

Hello my name is book and I am a story about some fear and scary moments that happened one time in a story which is this one well it is about a lady who is called Shruti and she is very fancy with nice skin that is all toasted looking and some eyes that she uses to look at things and she is semi-formal so she wears a lot of ribbons and is very nice and everyone likes her in the castle that she lives in and she is also a magic person who is called sorceress and she was very new to the castle and did not know very much about things like why it was cold or why she wasn’t allowed to go outside of the castle even though everyone liked how nice she was and wanted to be her friend because she would give them some pieces of candy that she knew where to

get (from a cook) and she carried them sometimes tied up in ribbons that were on her dress and all thumping around her legs and ankles and she was excited about the ice that was everywhere because she had not ever seen it before you’d better believe it and there was some stuff that was all over everything outside that they said was called snow and she was a very stupid (from not having experience not from being other kinds of stupid don’t be rude about her) lady and wanted to know all about the nature and go and be in it and there was a navy that was made of some boats that were very far away and the navy men would get to leave the castle and go over a long very big valley to wherever the ocean was because you couldn’t see it and Shruti

kept asking if she could go with the navy to see outside of the castle and some nature and they said why and she didn’t know she just had a secret feeling that she wanted to see it that she didn’t know how to explain about very good and they would always say no especially her favorite navy man who was called Kewlhula and had two noses one that was on both cheeks on his face and none in the center of his face but this is a fear story not a romance story this time because you asked for fear stories so they are not going to be in love but instead very good friends I think so Kewlhula was in charge of the navy and the boats and things and he would always say “No Shruti you can’t come outside of the castle because it is very dangerous

and you will get cold and die even we do not go out when it is so cold and ice like this” and Shruti would very sadly give him some candy but one day she did something very bad which was to use her magic on him to make him change his mind and say “ok Shruti you can come with us over the valley to see where the boats are and see some snow maybe” and to do the magic she had to put all of her concentration into a little piece of candy that she kept in her purse that was tied onto one of her ribbons but it was not really candy it was made of marble which is a kind of good rock and she never gave that piece of candy away and she felt very bad about how she had tricked Kewlhula with her magic to say yes but she felt more good than bad

because of how she got what she wanted so that was fine and there was a small amount of people who were coming to go out of the castle and into the valley to find where the sea was outside of the valley and Shruti was very proud and happy to be walking with them with her big warm coat made out of a furry animal with very long hair and they walked out into the outside and closed the castle up and walked for a long time and it got dark and cold and then morning again and everyone was having a nice time except for their feet were hurting but Shruti would do a spell so that their feet didn’t hurt anymore except for when she was asleep but then they were all asleep too in a pile and did not feel it anyway because of how they were not awake

and the next morning when they were awake again Kewlhula made some food out of a package he had and Shruti did not like it very much because it was not very fancy or good like she was used to but she still had lots of candy so she ate some of that and Kewlhula looked up at the sky and said “we have to walk faster because the bad weather is coming we do not normally go out to be in the navy this time of year” and Shruti felt very guilty for doing magic on them and didn’t say anything except for “ok Kewlhula” and they packed up and started walking again and went very much further into the valley before the men went all quiet and stopped because they could tell something was different and they looked up and snow started coming down

onto their faces very cold and the men said “oh no” and Shruti said “hooray some snow!” and was very happy and danced around with the candy tied to her ribbons bouncing all over her body and her purse slapping into her side but then she looked at everyone else and they looked scared and said “quickly we need to make another camp” and they moved very fast to build a little place and all the time that they were doing that the white stuff was coming out of the sky faster and faster and at first when someone stepped in it you could see their print of their foot but then it got filled up and Shruti could not tell where anyone had been and then a wind started up that was very cold and blowy and they tried to make a fire but everything was cold

and wet and their teeth were making lots of noise but nobody could hear it anyway over the wind and the fire would not stay around even though Shruti was making herself very tired lighting it again and again with magic and it now she could not see the castle where they had come from or where they were going everything was just very white and it made her feel a little bit of panicking not to know what direction anything was in and the snow that was so pretty when it started coming down out of the sky was going onto her clothes and into her big coat and melting and making her go wet and shaking and everyone just hunched together under a bit of fabric and sticks that they had found and they waited and waited and their hands went numb but

Shruti still felt a little bit excited at the adventure because she knew that the navy people would take care of her and not let anything bad to her because of how fancy she was and she went to sleep but when she woke up the person next to her was all stiff and frozen and dead and the world was very scary and strange because there was no sound except some wind but everything else was muffled up from being covered and she couldn’t see anyone except dead people and didn’t know where Kewlhula was so she yelled out for him but her voice did not go very far so she took her marble candy out of her purse with her fingers that were turning blue and red and scried for him and she crawled out into the snow that was very deep and called again

and it was still coming down out of the sky and she stomped through the snow that was close to their camp thinking that she knew where she was going but when she turned around her path had been filled up with snow and there was nothing but white in her eyes and she could not even tell where she had come from and she yelled out but everyone at the camp was dead and when she made a noise the wind stole it out of her mouth and snatched it away and nobody could even hear her anyway and she hurried faster but didn’t know where she was going and she clutched her marble bit tighter but her fingers were going numb and she turned her head around everywhere and then slowed down to try and conserve her powers because every time

she scried it made her more tired and she started to cry but she could not move like normal because when she tried to go slow her legs just jerked around because of how cold they were and her coat did not have ribbons made onto it but it was turning into ribbons from being so matted and wet and sharp icicles were growing on it and she sobbed and fell down and dropped her piece of marble and then it was lost in the snow and she gasped because of how that was part of her soul and very important and she started digging through the snow to try and find it but she couldn’t feel anything and her hands hurt very badly and the red that was on them was turning a little bit to black and she screamed “KEWLHULA HELP ME SOMEONE HELP ME

ABOUT IT” but nobody came and she didn’t know any purple princess that could pop into the air and help her because that is a different castle and mountain and not this mountain she couldn’t do magic to port herself back to the camp where it was a bit more dry or to go back to the castle that had roofs to get warm underneath and a nice dog somewhere to hug she might never find her little bit of marble candy again and she might die about that and she would especially die if she couldn’t find the dry place again but she didn’t want to leave where she had lost her bit of soul and she didn’t know what to do and cried some more but on her face the wet turned straight into ice and she tried to stick her hands inside of her clothes to make them warmer

but she couldn’t make her hands do what she wanted them to anymore and there was a feeling that she had never felt before which was dread and panic and fear and hunger and being tired and needing the toilet and premonition of doom and it was all felt at the same time in one big feeling and it was so scary she felt it in her throat and made a choking sound and then she heard a faint shout and went very still trying to listen then she heard where it was coming from and started running jerkily and her sob turned into a laugh that hurt her throat and a shadow appeared in the white in front of her and turned into Kewlhula as she got closer and he said “are you ok” and she nodded and he said “everyone else died from how cold it is” and she agreed

and said “I lost my focus” and he sniffed his two noses from cold and told her she was very stupid but they would have to come back when the snow melted and find it and they went back to the bit of fabric that was hanging over some sticks like a tent and rolled the dead bodies so they were like a wall and sat behind them and Shruti felt very sick and tired and incomplete and cold not sit straightly and Kewlhula looked at her hands and said that they had to be chopped off because they got too cold and she cried and cried and he took a knife out of his belt and chopped a bit of her fingers off but they didn’t even bleed because they were already dead on her and the pieces of finger fell into her lap and looked very weird there and he chopped a bit

further and she screamed and started bleeding everywhere and he said “sorry” and she never stopped bleeding for the rest of her entire life and it stopped snowing but they decided to go back over the snow to the castle instead of to find the boat and she walked behind her friend still bleeding and it all dripped onto the snow that had falled down and it looked very bright on the snow and he made her walk faster because of how wolves might come if they sniffed it and he knew this because he could smell it very strongly with his two noses and the further she walked away from the place where she had lost her candy the more gray and wrinkly she looked but she knew she could follow the trail of blood because the snow would melt but blood

doesn’t melt and when they got back to the castle where they lived she said “at last” in a very quiet whispery voice and said “I saw it” and they opened the door and she dropped down dead the end except for if it needs to be more scary and about fear in this story I think she turned into a ghost the end.